# Portal Texts

You can edit what staff read on the setup portal. The texts are stored **per language and per device**: you edit the texts of whichever language row you opened.

> **Where is this section?** **Captive Portal → Portal Language Settings**, then click a language in the list. On the language page you get a collapsible section headed **Staff Wi-Fi Texts**.

The badge next to the heading shows **how many texts are customised for this device** in that language. No badge means the language is running entirely on the ready-made texts.

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## 1. Text groups

- **Login form** — the welcome text, username and password labels, the sign-in and back buttons.
- **Status and error messages** — “please wait”, “installing”, empty or wrong username, timeout, user type not eligible, no staff record.
- **Setup result** — the screen after the file is produced: download button, certificate password and the time note.
- **Android steps** — six steps plus the *Identity* and *Domain* field labels.
- **Windows steps** — six steps.

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## 2. What leaving a field empty means

The grey hint inside each field **is the ready-made text for that language**. Leave the field empty and staff see that text. You do not have to fill in everything — write only what you want to say differently. Clear a field later and it returns to the ready-made text.

Field labels are shown **in the panel's own language**, so you can tell what you are filling in even when the language you are editing is another one.

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## 3. Saving

The section has its own **Save** button, **separate from the captive portal form**. Saving staff texts does not touch the captive settings, and the other way round. You get *Texts saved.* when it succeeds.

Each field holds up to **1000 characters**.

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## 4. Things to watch

- **Do not hard-code a server name.** The portal already produces the *Identity* and *Domain* values and shows them on screen; a value typed into the text by hand may be wrong.
- **Keep the step numbering intact.** The Android and Windows steps are read in order.
- **Follow your organisation's language.** Edit the row for whichever language most of your staff use first; the rest keep running on the ready-made texts.
- **If the section is not there**, either you do not have administrator rights, or the feature is not enabled on your device, or the language row you opened belongs to a different device.

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> **Related pages:** **Staff Wi-Fi Administration → Inviting Staff**; **Captive Portal → Portal Language Settings**.