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Use

You can translate language-specific texts that you have created with the object editor ( Description field) or the HTML Editor .

For the display language of an object, you can select the original language and any other languages for which there is a translation and that are permitted for target languages for translations.

Procedure

Translate Texts Created with the Object Editor

  1. Open the object editor and select change mode. To do this, choose Start of the navigation path <Object Type> Next navigation step Display/Edit End of the navigation path in the object editor menu.

  2. Choose < Start of the navigation path Object Type> Next navigation step Display Translations End of the navigation path.

    The translation editor opens.

  3. The language-specific text elements are displayed in a table. For each text element, a key and the text in the source and target language are displayed.

    You can show or hide table columns. To do this, choose Settings .

    If a target language is not displayed, choose Add New Language (pushbutton).

  4. In the Source field, define the source language (dropdown list box).

  5. Select the line for the text element to be translated in the table, and enter the text in the target language in the Target field.

  6. Choose Copy .

    Note

    You can also translate texts directly in the cells of the translation dialog table. Use the separate Source and Target fields underneath the table if you want to translate texts that are too long to be displayed completely in the table.

Translate Texts Created with the HTML Editor

  1. Open the object editor and select change mode. To do this, choose Start of the navigation path <Object Type> Next navigation step Display/Edit End of the navigation path in the object editor menu.

  2. Open the HTML Editor. To do this, choose Start of the navigation path View Next navigation step Documentation End of the navigation path in the menu of the object editor.

  3. In the HTML editor, select change mode.

  4. Choose the Edit Translations pushbutton.

  5. In the Source field, define the source language (dropdown list box).

  6. In the Target field, define the target language (dropdown list box).

  7. In the right frame, click the title of the text block whose text you want to translate (for example, Use ).

  8. Under HTML Editor , enter the text in the target language.

  9. Choose Copy .

  10. Save the documentation.

    Note

    Texts that you create with the HTML editor, and their translations, must be activated separately, independently of the object.