Language Customization

Field Display Policies are available to customize the titles and descriptions of fields as they appear on the GUI, tooltips and context sensitive on-line help for fields. Administrators with sufficient permissions have access to existing Field Display Policies that can be cloned, modified and associated with menu items.

This method to customize the GUI also affects a translated GUI. While a translated system will include translations of pre-installed Field Display Policies, any customization of these by an administrator will impact the text on the GUI as follows:

  • If a customized string does not exist in the installed translation database as a source language, then it will not be translated to the target language, but will display as entered. For example, if a custom Field Display Policy in the source language contains an updated field title called “User Firstname”, this string will remain untranslated on a target language GUI if this string is not available in the installed translation database.
  • Conversely, any existing custom Field Display Policies containing customized text that exists in the translation database, will be translated on the GUI.

The translation of text in custom Field Display Policies or cloned models such as menu layouts is supported. The custom strings can be submitted to your localization representative. Translations will be made available as template files that can be installed by an administrator who has access to the VOSS-4-UC Command Line Interface (CLI) and the app template command. The installed template files will update the translation database.

On-line help text is divided into two categories:

  1. Context-sensitive on-line help accessible from the Help icon on a form button bar.
  2. General Help that is available on the Help page as a General Help menu item.

Context-sensitive help shows the titles and descriptions of the corresponding GUI form. This information can also be modified by a Field Display Policy and is translated when the user language changes. In the case of US English, some context-sensitive Help pages also show additional topics that are available on the General Help menu. If the user language is not US English, these topics are not shown.

The topics on the General Help menu item are only available if the user’s language is US English. In other words, topics available from the General Help menu are not translated.