diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 61506ba870..28da3e53c8 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ The runtime UI stack for generated applications: they render as a self-contained
 - **Date/time widgets need conversion both ways.** The form `toPayload()` turns an HTML `date`/`datetime-local` value into a full ISO instant (`…Z`) so a Jackson `java.time.Instant`/`Timestamp` field binds (empty→`null`, a bare `TIME` passes through); `toDateInput()` slices the backend's ISO value back to what the widget expects on edit. Mirrors the AngularJS stack's `new Date(value)`.
 - **Master-detail is registry-driven.** A master page renders one `detailPanel` per `App.detailsFor(<master>)` entry; each detail self-registers via `App.registerDetail(...)` (relative `apiPath`), so masters never enumerate details at generation time. The detail list filters via the controller's `?<masterEntityId>=<id>` query (built into the reused rest-java controller for `*_DETAILS` layouts).
 - **The `.form` runs the existing AngularJS `code` via compat shims, and the page is self-contained.** `template-form-builder-harmonia` runs the `.form` `code` as the body of `formController(ctx)` (`ctx.{model, params, http, task, notify, close}`) and defines `$scope`/`$http`/`NotificationHub`/`DialogHub` shims so intent-generated AngularJS `.form` code runs **unchanged** (no migration needed). The page loads only `form.js` + its own minimal fetch client (no `window.App`), because a BPM task form opens standalone in an iframe where the SPA shell assets are absent — an earlier `../../js/...` reference 404'd and left `App` undefined.
+- **A standalone page must bootstrap `App.config.projectName` before loading `i18n.js`, or every module-authored label silently stays English.** `i18n.js` reads the project namespace off `App.config.projectName` — which only the SPA shell sets — and without it fetches just the platform `application-core` chrome catalog, so the page's own `<tprefix>.t.*` keys never resolve. The failure is invisible: the baked English literals render, no console error, and every shell page around the iframe IS translated. Both standalone pages (the report page and, since [#6692](https://github.com/eclipse-dirigible/dirigible/issues/6692), the task form) therefore set it in a one-line inline script before the `<script src=".../services/i18n.js">`. Two more rules the task-form conversion paid for: a value that is MATCHED against data (a status step's `label`, compared to the record's status) stays untranslated and gets a separate translated `title`, and an authored label must be escaped where it is interpolated into a `T()` call — **both the literal and the key derived from it**, since `translationId` strips only spaces and `_ . :`, so an apostrophe would close the JS string and break the whole Alpine expression.
 - **Intent glue handlers are self-describing `@Component`s, not class-level `@Listener`/`@Scheduled`.** Those SDK annotations are `@Target(METHOD)`; the rollup/notification/integration/job templates in `template-application-events-java` were converted to `@Component implements MessageHandler/JobHandler` with `destination()`/`kind()`/`cron()` (matching the Trigger template) — class-level use fails `javac` with "annotation interface not applicable".
 - **The full-stack model template MUST merge the schema layer.** `template.js` = `template-application-schema` + REST-java + Harmonia UI. The client-Java `JavaEntityManager` only *registers* an `@Entity` against an existing table — it never CREATES one; `TableCreateProcessor` (the schema sync) does. Drop the schema and a freshly generated app has **no tables** → CRUD + CSVIM seeds fail ("Table metadata was not found for table [...]"). It only *looked* fine when a prior AngularJS/schema generation had already created them ("table kept in place").
