Modifying application text

You can modify the value of the displayed label or text for any application object (such as icons, labels, report names and descriptions, messages). The process for modifying display text is the same for all application objects, including reports.

About this task

To do this task, you need the SOX > Administration > Application Text application permission.

Changes to the displayed text appear wherever the particular object is displayed in the application.

Procedure

Click > System Configuration > Application Text.
To find application text that you want to view or modify, click to access the search filter.
1. Select one or more categories in Search Scope.
2. Optional: Click in the Search box and enter free text. The search returns a results when it finds a match in the name, description, or values in any language. You can enter single words. For example, enter "path" to find all application texts with the word "path" in the name, description, or values. The Search box text is not case-sensitive.
3. Locate the application text that you want to modify.
To modify application text, click an application text in the list. Make your changes in one or more locales.

If it is displayed, click to populate translated values to languages. For more information, see IBM Watson Language Translator.
Click Done.
To add new application text, click New.
1. Enter a Name.
  Allowed characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, period, underscore, hyphen, and spaces. Special characters are not allowed.
2. Select a Category.
3. Enter a Description.
4. Enter a Default Label.
  
  If it is displayed, click to populate translated values to languages. For more information, see IBM Watson Language Translator.
5. In the locale code that you want to modify, for example, French or Japanese, enter text for that language.
  
  If you neither click nor enter text for each locale code, the text in Default Label is populated to all languages.
6. Click Create.