Translating Accolade Text into Another Language

Accolade provides the flexibility to translate the text displayed in the application into several different languages. When a user selects the language in which to view the application in their user profile, the application uses the translation entered for that language. You can add languages as required for your implementation.

Use the procedure below to configure text, such as display messages, window title, and menu names. Select the appropriate language and enter the customized phrasing.

Translatable text includes:

• Field names
• Page titles
• Menu names
• Messages and notifications

The display and entry of dates for each user within Accolade is determined by the date format set in each user's account or their personal selection in their user profile, not by the language selection.

To ensure the names used in notifications, reports, some configuration pages, and some other locations are consistent with your translation or modifications, you must also enter the new names in the entity names and/or class terminology pages. See Replacing Accolade Terminology for more information on system-wide terminology changes, or Configuring Class Terminology for more information on changing specific class terminology.

Important! Terminology and language changes will require you to restart the Accolade Cache Service and reset IIS on all application servers in order to display the changes. Be mindful when making these updates, as users will temporarily be unable to access Accolade during the reset process.

To import or export Accolade text, see Importing and Exporting Languages for more information on creating and using the import process.

To translate Accolade text:

1. On the System menu, select Configuration > Languages.
2. In the Language field drop-down, do one of the following:

• Select the language to which you want to translate.
• Select Add New to add a language to the list, select the language to add in the New Language dialog box, and click Add.

3. (Optional) To narrow the list of translatable items, enter search criteria in the Filter By field and click Filter.

Only items with the criteria you enter display in the list. Leave the field empty to display all available translatable items. Note that some items may not be translatable.

To find a specific term or phrase and replace one instance or all instances, use the Find What and Replace With fields to complete a search and replace throughout the translatable items.

4. In the Current Value column, enter the translated text, or the text to use instead of the text in the Default Value field.

Note that some items may display as read-only depending on your access group admin rights

To create multi-line text strings, press Enter to start the next line.

5. To finish work on a string, click outside the Current Value field that you are editing.

Edited fields display highlighted to help you track the changes you have made.

Important! In text strings that include a token (for example, {0}) that inserts text into the string, you must include the token in the appropriate place in the translated version. The explanations in the Required Tokens and Explanation column indicate where to place the token.

Some tokens are enclosed in single quotes, ', or angle brackets, < >. These marks are part of the text, not part of the token. You can leave, remove, or change them, as appropriate.

6. Click Apply to save your changes.

Notes:    If your company uses a load balanced configuration, you will need to restart the Accolade Cache Service and reset IIS on all application servers if you make any terminology or language changes. The content of the online help references the English translation of the default value for all the items listed above, and is not customizable or translatable at this time. The changes made to the entity names page (System > Configuration > Entity Names), the system language page (System > Configuration > Languages) or the class terminology page (System > Configuration > Class Terminology) will not currently change the references in the help content. Translatable options do not include text in Portfolio Optimizer or in the Portfolio Optimizer help.