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Overview

This chapter describes how extracting user-visible strings automatically from report design and Siebel report libraries can greatly simplify the localization process, reduce the time to create translations, and lower the localization cost. You need not be familiar with Actuate e.Report Designer Professional. The externalized strings of the reports can be more easily translated and maintained separately without affecting the report design and the executable file.

New functions to export and import user interface strings have been implemented in sscustom.bas. When the report is first designed and run in the Design mode, all the control names, text strings, and certain user interface properties from the report are extracted to an external file. This external file is in plain text format and is referred to as an user interface file. You can then localize the text strings in this file. When the report is run in the Deployment mode (which is the mode in which report executables are deployed), the report will read the text strings from this user interface file.

Previously, to translate user-visible strings in a report, you would manually open each report design file and modify the properties of the label controls, text controls, and so on. With this user interface externalization feature in release 7.5, you will be able to translate the texts for label controls and the search alias for text controls in the user interface files created by the user interface externalization feature.


 Siebel Reports Administration Guide, Version 7.5, Rev B 
 Published: 18 April 2003