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You may find some strings in the default properties file that are not applicable to your form. Here are a few example strings that are only applicable if you're using the save/load feature, workflows feature or Electronic Signatures.
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Translations use UTF-8 encoding by default but you may also upload ISO 8859-1 (Unicode) strings. If you are using Unicode, check the ISO checkbox above the upload button.
Error message strings that the designer adds to a form using the error message property are translated using these uploaded translation files. The translation of built-in error messages is done in the translation file located in the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/webapps/frevvo directory.
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| You can only specify one translation per language. For example, if a browser locale is set to ger (German) or de-at (German/Austria), your form will be translated using the one german translation you uploaded. If you click the test button you'll see the URL with &locale=ger and you'll see your form translated to your german strings. And if you manually change the URL to &locale=de_at you will still see your german strings. Live Forms frevvo falls back to the single german translation file. |
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Runtime strings such as those found when a user logs in to access their task list, the login page, access denied messages, etc and Design-time strings such as those found in the palette controls, wizards, built-in error messages etc. are localized in the default file in the WEB-INF/data/locale directory.
Follow these steps:
- Refer to steps 1 and 2 above under Server Customization, then...
- Find the file named "default" located in /WEB-INF/data/locales. This file contains all of the runtime and designer strings that have been externalized. Notice there are partially completed Chinese and German sample translation files provided in this directory as well.
Copy the file "default" to a new file named using the ISO 639-2 three character or the the ISO 639-1 two character language codes .For example, the German translation file can be called ger or de, for English you can use eng or en. The Portuguese translation file can be named por or pt and the Chinese translation file an be chi or zh.
Tip Translation files can also be named to specify a country code. In this case you must name the file using this format: <language code>_<country code>. For Example, let's say the Firefox browser is set for de-at (German/Austria). The translation file in the Web_INF/data/locales directory MUST be named de_AT. The de represents the german language, followed by the underscore followed by a capitol AT which is the country code for Austria. These file names are case sensitive.
There are several files for specific areas of the application. The names of these files indicate the area for which the file contains externalized text strings:
form-designer-properties
flow-designer-properties
flow-designer-step-properties
rule-builder
frevvo-ui (currently covers the template install dialog)
Pre-pended the locale onto the file. For example for french, "form-designer-properties" becomes "fr-form-designer-properties". All 6 files are required for each locale in order for this to work properly. For example for french (fr), you must place the following files into WEB-INF/data/locales, even if not all of them are translated:
fr
fr-form-designer-properties
fr-flow-designer-properties
fr-flow-designer-step-properties
fr-rule-builder
fr-frevvo-ui
- Edit the new language file and add your translations.
- Refer back to steps 4 - 6 under Server Customization for the instructions to complete.
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Date and time type controls are locale parsing and formatting aware. When Automatic format is selected, both date and time entry and display formatting will be locale specific.The designer has the option to force a particular date or time format upon the users that is independent of the locale by using the date format and time format properties. but this is not recommended.
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To translate AM and PM in time / date-time control formats, assign the value "h:mm a" to the frevvo.time.format property in the concerned locale file. |
Date Picker
The Date picker will be automatically translated according to the browser locale. You can override the browser setting by adding the properties shown below to the locale file. This localization only applies to the date picker on the desktop as the native date picker will be shown on mobile devices. You can translate (locale-specific) month names and abbreviated day of week names (two character). The days of the week will always be shown as Sunday through Saturday, left to right on the date picker. Only the Gregorian calendar system is supported.
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