Localization
Using localization you can specify how Molgenis should look for users in different countries.
Languages
Molgenis comes with a fixed set of languages. You'll find them in the Language
entity. Each language is identified by its ISO 639-1 Code.
The following languages are available:
The
xx
language is made available to give you some flexibility in adding your own specific language.
By default, only the en
language is active. You can activate the other languages as needed by editing their row in the Language
entity in the Data Explorer.
In the Application Settings you can specify the application-wide default language, used for anonymous users and for users who have not yet chosen a language.
If more than one language is available, users can select their language in the menu at the top of the screen.
UI Messages
In the Localization
entity in the Data Explorer you can provide translations for UI messages. The translations are split into namespaces. For instance the values in the form
namespace allow you to localize how the forms look. Changes you make will be visible in the UI once you reload the page.
EMX
In your EMX files, you can provide translations for your data and metadata in columns postfixed with -
and the language code.
Metadata
The attributes
and entities
sheets in your EMX files have a label
and a description
column. When you upload entities in EMX, you can specify translations for these labels and descriptions in attributes
E.g. to provide Dutch labels and descriptions, you should specify them in the columns label-nl
and description-nl
.
Data
If an entity you create has label attributes that you'd like to localize for the user, you should provide your translations in attributes postfixed with the language code.
Example
Suppose you have a City
entity that has a name
label attribute that you'd like to translate into Dutch. In the attributes sheet of your EMX, specify two rows for both the name
and the name-nl
attributes.
In the data sheet for your City entity, add columns for both name
and name-nl
.
Check out the Sample EMX file.
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