 - **Process trigger writes ProcessId via a targeted single-column update (no event, no full row).** Starting a process on `onCreate` writes the instance id back; doing it through the normal `update()` republishes `<entity>-updated` and spuriously fires every onUpdate reaction (e.g. the member-email notification fired the instant a loan was created) — and even the silent `updateWithoutEvent()` was a **full-row merge of the trigger's stale snapshot**, which raced concurrent writes (line items recalculating the header totals milliseconds after create, a start-step status set) and silently reverted them. The trigger now uses `repository.updateProperty(id, "ProcessId", processId)` — an SDK `JavaRepository`/`JavaEntityStore` HQL mutation touching only the named column (same for a minted `businessKeyStrategy` field); no audit stamping, no events, nothing else to clobber. `updateProperty` is the sanctioned workflow/system write-back primitive — reserve it for system columns; user data keeps going through the generated repository's normal write path. The trigger guard is `ProcessId != null && !isBlank()` (an empty string from a form must not count as "already started").
diff --git a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/README.md b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/README.md
index f0adf7ec47..4fbfba4719 100644
--- a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/README.md
+++ b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/README.md
@@ -63,13 +63,40 @@ runs unchanged. New forms can still be authored directly against the neutral `ct
   input-time, input-color, button, and one level of `container-hbox` / `container-vbox`.
 - **Fallback:** any other `controlId` (image, input-documents, input-combobox/select/radio
   with feeds, table, stepIndicator, progress) renders as a labelled text input with a TODO.
-- **Assets (self-contained):** the page loads only `form.js` + the Harmonia/Alpine/Lucide
-  webjars. `form.js` carries its own minimal fetch client (`harmoniaHttp`), so the form does
-  **not** depend on the SPA shell's `window.App`. This matters because a BPM task form is
-  opened standalone (an iframe/dialog with `?taskId=&processInstanceId=`), where the shell
+- **Assets (self-contained):** the page loads `form.js` + the Harmonia/Alpine/Lucide webjars,
+  plus the two shared shell services it reuses by **absolute** URL (`services/format.js` and
+  `services/i18n.js`). `form.js` carries its own minimal fetch client (`harmoniaHttp`), so the
+  form does **not** depend on the SPA shell's `window.App`. This matters because a BPM task form
+  is opened standalone (an iframe/dialog with `?taskId=&processInstanceId=`), where the shell
   assets are not present at a predictable relative path (an earlier `../../js/...` reference
   404'd and left `App` undefined).
 
+## Labels come from the form's own catalog
+
+The same generation that renders the page emits its translation catalog
+(`i18n/en-US/<form>.form.json`, keyed by the form's `<tprefix>`), and the page consumes it: the
+title, the field labels, the button captions and the status steps all bind through
+`T('<project>:<tprefix>.t.<id>', '<English literal>')`, and the two submit outcome messages
+through the catalog's `dialogs` section. Everything is resolved at generation time — the
+translation id was assigned to the model by the catalog-emitting pass, so nothing is derived
+in the browser — and an untranslated key degrades to the baked English literal.
+
+Two things a change here must preserve:
+
+- **The page is standalone, so it bootstraps its own catalog namespace.** `i18n.js` reads
+  `App.config.projectName`, which the SPA shell would normally provide; the form (like the
+  standalone report page) sets it in a one-line inline script before loading the translator.
+  Without it only the platform `application-core` chrome catalog is fetched and every
+  module-authored label silently stays English — which is exactly the bug
+  ([#6692](https://github.com/eclipse-dirigible/dirigible/issues/6692)) this replaced.
+- **A status step's `label` stays untranslated; its `title` is the translated one.** The active
+  step is found by matching the record's status value against `label`, so translating that
+  would leave every step inactive.
+
+An authored label may contain an apostrophe, which would close the JS string literal the `T()`
+call sits in and break the whole Alpine expression, so both the interpolated literal **and the
+key derived from it** are escaped (`$SQ`/`$ESCSQ` in `index.html.template`).
+
 ## Follow-ups
 - Feed-driven widgets (combobox/select/radio with `feeds`), documents, table, stepIndicator.
 - Optionally have `FormIntentGenerator` emit neutral `ctx` handlers directly (the compat
diff --git a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/form.js.template b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/form.js.template
index 3042bcccb6..d195fa4906 100644
--- a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/form.js.template
+++ b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/form.js.template
@@ -174,7 +174,9 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
       console.warn('[form] no handler for callback', callback);
     },
 
-    // Generic submit for forms declaring a metadata URL and no explicit handler.
