Tools for Changing Text

You can modify and replace words or phrases that appear on pages, in messages, and other areas of the UI using several tools or tasks.

Use these tools to make text changes:

Application Composer
User Interface Text
Page Composer
Structure

Multiple factors influence the option you select to modify UI text. Here are a few factors:

Your product family
The extent and scope of your changes
The components that you modify

This table lists the tools that you can use to modify UI text, navigation steps to use these tools, and the corresponding product families associated with these tools.

Tool or Task	Navigation	Product Family
Application Composer	Click Navigator > Configuration > Application Composer.	Oracle Fusion Cloud Sales Automation Oracle Fusion Cloud B2B Service Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management
User Interface Text	Click Navigator > Configuration > User Interface Text.	All applications
Page Composer	Click your user image or name in the global header, and select Edit <Page Name> Pages in the Settings and Actions menu. If the Edit <Page Name> Pages option isn't available in the Settings and Actions menu, then select Edit Pages instead.	All applications
Structure	Click Navigator > Configuration > Structure.	All applications

Text Modification Scenarios

This table includes possible scenarios for modifying user interface text. Compare your situation to the scenario in the table to determine the most appropriate tool for modifying text in your application.

Task	Scope	Tool or Task	Example
Simultaneously replace multiple occurrences of a word or phrase that appear on multiple pages in multiple contexts	Comprehensive. The change affects multiple pages throughout your application. You can edit the embedded help (for example, hints) using this method.	User Interface Text	Change the word "Employee" to "Associate" on every page associated with Employee Self-Service, Benefits, and Payroll.
Simultaneously replace multiple occurrences of a word or phrase that appear in parts of messages in the message dictionary	Comprehensive. The change affects multiple messages throughout your application.	User Interface Text	Change the word "Employee" to "Associate" in every message associated with Employee Self-Service, Benefits, and Payroll.
Simultaneously replace multiple occurrences of the singular and plural forms of a word or phrase that appear in messages and on pages	Comprehensive. The change affects multiple pages and multiple messages throughout your application.	User Interface Text	Change the word "Employee" to "Associate" and "Employees" to "Associates".
Replace a word or phrase that appears on a specific page	Targeted: A page The change affects text on a specific page or page fragment.	Page Composer	Change the word "Customer" to "Account" on two specific pages.
Replace a word or phrase that appears in a specific message in the message dictionary	Targeted: A message The change affects part of a specific message in the message dictionary.	Manage Messages task	Change the word "Recruit" to "Potential Employee", but only in two specific messages. All other messages continue to use the word "Recruit".
Simultaneously replace a word or phrase associated with a specific object wherever the object appears	Targeted: A business object The change affects a specific component of a specific message in the message dictionary.	User Interface Text	Change the label of the opportunity business object, from "Opportunity" to "Deal". You want the change to affect the business object wherever it appears.
Replace words or phrases that appear in menus and menu items	Targeted: Navigator menu item text	User Interface Text	Change the menu item label from "Total Compensation Statements" to "Compensation Package Statements".
Replace words or phrases that appear in the browser tab title on a specific page	Targeted: A page The change affects browser tab title on a specific page or page fragment.	User Interface Text	Change the browser tab title from "Audit Reports" to "Audit Summary".

No matter which tool you use to make changes, all application changes are written in a single override bundle. So, the latest application changes overwrite the previous ones.

Note: If you replace text using plain text as an input value, it supersedes any changes that use the override bundle. For example, if you enter a direct string in Page Composer, then Page Composer writes these changes in a file (not string resource) containing page modifications. So, such changes overwrite the changes in the override bundle.