Interactive Localized Text Editor

Instead of searching through a list of locale keys, you can add the query string parameter ?langdebug=true to your EmpowerID web application URL, and interactively create or edit keys directly on the text as it appears in the page.

Once enabled, the Locale Key Editor Enabled info box provides you with information on how to use the editor.

There are three things that you can accomplish using this editor.

• Create new keys — This is for use by developers who are adding new text to the UI. Developers can use this shortcut to add a key to correspond with a value in their code.
• Edit localized values for existing keys — This is for use by administrators or authorized users who are adding translations of the value for other languages or editing existing translations.
• Edit localized values and add keys — This is for use by administrators or authorized users who are adding translations of the value for other languages when keys do not yet exist in the database.

In this topic, we explore how to add or edit localized text for existing keys and how to add keys for existing localized text. We cover how to create new keys in the developer documentation.

To enable the Locale Key Editor

1. Navigate to the EmpowerID page with text that you want to localize, and insert the query string parameter ?langdebug=true in the URL between /UI and #, in place of the slash. For example:
   
   https://sso.empoweriam.com/UI/#Common/Find/Person becomes
https://sso.empoweriam.com/UI?langdebug=true#Common/Find/Person

   When you navigate to other EmpowerID pages with the Locale Key Editor enabled, the query string stays in the URL so that you can continue localizing other pages. So you can start off by appending the query string to the main entry point of your EmpowerID site like this: https://sso.empoweriam.com/UI?langdebug=true

2. The Locale Key Editor Enabled info box appears, and all localized strings are highlighted in yellow, or in orange if a localized value exists in the code, but no key exists in the database. 
   
   

To add or edit localized text for existing keys

1. While pressing the Ctrl key, click any yellow highlighted text.
   
   
   
   The clicked text highlight changes to green to indicate that it is being edited, and the Edit an existing locale key dialog appears.
   
   
   
   

2. The default locale is English, so the Localized Value here is "People." You can customize this value. For example, your organization might prefer the term "Associate."
   
   

   Do not change the Key Name field, as this is what connects the value to the proper place in the UI.

3. To provide a translated value for another language, drop down the Locale list and select the language you want.
   
   
   
   
4. In the Localized Value box, enter your translation and click Save.
   
   
   
   

5. Once that language has a translation, you can choose another locale to translate. When you are finished, click Close.
   
   

   To check your work, you can append a language query string parameter to the base URL for any page in the web application to force it to display the page in that language.

   To display all pages of the Web application in a specific language, append the following to the Home page URL:

   ?lang=<ISO 639 culture code>-<ISO 3166 subculture code>

   For example: https://sso.empoweriam.com/UI/?lang=ja-jp where sso.empoweriam.com is the FQDN of the EmpowerID Web server in your environment, and ja-jp represents the ISO settings for the locale.

   EmpowerID then appends that parameter to each page of the Web application until it is removed from the URL or the user session ends so that any pages you navigate to are displayed in the specified language.

   The translated text is highlighted green to show that it was the last edited key.

To localize a value and add the key to the database

1. While pressing the Ctrl key, click any orange highlighted text.
   
   
   
   The clicked text highlight changes to green to indicate that it is being edited, and the Change or update a locale key dialog appears.
   
   
   
   

2. The default locale is English, so the Localized Value here is "Today." You can customize this value. For example, your organization might prefer the term "Current."
   
   

   Do not change the Key Name field, as this is what connects the value to the proper place in the UI.

3. To provide a translated value for another language, drop down the Locale list and select the language you want.
   
   
   
   
4. In the Localized Value box, enter your translation and click Save.
   
   
   
   

5. Once that language has a translation, you can choose another locale to translate. When you are finished, click Close.
   
   

   To check your work, you can append a language query string parameter to the base URL for any page in the web application to force it to display the page in that language.

   To display all pages of the Web application in a specific language, append the following to the Home page URL:

   ?lang=<ISO 639 culture code>-<ISO 3166 subculture code>

   For example: https://sso.empoweriam.com/UI/?lang=fr-fr where sso.empoweriam.com is the FQDN of the EmpowerID Web server in your environment, and fr-fr represents the ISO settings for the locale.

   EmpowerID then appends that parameter to each page of the Web application until it is removed from the URL or the user session ends so that any pages you navigate to are displayed in the specified language.

   The translated text is highlighted green to show that it was the last edited key.

To close the Locale Key Editor

1. Replace the query string parameter ?langdebug=true with a slash: / and press Enter.
2. The Locale Key Editor Enabled info box disappears and the highlights are removed from the text.