Manage the Customization of Individual Metadata String Translations

About the Localize <Strings> Window

You can use the Localize <Strings> window to translate the certain metadata strings that appear throughout the APM, where <Strings> indicates which string will be translated. When you translate a string in this way, you are creating a custom metadata string translation and adding it to a custom metadata string translation file.

The button appears throughout the APM. This button typically appears to the right side of text boxes in which you will type the string that you want to translate. The string that is displayed in that text box will always be the default string (that is, the language in which it will appear). If you see this button, you can translate that string. This button provide access to the Localize <Strings> window.

The title bar on the Localize <Strings> window will vary depending on your access point. For example, if you access the Localize <Strings> window from a Caption box for the Action family in the Configuration Manager, the title bar will contain Localize Action, where Action is the caption of the Action family.

The Localize <Strings> window contains the following items:
  • Default Value: A text box that contains the default string that was originally written and for which you can provide translations.
  • Culture: Contains the names of the languages whose metadata string translation file (custom or baseline) contains a translation for the default string. Each Culture cell contains a list of all the languages that are available in the APM system. You can select from this list the name of the language into which you want to translate the default string.
  • Value: Contains the translated string for the language that appears in the Culture cell in that row. This value is determined by the string that exists in either the custom or baseline metadata string translation files that are stored in the APM. You can enter a value directly in the Value cell. The combination of the translated string in the Value cell and the language specified in the Culture cell in that row make up the translation for the default string.
Note: If you create a custom metadata string translation for a language that is not currently available in APM, a custom metadata string translation file will be created for that language automatically. Additionally, APM will display any metadata string translation that exists in that file if your APM Culture setting corresponds to the translation file that is stored in the APM.
You can use the Localize <Strings> window to:

Access the Localize <Strings> Window

Procedure

The button appears throughout APM. Anywhere this button appears, select .
The Localize <Strings> window appears.

Add New Translations for Strings

About This Task

The following instructions provide details on creating a new translation for a string using the Localize <Strings> window. A new translation for a string is one that does not exist in a metadata string translation file.

After you add a new translation for a string in this way, the APM system will use your translation throughout APM.

Procedure

  1. Access the Localize <Strings> window from the string that you want to translate.
  2. In the Value column, select the cell for the appropriate language, and then enter the translation for the string.
  3. Select Save.
    The Localize <String> window closes and your changes are saved. The next time a user whose APM Culture corresponds to that language, will see the string that you have translated.

Modify Existing Translations for Strings

About This Task

An existing translation for a string is one that is currently stored in a metadata string translation file that exists in the APM. If you modify a translation that is stored in the baseline metadata string translation file, a custom metadata string translation file for that language will be updated automatically, or created automatically (if a translation file does not yet exist).

The following instructions provide details on using the Localize <String> window to modify an existing translation for a string that appears in the APM.

Note: If you are modifying translations in a language other than the one in which the string was originally created, if you modify the original translation, that change will not be saved. You cannot modify the default string.

After you modify an existing translation for a string, APM system will use your translation throughout the application.

Procedure

  1. Access the Localize <String> window from the string whose translation(s) you want to modify.
  2. In the grid, locate the rows containing the translations that you want to modify.
  3. In the Value column, as needed, modify the text specified against the Cultures.
  4. Select Save.
    The Localize <String> window closes, and your translations will be used throughout APM.