The multilingual capability of Interprise Suite allows the business to effectively operate in many different languages. The multilingual options in the application are designed for the non technical type of user so that he may be able to configure the multilingual properties of the application even without programming skills or knowledge in related database concepts.
The following are the ways to implement multilingual settings to Interprise Suite:
- Default System Language
- Selling Language
- Field-level language settings
- User Role-based language settings
Default system
language
From setting up, the New Company Wizard of
Interprise Suite asks for a default system language to use for the
company database you are about to create. This default company
language is also used for user accounts as a default.
Note: The default company language cannot be modified however, a number of multilingual options exist in Interprise Suite to fine tune the application for the multilingual needs of your business.
See Also: Company Setup > Company Information
Selling Languages
Interprise Suite allows for the company to have as many selling
languages as they may need. The Selling Languages
menu item is a facility to include or exclude languages to use not
just for inventory item descriptions but also for the descriptions
of various module elements such as menu items, form sections and
grid header descriptions.
To include a language in the list of selling languages,
- Go to the Inventory Module.
- Select Selling Languages under the Setup menu. The Selling Language form will display.
- Simply click on the checkbox inside the Include column for the select language and save. The language would appear in Language fields.
For inventory items, you can choose to have a different inventory part description and extended description for every selling language or apply the description to all languages.
- From the New Item Wizard, you can select the default language to use the item. By default, the description in the selected language will be saved as the description for all the other languages.
- From the Item detail form, you can provide the item description for each selling language. To do this, select the language from the Language field and enter the description in the Item Description and Extended Description fields. Save to retain the description.
- To apply the default language to all, select the language from the Language field of the Item detail form then save. The description will then be applied to all other languages.
See Also: Inventory Setup > Selling Languages
Field-level Language
Settings
The Data Dictionary Tool is used by administrators
to define properties for each table, view, or column in Interprise
Suite including the multilingual properties of the same. For
example, you can change the Check field
description to Cheque when the system or user
language is set to English-United Kingdom. To do
this,
- Go to the System Manager module.
- Select the Manager Data Dictionary under the Tools menu folder. The Data Dictionary form will display.
- The Tables and View pane lists all tables in alphabetical order (tables in the data dictionary almost exclusively mean forms and views in Interprise Suite). Select a table by clicking on it once. The columns tab displays the columns (columns in the data dictionary almost exclusively mean fields) of the selected table (for or view) in the Tables and Views List.
- Select a column in the Columns tab by clicking on it once.
- In the Properties Pane, the default properties of the selected column are displayed.
- In the Multilingual section, you may add new display name for the field for each language used in Interprise Suite (or each language included in the Selling Languages). To add, select the language in the Language line and enter the description for this language in the Display Name line.
- Save by clicking on the Save button. Continue entering new descriptions for each language as needed.
See Also: Working with Data Dictionary > Modifying Existing Properties of Data Dictionary Objects
User-role based
language settings
User role based customizations, including the multilingual
preferences, can be applied in the application through the User
Role Control of Interprise Suite. The User Role
form allows you to define the multilingual description of
module elements such as menu items, dashboards, form and form
sections, grids, toolbar items etc.
To change the multilingual descriptions for these elements,
- Go to the System Manager module.
- Select the User Role menu item under the Tools menu. The User Role form will display.
- Select a module to apply the changes to. Double click on the module in the Selected Modules List. The module will display in "layout mode".
- To apply the language to the menus, forms and section within
the form and module dashboards, select a language from the
Language field.
Note: When renaming any of the module elements e.g. menus, forms or form sections, the language is then placed in the uppermost part of the list in the Multilingual Description Window. The descriptions and captions are saved in the selected language. The user can then see the new descriptions and captions if they are set up with the default language.
See Also: Working with the User Role > User role based customizations > Module Customization | Form Customization | Customizing the Form Section | Customizing the Grid Section | Customizing the Toolbar Menu | Dashboard Customization