Terminology

You can customize the user interface to change the terminology used for any screen or dialog box. For example, you may want the application to refer to "technicians" rather than "drivers", or change the wording on a particular dialog box or report. This customization works at the organization level: an administrator of the account sets up any terminology customizations, and all users of the account see those customizations.

Support for customizing the user interface is not enabled for all accounts. If this is a feature you want to add to your account, speak to your support representative.

Changes made using this screen do not take effect until the next time you (or a subuser) logs in.

From the Tasks section of the navigation bar choose Terminology to open the Terminology screen.

Use the Terminology screen to specify which customizations are made to the words used in the user interface. This screen is available to an administrator of the account. The terminology screen lets you select a word or phrase that appears in the user interface, and specify an alternative word or phrase that should be used instead. Depending on your account, you may be able to specify a different translation for each word, one for every language that is supported.

There are two types of terminology replacements you can specify:
 

Replacements of a word or phrase that appears in a specific screen or dialog box. To specify these types of customizations, use the Replace Once tab.
Replacements of all appearances of a particular word or phrase, wherever they occur. To specify these types of customizations, use the Replace Everywhere tab.

Depending on the configuration of your account you may also have a Custom Translations tab.

To use the column picker menu to save your preferred grid order, click the header drop-down arrow, then select the Save Visible Columns, Save Sort Order, or Save Column Order check boxes, or any combination of these. When you next sign in, the layout you choose is retained.

Replace Once Tab

The Replace Once tab lets you substitute specific translation keys that may be used in one or more location in the user interface.

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If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the replacement you are defining applies or for which you want to see the currently defined replacements.

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Select the Show only rows with Replacement Terms check box to filter the list so that you can see which specific customizations you have already defined. Clear the check box if you want to include all replaceable terms in the list so that you can define a new replacement.

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Use the Filter field to filter the list so that it only shows rows where the string you enter matches all or part of the value in any of the visible columns. Click the Advanced Filter button to open a dialog box that lets you filter on specific column values. To clear the current filter, click the X on the right of the Filter field.

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The list of replace-once replacements.

The Original Term column indicates the exact phrase that you can translate.
The Replacement Term column displays any replacement you have defined (in the current language) for the original term. If you click in the Replacement Term column, the cell becomes an edit box where you can enter a new replacement or change the current one. If you clear the value in the Replacement Term column, the user interface reverts to the original term.
The Path column indicates where the word or phrase appears in the user interface. You can use this to ensure that you have identified the exact occurrence of the word or phrase that you want to translate.

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If there are too many rows to display on the screen (for example, if you have not filtered the list and not selected Show only rows with Replacement Terms), use the navigation controls to view additional pages of translatable terms.

Replace Everywhere Tab

The Replace Everywhere tab lets you make global word or phrase substitutions. Unlike the Replace Once tab, you do not need to specify a specific translation key to be translated – instead, every occurrence of the word or phrase is changed, regardless of where it occurs. Words entered in this tab are case-sensitive.

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If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the replacement you are defining applies or for which you want to view the currently defined translations.

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Click the Create button to define a new substitution. When you click this button, a new row is added with the column names entered as default original term and replacement term values. You can then edit these values to specify a meaningful substitution, and select or clear the check box in the Replace Whole Words Only column to indicate how the substitution is performed.

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Use the Delete button to delete the currently selected substitution. This displays a confirmation dialog box before removing the currently selected row.

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The list of string substitutions.

The Replace column indicates the exact word or phrase to be translated wherever it appears in the user interface. Click a value in this column to edit it.
The With column displays any replacement you have defined (in the current language) for the Replace term. If you click a value in the With column, the cell becomes an edit box where you can change the current value.
The Replace Whole Words Only column indicates if a substitution is made only when the string in the Replace edit box matches a whole word in the user interface. Click in this column so that it changes to a check box that you can select or clear to specify whether or not you want to allow matches where the original is part of a longer word .

Allowing replacements that are not restricted to whole words lets you use a single substitution, such as "driver" replaced with "technician", to handle related forms of the word: this also would automatically replace "drivers" with "technicians" as well. However, allowing unrestricted substitutions can lead to spurious matches. For example, if you want to replace "member" with "individual", you probably want to select the Replace Whole Words Only check box, so that the word "remember" does not get translated to "reindividual". Also, watch out for grammatical differences. If you substitute "change" for "edit", you probably want to restrict to whole words so that "editing" does not become "changeing" instead of "changing".

Custom Translations Tab

The Custom Translations tab allows you to define translation strings to use in custom code, such as your own personalized dashboard. For more information, contact your Verizon Connect support representative.

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If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the translation terms you are defining applies or for which you want to see the currently defined translation terms.

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Click the Create button to define a new custom translation. When you click this button, a new row is added with the value "default" for each entry.

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Use the Delete button to delete the currently selected translation. This displays a confirmation dialog box before removing the currently selected row.

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The list of custom translations.

The Path column indicates where the word or phrase appears in the user interface.
The With column displays the word or phrase you want to use in the user interface (in the current language).

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If there are too many rows to display on the screen (for example, if you have not filtered the list), use the navigation controls to view additional pages of translations.

Customizing Reports

Use the Terminology module to replace text shown in generated reports (including custom reports), and the text used in user-interface elements related to reports, with a substitution of your choosing.

It is important to note that while you can change the default text shown in reports, such as page titles and column headers, it is not possible to change actual report values presented under these columns or elsewhere. Report elements that cannot be changed using the terminology translation module include driver, vehicle and street names, physical addresses, times, dates, and distances.

 
To change any report text by globally substituting a text string:
 

1.From the Tasks section of the navigation bar choose Terminology. The Terminology screen opens.
2.If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the replacement you are defining applies or for which you want to view the currently defined translations.
3.Click the Replace Everywhere tab.
4.Click the Create button. A new column is added to the list of global text replacements, with the text "default" under the Replace and With columns. The text under both columns is immediately editable:

 
5.Replace the "default" text under the left Replace column with the exact report word or phrase to be translated wherever it appears in the user interface or report. For example, "Manifest Report".
6.Replace the "default" text under the right With column with a word or phrase that will be used to replace the text under the Replace column. For example, "New Manifest Report Name".
7.Select the Replace Whole Words Only check box to prevent inappropriate partial matches from being accidentally substituted.
8.Click Update to save your changes.

 
9.Sign out, then sign in again. The text entered in the Replace column is now replaced by the text in the With column throughout the user interface, and within all generated reports that contain the substituted text:

 

The steps above are used to replace every instance of a specific word or phrase throughout the user interface and in all generated reports. If you would prefer to edit only specific, individual instances of text rather than making global changes that may inadvertently affect other text, use the Replace Once option:
 

1.From the Tasks section of the navigation bar choose Terminology. The Terminology screen opens.
2.If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the replacement you are defining applies or for which you want to view the currently defined translations.
3.Click the Replace Once tab.
4.Type the name of the text you want to change into the search control in the upper right corner. For example, "Manifest Report". Press the Enter key.

 
5.Locate the row that contains the text you want to change (in the example above, this can be identified by the path /reports/title/manifest_report).
6.Click the Replacement Term column beside the text you want to replace. A text box opens, allowing you to enter text. Type the word or phrase you want to replace the current text with. For example, "My Manifest Report".

 
7.Sign out, then sign in again. The updated text is now used.

 

You can navigate to the example above (Manifest Report) from the Reports section of the navigation bar. Choose Create Report > Manifest Report. The updated text is shown in the right report panel. Only the heading on this individual page is translated: the report name is unchanged elsewhere (for example, in the Reports folder).