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Administration → Localization is where you rename what the product calls things — a work order into a Job, an asset into Equipment — and correct or translate the product’s wording and your own fields in each language your people read it in. The Localization screen on the What things are called tab The Localization screen on the What things are called tab

Who can use this screen

Everything here takes Edit configuration entries — System Administrator, Maintenance Administrator and Maintenance Manager by default. Without it the screen says What the product calls things is set by an administrator rather than showing a read-only view. See roles. Saving anything here changes the wording for your organisation only. It never changes the product’s own catalogue and never affects another organisation.

The header

The Language picker on each tab lists every language with its completeness, for example Français — 100%.

Languages shipped

The small word under each count in a screen’s stat strip — overdue, plans, down — is translated too, chosen for the screen it sits on. MTBF and MTTR are written the same in every language. A language’s completeness is measured against the strings the product ships this release, so a language at 100% today can drop when a new screen arrives.

What things are called

The first tab, because renaming an object is the change most administrators come here to make. Rename an object once and every screen follows — the navigation, the page titles, the buttons and the sentences that explain them. Terms you can rename: asset, contract, inspection, location, maintenance plan, meter, part, purchase order, requisition, site, technician, tool, vendor, work order and work request.
Type a term in lower case and the product capitalises it wherever its own wording does. Type a capital anywhere but the first letter — WO, PM, eTicket — and it is used exactly as typed.
A rename applies to the language it is made in. Renaming the English does not rename a screen somebody has already translated into French or Arabic.
A rename rewrites the product’s wording, never yours. If a sentence reads awkwardly after a rename, correct it on Product strings — the correction stays even if the rename changes again.

Product strings

Every string in the product’s catalogue, in the language you are editing, with a box to override it for your organisation. The list works like every other list in the product: sort by a heading, filter under the headings, choose columns and keep a saved view. It reads a page at a time, with the total number of strings that match, and the table scrolls inside the screen with its headings held at the top, so the Translation column is in reach without scrolling to the foot of the page. Everything is translated in this language appears when Untranslated finds nothing, and Nothing is translated in this language yet when Translated finds nothing.

Your fields

The Your fields tab, with the label and help text of each custom field ready to translate The Your fields tab, with the label and help text of each custom field ready to translate The fields you added in Form studio, translated one string at a time in the language you choose. A field reads in the language of whoever opens the record. What is left blank reads as it was written. Read it as it was written clears a translation. You have not added any fields of your own yet appears when there are none.

Your lists

The lists your organisation fills in itself — work order types, priorities, resolution codes, asset categories, skills, tool conditions, task templates and the rest. These are your own words, so no translation is shipped for them; this tab is where you write one, row by row, in the language chosen in the Language picker at the top of the tab. The Your lists tab, listing the organisation's own lists that can be translated The Your lists tab, listing the organisation's own lists that can be translated Click a list to open it. Each row shows its name as you wrote it on the left and a box for the translation on the right, and the list’s heading counts how many rows are translated. Type a translation and press Save beside it (or Enter); Saved confirms it. The undo button beside a saved translation — Read it as it was written — removes it, so the row reads as written again. Saving here changes the wording for your organisation only. Where a translation shows, as the tab says: A translated row shows in the reader’s language wherever the list is offered to choose from, and on the work order and asset lists. Other screens, and any row left blank, show it as you wrote it. In particular: The settings screens that edit these lists keep showing the name as written, so an administrator working in another language cannot rename a row to its own translation by saving it. Status names are not on this tab, because each state model has its own statuses and a flat list of several rows called Open could not say which is which; their wording is changed under statuses.

Languages

The Languages tab showing each language's completeness The Languages tab showing each language's completeness Each person chooses their own language from their profile; see navigating.