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Procedure documentationChanging Text Using the Translation Window

Procedure

Store Manager groups the text appearing on the objects you can change into categories. For example, the buttons you use to save, clear, and search for information on windows are grouped as objects in the Command Buttons category. Similarly, the names of the menus appearing on the Customer Menu window, are grouped as objects in the Menu Windows category.

  1. On the Main Menu, click Administration.

  2. On the Administration menu, click Translation. The Translation window appears.

  3. Beside Not Translated Text Only, do one of the following:

    • To work only with text that has never been changed from the original text, check this check box

    • To work with all text, regardless of whether or not it has ever been changed, leave this check box unchecked.

  4. To specify the type of text you want to change, do one of the following:

    • To view all available text that can be changed, click Translate All Objects. The complete list of text that you can change appears

    • To view all available text for the entire category, in the Category field select a category, Menu Windows, and then click Translate Sel. Category. The list of text that you can change for the category appears

    • To view the available text for a specific object only, in the Category field select a category, Menu Windows, and in the Object field, select the object containing the text that you want to change Customer Menu Window. The list of text that you can change for the object appears.

      Note Note

      Any changed text appears below Translated Text.

      End of the note.

  5. Click the row for any additional text that you want to change, and in the Translated Text field, type the text as you want it to appear.

    Note Note

    To return the text to the original text provided with Store Manager, delete the text in the Translated Text field.

    End of the note.

  6. Do one or more of the following:

    • To make additional changes to text that is listed, repeat the previous step

    • If you previously selected Windows or Menu Windows as the Category, and then selected an object, click Translate Ancestor Object to list additional text related to the object

    • To save your changes, click Save.

  7. Click Exit, when you have completed all changes.