Localization
In AMT it's possible to change the language of messages and texts to your local language.
For the Control Center, Application Center and AMT Screens, localization files allows the translation of standard English messages into any local language with the help of an XML file.
The following files are available:
| Environment Component: | Localization file: | File location: |
|
Control Center and general messages |
AmtLocalisation.xml |
root folder of your environment |
|
Application Center |
AmtApplicationCenterLocalization.xml |
AmtTools\ApplicationCenter folder |
|
AMT Screens |
AmtScreensLocalization.xml |
<Application folder>\ClientGUI |
These files can be opened and edited with a plain text editor like NotePad.
Editing the localization files
Control Center
If you open the AmtLocalisation.xml file you will find further explanation on how to use this
functionality at the top of the file, inside the <remarks> section.
In the files you will find the default
language, namely English, starting with <language name=”English”> this sections ends with the closing tags
"</language>".
After that you can put any other language in by using new opening tags <language name=”AnyOtherLanguage”>. In between these tags you can then enter the message in your language.
Each message tag consists of a message id and a value, as shown in this example:
Example from AmtLocalisation.xml: <msg id="17001" value="Message" />
Application Center
The AmtApplicationCenterLocalization.xml file works in the same way as the AmtLocalisation.xml file. You can find the default English language first, followed by any other languages.
The language used in your environment is then decided by the local language of the browser. If the browser default language is set to Spanish, the localization file will be checked for the Spanish language, if not found it will use the default English language.
| Please note that different browsers have different methods of reporting the used language. For example Dutch can be reported as 'Dutch', 'nl' or 'nl-NL'. |
AMT Screens
In AMT Screens, the context menu text can be localized using the AmtScreensLocalization.xml file.
By default, this file isn't present in the application. You will need to create this file manually by copying
the template file 'SAMPLE_AmtScreensLocalization.xml' located in the 'ClientGUI' folder of every generated application
and renaming it to 'AmtScreensLocalization.xml'.
This file follows the same structure as the other localization files, with the default English language provided
first, followed by any other languages.
Users can set their preferred language in the 'Local Settings' window, accessible from the 'Options' menu in AMT Screens.
If the set language isn't found in the XML or if the XML file itself isn't present, the default English language will be used.