+    // Generic submit for forms declaring a metadata URL and no explicit handler. The two outcome
+    // messages come from this form's own catalog (the `dialogs` section the translate action emits,
+    // where successMsg carries the form's authored success text), falling back to the literals.
     async submit() {
       const url = '${metadata.url}';
       if (!url) return;
@@ -182,10 +184,11 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
       try {
         await harmoniaHttp.post(url, this.model);
         this.state = 'success';
-        this.message = 'Submitted.';
+        this.message = window.T ? T('$projectName:${tprefix}.dialogs.successMsg', 'Submitted.') : 'Submitted.';
       } catch (e) {
+        const failed = window.T ? T('$projectName:${tprefix}.dialogs.errorTitle', 'Submit failed.') : 'Submit failed.';
         this.state = 'error';
-        this.message = (e && e.message) || 'Submit failed.';
+        this.message = (e && e.message) || failed;
       }
     },
 
diff --git a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/index.html.template b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/index.html.template
index 487b6d1916..70864c795c 100644
--- a/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/index.html.template
+++ b/components/template/template-form-builder-harmonia/src/main/resources/META-INF/dirigible/template-form-builder-harmonia/ui/index.html.template
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+## An apostrophe in an authored label would close the JS string literal a T() call sits in and break
+## the whole Alpine expression, so every interpolated label goes through .replace($SQ, $ESCSQ) - the
+## translation KEY included, since it is derived from the label and only spaces and _ . : are stripped
+## out of it. Built from a single-quoted (non-interpolated) backslash so no literal escaping is
+## assumed of VTL.
+#set($SQ = "'")
+#set($BS = '\')
+#set($ESCSQ = "${BS}${SQ}")
+## Every author-facing label resolves through this form's own catalog (i18n/<locale>/<form>.form.json,
+## key <tprefix>.t.<id>), falling back to the English literal baked in here. The id was assigned to
+## the model by the catalog-emitting generation pass, so nothing is derived at runtime - and a label
+## the pass did not key (a hand-authored form control without a label) keeps the element's own text.
+#macro(tlabel $el)#if($el.translation) x-text="T('${projectName}:${tprefix}.t.${el.translation.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)}', '$!el.label.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)')"#end#end
 #macro(leaf $el)
 #if($metadata.taskForm && $el.readonly && $el.model)
         <!-- BPM task form: a read-only field renders as a detail cell - a muted label above its value,
@@ -8,7 +21,7 @@
              `customer.name` shows the customer's name here rather than the raw FK id. A number is
              formatted with its pattern (grouped, fixed decimals); other values render as-is. -->
         <div class="vbox gap-0">
-          <span x-h-text.muted class="text-xs">$!el.label</span>
+          <span x-h-text.muted class="text-xs"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</span>
 #if($el.controlId == "input-number")
           <span x-h-text class="text-sm break-words" x-text="fmtNumber(model.$el.model, '$!el.pattern')"></span>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-date" || $el.controlId == "input-datetime-local" || $el.controlId == "input-time" || $el.controlId == "input-month")
@@ -18,34 +31,34 @@
 #end
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "header")
-        <h1 x-h-text.h3 class="mb-2 col-span-full text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight">$!el.label</h1>
+        <h1 x-h-text.h3 class="mb-2 col-span-full text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</h1>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "paragraph")
-        <p x-h-text class="col-span-full">$!el.label</p>
+        <p x-h-text class="col-span-full"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</p>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "line")
         <hr x-h-separator class="col-span-full" />
 #elseif($el.controlId == "spacer")
         <div class="flex-1"></div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "link")
-        <a x-h-button data-variant="link" href="$!el.url">$!el.label</a>
+        <a x-h-button data-variant="link" href="$!el.url"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</a>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-textarea")
         <div x-h-field class="col-span-full">
