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What Is a Localized Version?

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A localized version is a software product in which the entire user interface (for example, menus, utilities, and online Help) appears in a particular language.

Information Builders localized versions are positional. Each button or menu choice is always in the same relative position in the product. Only the text of the labels changes. Therefore, it is easy for anyone who is familiar with an Information Builders product in one language to support that product in another language.

Examples of Information Builders localized versions are the Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French (Canadian), French (Standard), German (Standard), Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish.

Localized versions have complete National Language Support (NLS) capability. You can access data for any supported language, with all national characters processed, displayed, and printed correctly.

NLV Excel Add-In for Quick Data

WebFOCUS Quick Data is a Microsoft Office Add-in that enables you to connect Microsoft Excel directly to WebFOCUS reporting tools, where you can access and analyze all of your enterprise data. Connecting Excel to WebFOCUS allows WebFOCUS Quick Data to leverage over 300 adapters to provide you with access to practically an unlimited amount of enterprise information.

A localized version provides a the WebFOCUS Quick Data plug-in to Microsoft Excel. The plug-in for Excel is included with App Studio, where it is added to the Excel plug-in folder and implemented through a WebFOCUS button on the Excel menu. When you launch Quick Data from a localized version of Excel, the dialog boxes are localized in the following languages: French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

NLS and NLV of WebFOCUS Open Portal Services

National Language Support (NLS) and National Language Version (NLV) support is available for WebFOCUS Open Portal Services. All Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286-compliant) portal environments are supported (for example, Microsoft SharePoint and IBM WebSphere Portal Server). For more information on configuring and using WebFOCUS Open Portal Services, see the WebFOCUS Embedded Business Intelligence User's Guide.

Localized Version Components

The following user interface components are translated in a localized version:

  • Initial program installation
  • Menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, forms
  • Program utilities (assistants, wizards, editors)
  • Error messages
  • Online Help, including context-sensitive Help, which is added to each version of WebFOCUS in a service pack

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