# Control action translation and set chat metadata

**Summary:** Configure an action to skip translation, and set metadata on a conversation programmatically using the chatMetadata property.

**In short:** Finer control over translation and conversation metadata.

**Published:** 2024-12-30

- You can now configure an action to not translate. By default, actions are translated.
- If the chatMetadata property is set on Txt, it will automatically set metadata in the chat. You can use this if you want to programmatically set some metadata on the conversation (ie. name, email, etc.) which will appear on the conversation details in the dashboard.