Locales

Locales are the language or languages presented to an InForm user in the user interface.

• Product Locale—The language(s)—English or Japanese—of the product user interface components: menus, controls, commands, system screen labels, error messages, and so on.
  • The Product Locale is initially set during the InForm software installation, and is sometimes referred to as the Global Product Locale. The selected language is applied to the product user interface components for the instance of the application. You can modify this setting using the pfadmin SETLANGUAGE command.
  • Administrators can also set a Product Locale for individual users. This can be set using the MedML User attribute or on the User details page in the Admin user interface in the Product Locale field.
• Study Locale—The language(s) in which study metadata are designed using the Central Designer application. This includes CRFs and related study design labels, such as visit names, CRF (form) names, section labels, CRF questions, item control labels, auto-query text, and so on. A study may contain multiple study locales.

  The study locale can be set by an administrator at the site and user level.

  • Site study locale—Set by an administrator using the MedML Site attribute.
  • User study locale—Set on the User details page in the Admin user interface in the Preferred Study Locale field.

Note: Messages in the InForm application are generated from a number of sources, including the operating system and the product itself. Because the product locale in the InForm application may be set to a language other than that of the user's operating system, it is possible for the user to see messages generated from the InForm application in mixed languages.