Translating Display Names

When you create a custom field, you need to provide a display name for that field.
  1. Do one of the following:
    • While creating a custom field with the Add Field dialog box, click Translate.
    • Display the properties of a custom field. Click Advanced > Customize from the File or Change Request menus. Select the field to be modified. Click Edit, to display the default values in the Modify Field dialog box. These values may not be what you see in your client. For example, the defaults may be in English, and you may be using the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client with a French locale. Click Translate. The Translate Field dialog box appears.
  2. Select the language you want in the Language list. If it does not appear, click Add.
    1. In the Add Language dialog box, select a language from the Language list.
    2. In the User Defined field, type an existing locale name, such as fr-FR to quickly select the language by its locale name.
    3. Type a new locale name. A user-defined locale name must follow the formatting rules for locale names. You can use up to 8 characters: letters, numbers, and one or two hyphens to separate the locale name into two or three parts. Underscores display as hyphens. (No spaces are allowed.) Regardless of the case you type, the first part will always be lowercase and the second part will always be uppercase. After its creation, the user-defined language becomes a member of the language list for the current field. It is not available for other fields unless you also create it for those fields. To see the values in a user-defined language, users must set their workstations to that locale.
    4. Click OK.
    Be aware that adding a language to one field does not automatically add it to the language list for any other field. Also, if you do not translate any values, the language will disappear from the language list for this field.
  3. Optionally, type the display name for the field in the new language in the Translated Display Name field.
  4. Optionally, translate enumerated values.
  5. Click OK to return to the Add Field or Modify Field dialog box.
  6. Click OK to return to the Customize dialog box.
  7. Click Close.
Parent topic: Translation of Display Names and Enumerated Values