Language Configuration


Users with LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATION permission can provide support for multiple languages, including double-byte languages, in a single RizePoint implementation. You can add different language sets for various components in the application. Because you provide the translations, you are not limited in the language sets you create. In addition to foreign languages, for example, you may also want to provide your organization's internal terminology as a distinct language.

The following steps are required:

 

 

CREATE A NEW LANGUAGE FILE AND SPECIFY A DEFAULT LANGUAGE
  1. Log on as a user with LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATION permission.
  2. Go to System > Language > Language Configuration. A list of all existing language files is displayed.
  3. Click the NEW button to create a new language file. The New Language window opens.

  4. From the Language Source drop-down list, select a language on which to base the new language. In the example shown, a new language set (named Spanish) is being created. Because English is the selected Language Source, the Spanish language set currently contains English and must be translated into Spanish. Until the translations have been imported into the application, the new language is identical to the language specified in the Language Source drop-down list.
  5. Enter the language name and description.
  6. The LANGUAGE CULTURE NAME field is used for matching this language with a language in the browser's Language Preference dialog when using the Browser Language Identification feature. When appropriate, select a corresponding language from the list.
  7. If you want to override this language with the language specified in the browser's Language Preference setting, check this box. See Browser Language Identification for details.
  8. If this language is selected as the DEFAULT LANGUAGE, it will be assigned as the default Website language and the default Mobile Auditor language to all new users that you create. It is also the language that will be used to display the RizePoint log-on page.

    Only one language may be designated as the default language. Checking this box replaces the previous default language with this language.

    Even though you may want this language to be the default language, it is recommended that you wait until the translated language file has been imported before setting it as the default language. Then, once you've imported the translation into RizePoint, you can come back to this dialog and select this language as the default language.
  9. Click SAVE & RETURN. The new language file now appears in the list. However, it has not been translated yet, so at this point it is identical to the language specified in the Language Source drop-down list.

 

To delete a language:

  1. Log on as a user with LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATION permission.
  2. Go to System > Language > Language Configuration. A list of all existing language files is displayed.
  3. Select the language that you want to delete.

  4. Click the DELETE button. The language is removed from the list and placed in the archive. Languages deleted in this manner can be restored.
If you delete a language that is currently assigned to a user, the language designated as the default becomes the language assigned to that user.

 

To restore a language:

  1. Log on as a user with LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATION permission.
  2. Go to System > Language > Language Configuration.
  3. Click the ARCHIVE button. A list of all archived (previously deleted) languages is displayed.

  4. Select the language that you want to restore.

  5. Click the RESTORE button to restore the language.
If you delete a language from the archive, it cannot be restored.

 

 

EXPORT THE LANGUAGE SET
  1. Log on as a user with IMPORT/EXPORT permission.
  2. Go to System > Import/Export > Engagement Data.
  3. Click the EXPORT link beside the language set that you want to export. The Export Language Data screen opens.


  4. From the Language drop-down list, select the language of the data you're exporting. NOTE: This is the language file that you want to translate.
  5. Click SUBMIT.
  6. Select SAVE in the File Download dialog. Save the file as a Unicode text file.
    If the data opens in a browser window instead, save the contents of the browser window as a Text File (.txt) with Unicode encoding. (This situation may occur when using older versions of a browser.)
     

     

 

TRANSLATE THE DATA
  1. Open the file in Excel. When the file opens, notice that the ExportedValue and the TranslatedValue are the same.
  2. Enter the translated data into the TranslatedValue column. DO NOT change the data in any columns other than TranslatedValue.


  3. Save the file as a Unicode Text file.

 

 

IMPORT THE TRANSLATED LANGUAGE SET INTO RizePoint
  1. Log on as a user with IMORT/EXPORT permission.
  2. Go to System > Import/Export > Engagement Data.
  3. Click IMPORT LANGUAGE FILE.

  4. Select the Language, then locate the translated text file. CAUTION: Be sure to select the correct language set to import. The language set you select here will be overwritten by the translated text file you import.
  5. Click CONTINUE.
  6. When the import completes, a message confirms the import was successful.

Once the data is imported, any subsequent changes made to the application become part of all other language sets. For example, if the current language is English and a new Audit Type named TEST is created, that audit type will appear as TEST in all languages. The application does not make any internal translations. Translations must be handled through the Import/Export functionality in System > Language Setup. However, when existing labels are modified with the Edit icon (pencil) or when changed through the RizePoint Configuration functionality in System > Language > Application Labels, changes are made to the current language only.

 

 

ASSIGN THE LANGUAGE TO USERS


Once you've created a new language file, translated it, and imported it back into RizePoint, you'll need to determine which users or roles will require access to it. When a user is first created, the language specified as the DEFAULT language in System > Language > Language Configuration is assigned as both the Web language and the Mobile Auditor language. However, administrators may change either of these language assignments to any other language available. (Note that you may also assign a language to a user on the Language tab on the User Profile.)

  1. Go to System > Language > Language Configuration.
  2. Click on a language to view the Language Setup information:

    ASSOCIATED - displays the number of users and roles who have been associated with this language on the Language tab of the user or role profile page. To change the users or roles associated with this language set, click the USERS or ROLES link.

    USAGE - displays the number of users with this language as their default website language and the number of users with this language as their default Mobile Auditor language (as specified in the Configuration section at the bottom of the GENERAL INFO tab of the User profile page). To change the users using this language as their default website or Mobile Auditor language, click the appropriate link.

Keep in mind that users with LANGUAGE SELECTION permission may change their own website language to any language to which they have been given access. All languages associated with a user appear in a drop-down list when Accessories > Language Selection is selected on the menu bar. If you don't want a user to have access to a specific website language, be sure to remove the user's association with this language, either through LANGUAGE tab of the User Profile, or through the ASSOCIATED link on this page, as described above. Also note that although users with this permission may change their website language, they may not change the Mobile Auditor language assigned to them.