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <textarea x-h-textarea id="$el.id" rows="4" x-model="model.$el.model"#if($el.readonly) readonly#end></textarea>
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-number")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <!-- step="any": without it the browser default step=1 rejects fractional input on number fields. -->
           <div x-h-input-number><input type="number" step="any" id="$el.id" x-model.number="model.$el.model"#if($el.readonly) readonly#end /></div>
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-checkbox")
         <div x-h-field data-orientation="horizontal">
           <span x-h-checkbox><input type="checkbox" id="$el.id" x-model="model.$el.model"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end /></span>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-date")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <div x-h-date-picker>
             <input type="text" id="$el.id"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end />
             <button x-h-date-picker-trigger aria-label="Choose date"></button>
@@ -54,7 +67,7 @@
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-datetime-local")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <div x-h-datetime-picker>
             <input type="text" id="$el.id"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end />
             <button x-h-datetime-picker-trigger aria-label="Choose date and time"></button>
@@ -63,7 +76,7 @@
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-time")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <div x-h-time-picker>
             <input type="text" x-h-time-picker-input id="$el.id" x-model="model.$el.model"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end />
             <div x-h-time-picker-popup></div>
@@ -71,7 +84,7 @@
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-month")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <div x-h-month-picker>
             <input type="text" id="$el.id"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end />
             <button x-h-month-picker-trigger aria-label="Choose month"></button>
@@ -80,7 +93,7 @@
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-week")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <div x-h-week-picker>
             <input type="text" id="$el.id"#if($el.readonly) disabled#end />
             <button x-h-week-picker-trigger aria-label="Choose week"></button>
@@ -89,15 +102,15 @@
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "input-color")
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <input x-h-input type="color" id="$el.id" x-model="model.$el.model"#if($el.readonly) readonly#end />
         </div>
 #elseif($el.controlId == "button")
-        <button x-h-button#if($el.type == "emphasized") data-variant="primary"#elseif($el.type) data-variant="$el.type"#end type="button"#if($el.callback) @click="run('$el.callback')"#elseif($el.isSubmit) @click="submit()"#end>$!el.label</button>
+        <button x-h-button#if($el.type == "emphasized") data-variant="primary"#elseif($el.type) data-variant="$el.type"#end type="button"#if($el.callback) @click="run('$el.callback')"#elseif($el.isSubmit) @click="submit()"#end#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</button>
 #else
         <!-- TODO (forms v2): widget '$!el.controlId' not yet rendered in Harmonia -->
         <div x-h-field>
-          <label x-h-label for="$!el.id">$!el.label</label>
+          <label x-h-label for="$!el.id"#tlabel($el)>$!el.label</label>
           <input x-h-input type="text" id="$!el.id" x-model="model.$!el.model"#if($el.readonly) readonly#end />
         </div>
 #end
@@ -152,14 +165,16 @@
         <hr class="col-span-full mb-4" style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid var(--border);" />
         <!-- Document status flow, extracted from the intent (the bound entity's function: EntityStatus
              relation -> the status entity's non-terminal seeds, in order). Read-only (non-interactive);
-             active step = the current status name (model.$metadata.statusVar). -->
-        <nav x-h-step-indicator="([#foreach($s in $metadata.steps){ label: '$s.label' }#if($foreach.hasNext), #end#end]).findIndex(s => s.label === model.${metadata.statusVar}) + 1" data-orientation="horizontal" class="col-span-full mb-4">
-          <template x-for="(step, i) in [#foreach($s in $metadata.steps){ label: '$s.label', description: '$!s.description' }#if($foreach.hasNext), #end#end]" :key="step.label">
+             active step = the current status name (model.$metadata.statusVar).
