The language of the User Interface (UI) and of data
The language used for labels in the Axiell Collections User Interface is changed independently of the language in which your data is recorded:
- The interface language is the language used for all labels throughout the Collections interface, including fields, panels, buttons, dialogue boxes, data sources, pop-up messages, tooltips, and enumerative fields (explained below), all of which are specified and translated in Axiell Designer
A tool for designing, creating, customizing and managing Axiell Collections applications and databases, broadly speaking, the Axiell Collections Model Application. As well as managing databases, including user access and permissions, Designer is used for such tasks as translating field labels, tooltips, values in drop lists, etc.. - The data language is the language in which you enter details in all fields (with the exception of enumerative fields).
Changing languages is managed by options in the Main menu: the Interface language option provides a drop list of available languages for the User Interface; in a multilingual system, Data language provides a drop list of languages in which your data is available:
Interface language
Select a language from the Interface language menu option to switch the language used for all labels in the Collections interface.
This option is used to switch the language used for all text in the Collections interface that is specified and translated in Axiell Designer A tool for designing, creating, customizing and managing Axiell Collections applications and databases, broadly speaking, the Axiell Collections Model Application. As well as managing databases, including user access and permissions, Designer is used for such tasks as translating field labels, tooltips, values in drop lists, etc., the Axiell Collections administration tool. This includes labels for all menus, fields and panels (in Record details View), buttons, dialogue boxes, data sources, pop-up messages:
as well as tooltips:
A field's system name can be translated in Axiell Designer and the translation will be shown in a tooltip in the current interface language (French in this example):
In the image above you will observe that although labels are French, the tooltip is French AND a value in the Name Type field (Type de nom) is also French, the data language is in fact still English.
The reason why the value in Type de nom is translated is that enumerative fields are read-only drop lists and their values are added and translated in Axiell Designer A tool for designing, creating, customizing and managing Axiell Collections applications and databases, broadly speaking, the Axiell Collections Model Application. As well as managing databases, including user access and permissions, Designer is used for such tasks as translating field labels, tooltips, values in drop lists, etc.: as a user you can select a value in an enumerative field, but you cannot add or translate a value.
In a multilingual system the language in which your record data is displayed and edited is switched with the Data language option in the Main menu. In this example the interface language is French and the data language is English:
Data language
In a multilingual system it is possible to view and edit data in each available language by selecting a language from the Data language drop list:
Selecting a language from the drop list will change the language in which data is displayed and edited in all fields - with the exception of enumerative fields (explained above).
To assist with keeping track of which data language is currently active (and minimizing the risk of entering data in the wrong language), the active data language is indicated beside the data source name in the Title bar1:
See Working in multilingual systems for assistance with translating data.
