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When the option to review or change a field's multilingual attributes on the field definition menu is chosen, a screen similar to this will result:

DC@P100701            Multilingual Field - LRTB

Field : EMPNO

Description / Label                   Column Headings       Language
Personeels nummer                     Person.               ( DUT )
Personeels nr..                       Nummer

Employee Number                       Employ                ( ENG )
Employee no....                       Number

Codice Impiegato                      Numero                ( ITL )
N. Impiegato ..                       Impiegato

Fnn=Help  Fnn=Exit  Fnn=Cancel  Fnn=Messages  Fnn=Change

From this screen you can:

Review the multilingual information associated with a field.
Change the multilingual information associated with a field. Use the CHANGE key to place the screen in change mode and make the desired changes.

This panel will be repeated for each language group i.e. all LRTB (Latin languages), DBCS (Ideographic or Double Byte Character Set languages) and RLTB (Bi-directional languages).

Input Options

These input options apply to changing a field's multilingual attributes:

Description

Optional. If not specified, field name is used as default.

Label

Optional. If not specified, field name is used as default.

Column Headings

Optional. If not specified, field name is used as default. All column headings should be centered in the length of the longest column heading for all languages. Refer to the LANSA Multilingual Application Design Guide for further details.