Annotated study books, locales, and layouts

When you generate an annotated study book for a study that supports multiple locales, you specify the layout and locale to use. When you generate a deployment package, you specify the default layout locale for the deployment package. These settings are independent of each other.

• Annotated Study Book—When you specify a layout and generate an annotated study book, the annotated study book reflects the layout customizations that you have made for the layout.
• Deployment package—In InForm release 4.7 and later, a single study version contains the layout information for all locales in the study, and you specify a default layout locale, from which all layouts, regardless of locale, inherit customizations in the InForm application.

  The site locale language in the InForm application determines the language in which forms appear.

  For example, a study contains layouts for the French (France) and the English (United Kingdom) locales. Radio buttons are horizontal in the French (France) layout but are vertical in the England (United Kingdom) layout. If French (France) is the default layout locale, then all layout customizations for the France (French) layout, including the alignment of radio buttons, are deployed to the InForm application and appear for all users, regardless of their site locale. Therefore, if your site locale in the InForm application is English (United Kingdom), the forms appear in English but with the customizations that were made in the French (France) layout in the Central Designer application.