Configuring the language for user interface and glossary assets

You can display the user interface text in a language that is different from the language that was selected during installation. In addition, you can define the language of terms, categories, information governance policies, and information governance rules.

Before you begin

To enable each user to select a preferred language for IBM® InfoSphere® Information Governance Catalog user interface and for glossary assets, you must have the Information Governance Catalog Glossary Administrator role.

To set the language of the glossary content when you create or edit a glossary asset, you must have the Information Governance Catalog Glossary Author or the Information Governance Catalog Glossary Administrator role.

After the language for the display and for the glossary content are defined, the user must have the Information Governance Catalog Glossary Basic User role or higher to configure the language settings.

About this task

You can select the language for the user interface of InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog. If you change the language for the user interface of InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, the user interface of other InfoSphere Information Server products is not changed.

The assigned assets of assets that are translated are called derived assigned assets. These assets, if they exist, are always shown in the Details page of a term asset. Other applications in IBM InfoSphere Information Server show glossary content in all languages. In contrast, InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog shows only the assets and their derived assigned assets that are in the language that you selected for the display of glossary content.

InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog includes support for right-to-left languages. When right-to-left languages are configured, the user interface layout is automatically aligned from right-to-left. The catalog content is automatically aligned, right-to-left, or left-to-right, based on the first directional letter that occurs in the text of the item that is being displayed.

Procedure

  1. Click Administration.
  2. Expand Setup.
  3. Click Language Setting.
  4. To enable each user to select which language to see the user interface in, expand User Interface Languages, and then select Yes.
  5. To set the values of the Language and Translation properties of glossary assets, do these steps:
    1. Expand Multilingual Support for Glossary Assets.
    2. Select Yes.
    3. Select each language that the user can browse, search, and display glossary assets in.
  6. Click Save.
  7. To confirm the language settings, click the Language Settings icon Language Settings icon in the top menu bar.
    In the Language Settings dialog box, you can select a new language for your user interface. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving any language settings.

What to do next

  • Each user must choose the languages that he needs from the list of languages that the administrator configured. Do these steps:
    1. Click the Language Settings icon Language Settings icon in the top menu bar.
    2. Select the languages, and then click Save.
      Note: User language preferences are stored in a browser cookie on your machine.

    A user who does not choose a language for the user interface gets the language setting of his web browser settings.

    A user who does not choose languages for the content of glossary assets sees assets in the languages that the glossary administrator selected.

  • You can update the Language and Translation value of a glossary asset. Select Edit from the menu, and then do these steps:
    1. Expand Header.
    2. In the Language field, select the language for the asset.
    3. Expand General Information.
    4. In the Translations list, select glossary assets that are the translated version of the glossary asset that you are editing.

  • Optionally, you can create a query to check the multilingual values by doing these steps:
    To list the assigned assets and the assigned derived assets of glossary assets
    1. In the Asset Type field, select Term.
    2. In the Available Properties list, double-click Assigned Asset to Terms and Assigned Assets to Translations.
    To list the Language and Translation value of terms
    1. In the Asset Type field, select Term.
    2. In the Available Properties list, double-click Language and Translations.
    Click Run to check the results. Alternatively, click Save to save the query for future use.
Note: When you enable the multilingual support and create glossary assets in different languages, those assets are treated like other glossary assets. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard uses the direct association of glossary assets with other assets to calculate key performance indicators (KPIs). Therefore, if you use InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog with InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard, then it is recommended to copy and maintain the same associations for all translations. Similarly, when you assign assets to glossary assets in IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer, it is recommended to assign assets for all translations.