Translation Support for Global Attribute Values on Standard Control Characteristics in MPMLink

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The system provides translation support for global attribute values on standard control characteristics in MPMLink.

Prerequisites to Enable Translation Support for Standard Control Characteristics in MPMLink

Following are the prerequisites to enable translation support for global attribute values on standard control characteristics.

1. Add the following property in the wt.properties file using the xconfmanager utility and restart the method server.

Property	Description
wt.translate.Translatable.enable	If set to true, enables the translation capability. If set to false, disables the translation capability.

2. From Type and Attribute Management utility, go to Manage Global Enumerations > Available Languages:

◦ Click Source Languages, select the desired languages, and move to Available for selection table.

◦ Click Target Languages, select the desired languages, and move to Available for selection table.

3. To enable the authoring language for standard control characteristics, copy the following content in a file. Save the file and load the file using the LoadFromFile utility.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE NmLoader SYSTEM "standard12_1.dtd">
<NmLoader>
<csvBeginUpdateTypeDefView
handler="com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader.beginUpdateTypeDefinition">
<csvname>com.ptc.windchill.mpml.pmi.MPMStandardCC</csvname>
<csvmandated>true</csvmandated>
</csvBeginUpdateTypeDefView>

<csvBeginUpdateProperties
handler="com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader.beginUpdateProperties">
<csvmandated>true</csvmandated>
</csvBeginUpdateProperties>
<csvUpdatePropertyValue
handler="com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader.updatePropertyValue">
<csvobject>attr|translationInfo.authoringLanguage</csvobject>
<csvname>systemHidden</csvname>
<csvisDefault>false</csvisDefault>
<csvvalue>false</csvvalue>
</csvUpdatePropertyValue>
<csvEndUpdateProperties
handler="com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader.endUpdateProperties" />
<csvEndUpdateTypeDefView
handler="com.ptc.core.lwc.server.TypeDefinitionLoader.endUpdateTypeDefinition" />
</NmLoader>

Use Case: Creating a Translate Attribute for Standard Control Characteristic

Perform the following steps to create a translate attribute for Standard Control Characteristic:

1. Create a global attribute with the internal name SCC_IBA of the string data type.

2. Create a translated text attribute with the internal name translated_SCC_IBA for global attribute SCC_IBA created in step 1.

. For example,

com.ptc.windchill.mpml.pmi.MPMStandardCC-_-SCC_IBA.

You can use any unique name. Ensure that the translation directory name matches with directory name specified in TranslationDictionary.xml.

3. Add the attributes SCC_IBA, translated_SCC_IBA, and Authoring Language in the creation layout of standard control characteristics.

4. To view the translation, add attributes SCC_IBA, translated_SCC_IBA, and Authoring Language in the information page layout of the Type Attributes group for standard control characteristics.

5. Create the Standard Control Characteristic.

◦ Set the Authoring Language attribute value to en. Here, en means the English language.

◦ Set SCC_IBA attribute value to This is the text to be translated.

6. Load the TranslationDictionary.xml file with load from utility with appropriate authoring language, target language and translated text.

Here is an example of the loader file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE NmLoader SYSTEM "standard12_1.dtd">
<NmLoader>
<csvTranslationDictionaryEntry handler="com.ptc.core.td.LoadDictionary.createEntry">
<csvdictionaryName>com.ptc.windchill.mpml.pmi.MPMStandardCC-_-SCC_IBA</csvdictionaryName>
<csvsourceLanguage>en</csvsourceLanguage>
<csvmasterText>Hello</csvmasterText>
<csvtargetLanguage>ja</csvtargetLanguage>
<csvtranslatedText>こんにちは</csvtranslatedText>
<csveffectiveStart></csveffectiveStart>
<csveffectiveEnd></csveffectiveEnd>
</csvTranslationDictionaryEntry>
</NmLoader>

The loader translates the English text Hello to Japanese text こんにちは.

7. After the loader successfully runs, you must change the language of the Windchill browser to ja. Here, ja means the Japanese language. You can verify that the value of the translation attribute shows こんにちは for the given SCC in entire Windchill where the name of the standard control characteristic is Hello.

• こんにちは is the Japanese dictionary meaning of the English word Hello. The こんにちは text is loaded in Windchill using the loader.

• In the above example related with the loader, English is the source language and Japanese language is the target language. In the loader, you can add multiple target languages for one source language.