Terminology Management Overview

The PeopleTools Terminology Management tools enable you to streamline certain user interface language changes through the use of text search and replace processing. This is particularly relevant to the task of adapting a language that is based on another language. For example, if your Mexican users require that their Spanish user interface reflect terms specific to Mexico, you can use the Terminology Management tool to adapt the PeopleSoft-delivered Spanish translations to substitute Mexican Spanish terms where appropriate.

You can also use this tool to change PeopleSoft-provided user interface terminology to better suit your organization’s internal terminology or corporate vocabulary, even if English is your only user interface language.

The Terminology Management tool only adapts an existing installed language—it cannot create a new language based on the changes you define. If you want to preserve the existing translation and use your modifications to create a new PeopleSoft language, you must first define the new language and copy the existing translations to your new language.

Searching and replacing terms is a multistep process, with several opportunities to back out the changes. The process breaks down into the following three phases, each of which is discussed in this section:

1. Search

2. Replace

3. Undo replacement

Each phase consists of three separate steps: setting up the process, running the process, and reviewing the results. However, you don’t have to use all three processes all the time. You can use the Search process without ever invoking the Replace or Undo processes.