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Administering the Multilingual List of Values
After you have configured your Siebel eBusiness Application for MLOVs, use the List of Values views to administer and monitor LOV entries.
For detailed information about administering Lists of Values, see Applications Administration Guide.
Important Fields in List of Values Administration Views
Several list columns in the list of values views help you to administer multilingual LOVs:
- Multilingual. This field indicates which list of values types have been configured to be multilingual. When you run the MLOV upgrade utility (mlovupgd.exe), it sets this flag for the list of values entries. For more information on the upgrade script, refer to Upgrading Existing Data Using the MLOV Upgrade Utility.
If you add entries after the script has been executed, you must manually update this information to reflect your configuration.
- Language. This field indicates for which language the entry is valid. The entries for this picklist come from the Language Administration view. To access this view, from the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Application Administration >Languages.
- Translate. This field indicates whether the entry's display value can be changed—for instance, translated to another language.
Only the LOV types that are marked as translatable are candidates for multilingual configuration. For any entries added, you must update this information manually to reflect your configuration. Do not change existing Siebel entries. Doing so will not allow the LOV to be translated.
- Language-Independent Code (or Code in the Explorer view). This field is the internal code used for a list of values entry. It is stored in the database when MLOV is enabled and referenced by configurations. The language-independent code must be 30 characters or less. It is typically the English-American version of a particular selection value. The language-independent code cannot be changed.
- Display Value. This field is required and holds the text that will appear in picklists. The display value is stored in the database when MLOV is not enabled.
If there are display values for more than one language for a list of values entry, the display value shown is determined by the current active language.
Adding Records
When you add a new list of values record for a LOV type that has been multilingual- enabled, you also need to add records for all supported languages. For example, when adding a new entry for FREIGHT-TERMS type, you need to add values for all supported languages.
If you add a new entry and do not add corresponding additional records for each supported language, the language-independent code will be displayed instead of the display value when a user with one of these languages tries to view the information.
Adding records for all the languages you support is also important for Assignment Manager. For more information, refer to Configuration Considerations.
For more information about adding records to the LOV table, see Applications Administration Guide.
Deleting Compared to Deactivating Records
As you administer MLOVs, you may find that there are records that you no longer need and would like to make inactive. If you delete a MLOV record, then records in other tables that have already been entered using that list of values record will no longer display correctly. The display value in the list of values entries is used to display the language-specific text.
Instead of deleting a record, inactivate it. Inactive values that have already been used and are referenced in other tables in the database will still display correctly. Inactive records are not included in any picklists, however, and are ignored by EIM when it performs validation against LOVs.
The Active list column in the List of Values Administration view is checked by default. To deactivate a record, remove the check mark.
If you try to delete a record, you will get a message asking you if you really want to delete the record, or just deactivate it. If you choose Inactivate from the dialog box, the check mark in the Active list column is removed.
If you do delete an LOV record, any language-independent codes in the target columns referring to the deleted record will then display the language-independent code. Searching and sorting will not function correctly on these values.
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Siebel Tools Reference Published: 20 October 2003 |