Localize the fields in IBM Sterling Business Center

You can choose to localize the fields in IBM® Sterling™ Business Center for the locales you have configured. For example, a seller may sell an item in more than one locale. In such a scenario, as an administrator can localize all the corresponding fields that can be viewed in the Web channel application. Thus, a buyer can access the Web channel application to buy the item and view all the information pertaining to that item in a localized format.

About this task

Note: All the locale configurations must be completed before item description is entered. For more information about configuring locales, refer to the Organization and participant modeling conceptsOrganization and participant modeling concepts.

To localize the fields in Sterling Business Center:

Procedure

  1. Log in to Sterling Business Center as an administrator.
  2. Navigate to the screen whose description or values you want to localize. You can localize fields associated to various modules. For example, you can localize the short description of an item, an asset, a classification value, and so on.
  3. In the Related Tasks panel, click Localize. Alternatively, click the Localize icon adjacent the field you want to localize. To localize the field values of an asset, click Localize in the Assets panel.

    The Localization screen pertaining to all the fields that can be localized is displayed. If you have clicked the Localize adjacent a field, the Localization dialog box pertaining to that field is displayed.

  4. From the Locales list box, select the locale for which you want to localize the fields.
    Note: If more than one locale is configured, the Localize is displayed adjacent to all the localizable fields and the Localize related task is displayed in the Related Tasks panel. The localizable fields such as Short Description, Long Description, and so on, are always displayed in the base locale irrespective of the user locale. For example, if Sterling Business Center is localized to French with the base locale as English, and a French user logs in to Sterling Business Center, all the UI literals except the localizable fields are displayed in French. The localizable fields are displayed in English. The user can click either the Localize or Localize to localize a field that is displayed in the base locale.

    The Localized Value box is automatically populated with the localized versions of the values displayed in the Base Locale box. The values in the Base Locale box cannot be edited.