It is strongly recommended that naming standards cater for some special objects associated with developing multilingual applications.
Multilingual Variables (*MTXT variables)
A naming standard for multilingual variables should be established.
A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:
*MTXTttttnnn
where:
- tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:
- REPT - Report Title
- REPI - Report Instruction
- PANT - Panel Title
- PANI - Panel Instruction
- MSGT - Message Text
- and so on.
- nnn is an identifying sequence number.
Panel and Report Literals
Multilingual systems tend to have a large number of constants or literals defined as fields in the dictionary.
These are generally used for placing multilingual constants on screen panels and reports.
They usually have a default value that is established from a multilingual variable.
A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:
ttttnnn
where:
- tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:
- REPT - Report Title
- REPI - Report Instruction
- PANT - Panel Title
- PANI - Panel Instruction
- MSGT - Message Text
- etc, etc.
- nnn is an identifying sequence number.
This standard would mean that multilingual variable *MTXTREPI007 would be defined as field called REPI007 in the data dictionary with a default value of *MTXTREPI007.