Optional properties of extensions
General properties
- Description
- A more detailed description of the extension than that provided for the Summary field. For example, you might list the major features available with the extension.
- Date
- An optional date for the current version of the extension. No formatting is provided.
- Author
- The author of the extension. You might want to include an email address.
- Links
- A set of URLs to associate with the extension; for example, the author's home page. The format of this field is arbitrary so be sure to delimit multiple URLs with spaces, commas, or some other reasonable delimiter.
- Keywords
- A set of keywords with which to associate the extension.
- Platform
- Information about any restrictions that apply to using the extension on particular operating system platforms.
Dependencies
- Maximum SPSS Modeler Version
- The maximum version of IBM® SPSS® Modeler on which the extension can be run.
- Integration Plug-in for R required
- Specifies whether the Integration Plug-in for R is required.
If the extension requires any R packages from the CRAN package repository, then enter the names of those packages in the Required R Packages control. Names are case sensitive. To add the first package, click anywhere in the Required R Packages control to highlight the entry field. Pressing Enter, with the cursor in a given row, will create a new row. You delete a row by selecting it and pressing Delete.
Localization
- Custom Nodes
- You can add translated versions of the properties file (specifies all strings that appear in the node dialog) for a custom node dialog within the extension. To add translations for a particular node dialog, select the dialog, click Add Translations, and select the folder that contains the translated versions. All translated files for a particular node dialog must be in the same folder. For instructions on creating the translation files, see the topic Creating Localized Versions of Custom Node Dialogs.
- Translation Catalogues Folder
- You can provide
localized versions of the Summary and Description
fields for the extension that are displayed when end users view the extension details from the
Extension Hub. The set of all localized files for an extension must be in a folder named
lang. Browse to the lang folder that contains the
localized files and select that folder.To provide localized versions of the Summary and Description fields, create a file named <extension name>_<language-identifier>.properties for each language for which a translation is being provided. At run time, if the .properties file for the current user interface language cannot be found, the values of the Summary and Description fields that are specified on the Required and Optional tabs are used.
- <extension name> is the value of the Name field for the extension, with any spaces replaced by underscore characters.
- <language-identifier> is the identifier for a particular language. Identifiers for the languages that are supported by IBM SPSS Modeler are shown in what follows.
For example, the French translations for an extension named MYORG MYSTAT are stored in the file MYORG_MYSTAT_fr.properties.
The .properties file must contain the following two lines, which specify the localized text for the two fields:
Summary=<localized text for Summary field> Description=<localized text for Description field>- The keywords Summary and Description must be in English and the localized text must be on the same line as the keyword, and with no line breaks.
- The file must be in ISO 8859-1 encoding. Characters that cannot be directly represented in this
encoding must be written with Unicode escapes ("
\u").
The lang folder that contains the localized files must have a subfolder named <language-identifier> that contains the localized .properties file for a particular language. For example, the French .properties file must be in the lang/fr folder.
Language Identifiers
de. German
en. English
es. Spanish
fr. French
it. Italian
ja. Japanese
ko. Korean
pl. Polish
pt_BR. Brazilian Portuguese
ru. Russian
zh_CN. Simplified Chinese
zh_TW. Traditional Chinese