See also:

• Translation Table
• Translate function
• Language
• Locale

What You Can Translate

For large organisations, you may need deploy a PhixFlow application across sites in different countries. You can configure some of the text in the application to be displayed in a different language.

PhixFlow cannot translate:

• Stream attributes in analysis models.
• The data in the stream.
• Layout component dynamic text, because this displays data from the stream.
• Grid view → Basic Settings → Name. This appears as the title of the grid when it appears in a layout or dashboard.
• In a grid view → attribute action → tooltip: if this includes the action display name, it is not translated.
• Number formats. 

What PhixFlow Does to Translate Text

When a user opens an application, PhixFlow goes through the following steps to determine which language to display:

1. PhixFlow checks the user's locale.
2. For source text in a translatable field in the application interface, PhixFlow looks in the translation table.
3. PhixFlow finds an entry code string that exactly matches the text in the interface.
4. PhixFlow matches the user's locale language to a language name in the translation table.
5. PhixFlow displays the translation text for that language instead of the source text.

PhixFlow displays the untranslated source text if it cannot find any translation. This may be because:

• no translation text is defined
• the language is not present in the translation table
• there is no exactly matching entry code
• no translation table has been set up for the application.

How to Configure Translation

Step 1.  Set Up Languages and Locales

PhixFlow is supplied with a set of languages at the system level. These populate the drop-down lists in locales and in the translation table. If you have administration privileges, you can add more languages in the repository; see Language. You cannot add languages at the application level.

You can set up locales at the system level or the application level; see Locale. If all your applications will need to use the same set of locales, it is more efficient to set them up at the system level (in the full repository) rather than at the application level (within the application's repository).

When a user opens an application, PhixFlow checks the user's locale.

1. In the application repository, right-click Locale and  Add Locale.
2. Enter a name for the Locale, and select a language from the Language Name drop-down list.

You can only delete a language from the repository when it is no longer used by any locale.

Step 2.  Set Up the Translation Table 

Every text string that you want to translate must be listed as an entry code in the translation table. For details about setting translation table properties, see Translation Table.

It is important to be consistent in capitalisation and to minimise the strings, as you need to create entries that pair the text to all the translations.

An application is able to translate text using the information in its translation table. The table contains a list of whole text strings which must exactly match those used in the application.

For each text string you must add the translation for each language you want to support. 

It is not possible to break the strings into substrings or translation. For example, you must translate  ‘First Name’ and ‘Family Name’ separately, rather than creating translation strings for 'first', 'family' and 'name'.