Localizing forms

If your organization supports multiple languages, you can make forms available in multiple languages to enable users to work with forms in their own languages. You localize a form by exporting it and then creating a properties file for each locale that you want to support.

When you export a form, IBM® Operações de Marketing creates a form archive zip file that contains a form properties file for the form for your locale. You can create a copy of the properties file for each locale your organization supports and translate the group names, field names, descriptions, and help tips into the appropriate language for each locale. If the form uses lookup tables and the database contains localized versions of the lookup tables, you can edit the properties file for a locale to reference the correct lookup table for that locale.

Properties file names

Properties file names must be in the following form:

<form_name>_<locale>.properties

where <form_name> is the name of the form, and <locale> is a locale code. The following locale codes are recognized.

Code	Language
de_DE	German
en_GB	English (Great Britain)
en_US	English (United States)
es_ES	Spanish
fr_FR	French
it_IT	Italian
ja_JP	Japanese
ko_KR	Korean
pt_BR	Portuguese
ru_RU	Russian
zh_CN	Chinese

Example properties file

columngroup.group1.header=group1
columngroup.group1.description=first group
columngroup.offer.header=offer
columngroup.offer.description=second group
columngroup.offer2.header=offer
columngroup.offer2.description=third group
column.business_unit_id.label=Business Unit
column.business_unit_id.message= Business Unit is a mandatory field
column.business_unit_id.helptip= Business Unit is used for
column.init_type_id.label= Initiative Type
column.init_type_id.message= Initiative Type is a mandatory field
column.offer_codes.label=Offer Code(s)
column.effective_date.label=Effective Date
column.drop_date.label=Drop Date
column.business_unit_id.lookuptable=lkup_business_unit
tvccolumngroup.group1.header=group1
tvccolumngroup.group1.description=group1 description
tvccolumngroup.group1.helptip=group1 helptip
tvccolumn.tvc_not_used_ref_1.label=Single Marketing Object

Localizing forms by editing

You can also localize a form for a locale by having a user with that locale as his or her default locale open the form and manually edit the names and descriptions. When the user saves the form Operações de Marketing saves the translations entered by the user and they display for other users with that default locale. However, this process is more time consuming and is generally recommended only when the number of forms and the number of supported locales are small.

How IBM® Operações de Marketing determines the properties file to use

When a user displays a form, Operações de Marketing uses the properties file for the first locale in this list for which a properties file exists.

1.	user's locale

2.	default locale for the system

3.	locale in which the form was created

To localize a form