+             `label` stays the untranslated seed name because it is what the record's status value is
+             MATCHED against; `title` is the same name resolved through the catalog and is what shows. -->
+        <nav x-h-step-indicator="([#foreach($s in $metadata.steps){ label: '$s.label.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)' }#if($foreach.hasNext), #end#end]).findIndex(s => s.label === model.${metadata.statusVar}) + 1" data-orientation="horizontal" class="col-span-full mb-4">
+          <template x-for="(step, i) in [#foreach($s in $metadata.steps){ label: '$s.label.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)', title: #if($s.translation)T('${projectName}:${tprefix}.t.${s.translation.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)}', '$s.label.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)')#{else}'$s.label.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)'#end, description: #if($s.description)'$s.description.replace($SQ, $ESCSQ)'#{else}''#end }#if($foreach.hasNext), #end#end]" :key="step.label">
             <div x-h-step-indicator-item="i + 1">
               <button x-h-step-indicator-trigger data-non-interactive="true" type="button">
                 <span x-h-step-indicator-marker x-text="i + 1"></span>
                 <span x-h-step-indicator-content>
-                  <span x-h-step-indicator-title x-text="step.label"></span>
+                  <span x-h-step-indicator-title x-text="step.title"></span>
                   <span x-h-step-indicator-description x-show="step.description" x-text="step.description"></span>
                 </span>
               </button>
@@ -239,6 +254,12 @@
     <!-- The single shared value formatter (dates/numbers). Self-contained + dependency-free, so it loads
          by absolute URL even in the standalone task-form iframe where the shell assets are absent. -->
     <script src="/services/web/application-core/shell/js/services/format.js"></script>
+    <!-- i18n: the shared shell translator (window.T + the Alpine i18n store), which serves the labels,
+         the status steps and the submit messages from this form's own catalog. This page is standalone
+         (no SPA shell / app.js), so the catalog namespace is bootstrapped inline: i18n.js reads
+         App.config.projectName at load to fetch the project's catalogs next to 'application-core'. -->
+    <script>window.App = window.App || { config: {} }; App.config = App.config || {}; App.config.projectName = '$projectName';</script>
+    <script src="/services/web/application-core/shell/js/services/i18n.js"></script>
     <script src="./form.js"></script>
     <script defer src="/webjars/alpinejs/dist/cdn.min.js"></script>
     <script src="/webjars/codbex__harmonia/dist/harmonia.min.js"></script>
diff --git a/tests/tests-integrations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/dirigible/integration/tests/api/IntentEngineIT.java b/tests/tests-integrations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/dirigible/integration/tests/api/IntentEngineIT.java
index 1573be1d1b..2abfadae1a 100644
--- a/tests/tests-integrations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/dirigible/integration/tests/api/IntentEngineIT.java
+++ b/tests/tests-integrations/src/main/java/org/eclipse/dirigible/integration/tests/api/IntentEngineIT.java
@@ -2517,6 +2517,89 @@ private void assertSettings() {
                 "settings should default candidateGroupsExtra to ADMINISTRATOR");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void task_form_renders_its_labels_through_the_module_catalog() {
+        // A BPM task form is a standalone page (no SPA shell), which is why its content used to render
+        // in English while the shell pages around it were translated: it never loaded the translator and
+        // baked every label in as a literal. The catalog it needs is the one this same generation emits.
