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Using Proliance's Languages feature, you can customize the system-wide label text that appears on pages, tabs, sections and data fields. To Proliance administrators, label text that appears in the WebUI is generally referred to as nomenclature: a set of terms that are specific to a language, dialect or business domain.
Proliance administrators can choose which nomenclatures are available in particular work areas (Org, Portfolio and Workspace), and individual users can choose which of these they prefer for their own display. If a user's language preferences do not match the nomenclatures available for a work area, a default nomenclature is displayed instead.
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Customizing Nomenclatures
Proliance nomenclatures are used to present alternative languages and determine how menus are structured in the Proliance WebUI. You can create and customize Proliance nomenclatures using the Proliance Local Admin application to generate a customizable nomenclature spreadsheet, and Microsoft Excel to make your changes to the resulting spreadsheet. Once you have completed customizing the nomenclature spreadsheet, you can apply it to Proliance using the Proliance Local Admin import functionality.
A nomenclature spreadsheet contains a list of all user interface elements, mapped according to the resource IDs that appear when you enter Ctrl +Alt+Shift+T in the Proliance WebUI. For each resource ID in the nomenclature spreadsheet, you can add a column that corresponds to a particular nomenclature set. Within each spreadsheet column, you can add customized terms or translations for each resource ID, or a specialized syntax for menus items.
Each column in the nomenclature spreadsheet is mapped to a particular work area and language code using the following syntax:
[Language Code]:[Org name]/[Portfolio Name]/[Workspace Name]
For example:
[en-US]:[MyOrg]/[MyPortfolio]/[MyWorkspace]
The language code corresponds to a language display name that appears in the Proliance WebUI. For the example above, 'en-US' will appear as 'English - United States' in a user's My Preferences dialog when they select their preferred display languages.
Managing Languages
In the Proliance WebUI, nomenclatures are referred to as 'Languages'. In order for a language to be visible in the Proliance Web UI, the following conditions must be met for each defined language:
In the Organization work area, languages and default languages are managed using the Languages register. To manage languages in the Portfolio and Workspace work areas, use the Language page in each work area's Properties document.
User Preferred Languages
Each user can designate one or more languages as their preferred languages. Users can rank these selected languages according to their most preferred language to their least preferred. If a work area supports a language that matches the most preferred language for a user, that language will be displayed whenever that user enters the work area. If the user's most preferred language does not match any available language for the work area, the second most preferred language will be displayed. This process continues until a user's preferred language matches an available language for the work area. If there is no match, then the work area's default language will be displayed for that user.
For more information on choosing your preferred languages, see "Product Language Preferences".