Internationalization of meta data

The following procedure describes how to localize a data dictionary element.

1. In the Manage Assets user interface, create a data dictionary.

2. Double-click the data dictionary.

3. In the Data Dictionary Editor dialog, click the Export Localization button .

   You can prompted to export the data dictionary definition to a .zip file.

4. Select a name and location for the exported .zip file.

5. On your file system, navigate to and extract out the contents of .zip file.

   The .zip file contains a .properties file. This file defines the exported data dictionary definition.

6. Open the .properties file in any text editor.

   The structure of the properties file defines one line each for the description and the display name for the data dictionary and each data dictionary element in the data dictionary. In addition, the properties file defines one line for an enum value set for each data dictionary element. As with a data dictionary, the corresponding properties file can have multiple data dictionary elements definitions. In addition, the file can contain the definitions for one or more enum value sets.

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   Extracted .properties file

7. To update the .properties file in a different locale, update the display name and description values in the file.

8. Save the updated file as:

   <Properties file name>_fr_FR.properties

   French

   <Properties file name>_de_DE.properties

   German

   <Properties file name>_ja_JA.properties

   Japanese

   <Properties file name>_en_EN.properties

   English

   You can create multiple .properties files for the data dictionary.

9. Archive the .properties file (or files for multiple locales) into a single .zip file.

10. In the Manage Assets user interface, double-click the data dictionary that you exported.

11. In the Data Dictionary Editor dialog, click the Import Localization button .

    You can prompted to import the .zip file.

12. Navigate to and select the .zip file containing the localized .properties files.

To view the localization changes, change your browser locale.

Use the above procedure to also localize Layout and Fragment Layout elements in the Manage Assets user interface.

When you localize the element meta data, the following changes are visible to your users:

Create Correspondence user interface

In the Data Capture pod (for both Content and Data view), when displaying unprotected data dictionary elements, the label, tool tip and options list (ENUM) of the specific user interface controls is localized using the localization information of that Data Dictionary Element.

Focus Area: The Focus Area (Target Area names) display is localized as per user locale.