+        String yaml = """
+                name: invoices
+                entities:
+                  - name: InvoiceStatus
+                    kind: setting
+                    fields:
+                      - { name: id, type: integer, primaryKey: true, generated: true }
+                      - { name: name, type: string, required: true, length: 50 }
+                  - name: Invoice
+                    fields:
+                      - { name: id, type: integer, primaryKey: true, generated: true }
+                      - { name: number, type: string, required: true, length: 20 }
+                      - { name: total, type: decimal }
+                    relations:
+                      - { name: Status, kind: manyToOne, to: InvoiceStatus, function: EntityStatus, init: 1 }
+                processes:
+                  - name: InvoiceApproval
+                    trigger: { onCreate: Invoice }
+                    steps:
+                      - { name: approve, kind: userTask, args: { assignee: manager, form: ApproveInvoice } }
+                      - { name: decide, kind: decision, args: { if: "action == 'approve'", then: activate, else: cancel } }
+                      - { name: activate, kind: serviceTask, args: { setRelationField: Status, value: 2, next: done } }
+                      - { name: cancel, kind: serviceTask, args: { setRelationField: Status, value: 3, next: end } }
+                      - { name: done, kind: end }
+                forms:
+                  - name: ApproveInvoice
+                    forEntity: Invoice
+                    fields: [number, total]
+                    actions: [approve, reject]
+                seeds:
+                  - name: invoice-statuses
+                    entity: InvoiceStatus
+                    rows:
+                      - { id: 1, name: DRAFT }
+                      - { id: 2, name: APPROVED }
+                      - { id: 3, name: CANCELLED }
+                """;
+        writeIntent(yaml);
+        restAssuredExecutor.execute(() -> given().when()
+                                                 .post(GENERATE_URL)
+                                                 .then()
+                                                 .statusCode(200));
+        generateFromModel("template-form-builder-harmonia/template/template.js", "ApproveInvoice.form");
+
+        // The catalog the translate action emits, keyed by the form's own prefix: every label is in it.
+        String catalog = contentOf("i18n/en-US/ApproveInvoice.form.json");
+        assertTrue(catalog.contains("\"ApproveInvoice-form\""), "the catalog should be keyed by the form translation prefix");
+        assertTrue(catalog.contains("\"Number\": \"Number\"") && catalog.contains("\"Total\": \"Total\""),
+                "the field labels should land in the catalog, got: " + catalog);
+        assertTrue(catalog.contains("\"Approve\": \"Approve\"") && catalog.contains("\"Reject\": \"Reject\""),
+                "the action button captions should land in the catalog, got: " + catalog);
+        assertTrue(catalog.contains("\"DRAFT\": \"DRAFT\"") && catalog.contains("\"APPROVED\": \"APPROVED\""),
+                "the status step labels should land in the catalog, got: " + catalog);
+
+        // ... and the generated page consumes it: the translator is loaded with this project's namespace
+        // bootstrapped (the page has no window.App to read it from), and every label binds through T()
+        // with the English literal as the fallback.
+        String index = contentOf("gen/ApproveInvoice/forms/ApproveInvoice/index.html");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("/services/web/application-core/shell/js/services/i18n.js"),
+                "the standalone form must load the shared translator");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("App.config.projectName = '" + PROJECT + "'"),
+                "the form must bootstrap its catalog namespace - i18n.js reads it at load");
+        String prefix = "T('" + PROJECT + ":ApproveInvoice-form.t.";
+        assertTrue(index.contains("tracking-tight\" x-text=\"" + prefix), "the form title should resolve through the catalog");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("x-text=\"" + prefix + "Number', 'Number')\""), "a field label should resolve through the catalog");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("x-text=\"" + prefix + "Approve', 'Approve')\""),
+                "an action button caption should resolve through the catalog");
+        // The step's `label` stays the untranslated seed name - it is what the record's status value is
+        // matched against - and the displayed `title` is the translated one.
+        assertTrue(index.contains("title: " + prefix + "DRAFT', 'DRAFT')"), "a status step should carry its translated title");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("{ label: 'DRAFT'"), "the step label must stay untranslated for the active-status match");
+        assertTrue(index.contains("x-text=\"step.title\""), "the step indicator should render the translated title");
+
+        String formJs = contentOf("gen/ApproveInvoice/forms/ApproveInvoice/form.js");
+        assertTrue(formJs.contains("T('" + PROJECT + ":ApproveInvoice-form.dialogs.successMsg'"),
+                "the submit outcome messages should resolve through the catalog");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void settings_overrides_skip_generation_and_are_preserved() {
         writeIntent(INTENT_YAML);