Language

Use the language component to enable language support for multiple languages in your portal. This enables you to create and maintain language texts, and mapping between the languages defined in iKnowBase and web browser languages.

There are two key items to understand the iKnowBase language properties:

iKnowBase uses the defined languages to enable a wide variety of language features. By defining a new language, you make it possible to enter texts and translations for that new language.
Different browsers and web technologies have different concepts of a language. For example, the language formally known as “Norwegian Bokmaal” is identified by several language codes by different browsers, with “no”, “no_nb”, “no-nb” and “nb” being the most common.

Language texts are stored in the IKB_NLS_* tables in the database.

Note: The text elements defined on various components, such as pages and presentation styles, are not available through this component.

Properties

This section describes the properties of a language, as shown on the corresponding Edit pane tabs.

Edit tab

Property	Description
Sub system	Select the appropriate subsystem.
Identifier	Type the iKnowBase language code. Note: This language code must be given in lowercase. It is not possible to update this property after creation.
Browser language	Type the code of the web browser locale-language for which this iKnowBase language should be used. For example, type “nb” for “Norwegian Bokmï¿½l”.
Description	Type a description of this language.
Code to JavaScript files (cal, tinymce)	Type the extension/prefix of language-specific JavaScript files.
Browser language	Type the codes of all the web browser locale-languages for which this iKnowBase language should be used.
Description	Type a description for these language codes.

Developer Workbench Tab

iKnowBase enables you to translate the language of the labels for all the components defined in the Development Studio. This is easily done from the metadata tab in the Edit pane.

Property	Description
Compare to	Select the language to compare the texts with.
Source	Select the source of the texts that you want to maintain. Fetched from the database table IKB_NLS_DEFINITION.
Source	Displays the identifications of the source texts in the database table IKB_NLS_STRING.
Original value	Displays the texts for the language you are comparing this language to.
Value in this language	Displays the texts for the language being edited. You can type or change the value if desired.

Metadata Tab

iKnowBase enables you to translate the language of the labels for all the metadata in the information model. This is easily done from the metadata tab in the Edit pane.

Property	Description
Compare to	Select the language to compare the texts with.
Source	Select the source of the texts that you want to maintain.
Source	Displays the name of the database tables in which the texts are stored.
Original value	Displays the texts for the language you are comparing this language to.
Search result : Value in this language	Displays the texts for the language being edited. You can type or change the value if desired. ikbProperty(#LanguageMetaResultDescription). Search result : Description Displays the descriptions for the texts for the language being edited. You can type or change the value if desired.

Create a new language set

iKnowBase enables you to create new language sets. You will always start the job by copying a language set from a existing language.

To create and copy a language, perform the following steps:

On the List pane for languages, click on the Language action. An empty Edit pane, without any tabs, opens.
On the Edit pane, select the appropriate language to copy from in the Copy from drop down box, and enter the appropriate information in each field. Note: It is not possible to create a new language without making a copy from an existing language.
Click Apply. iKnowBase creates the language and saves all the information that you provided for the new language. If you chose to copy from another language, all the texts defined for this language will be copied to the new language. The Edit pane remains open, now split into tabs with all the properties of the language available.

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