Working with Extracted Constants in the Translation Manager

The Translation manager's Details tab lets you work with the constants, irrespective of the translation language.

Notes:

• • Until a translation language is created, this is the only accessible page. It will be blank if no constants have yet been extracted from the environment.
  • When this tab is active, the main window's title bar will show the current environment name as well as "Translation manager".
  • The trace of actions performed on constants can be saved in a trace file.

Data entry

Position to

Search argument allowing positioning in the constant list.

Note: The Translation manager is case-sensitive.

Lists

Constants

List showing either all the extracted constants or just those returned by a selection, search or filter. The list will be blank if no constants have been extracted from the programs in the environment.

Constants are sorted in ascending alphabetical order.

The constants are set out in seven columns containing the following details: constant value, type, extension type, maximum length, internal number of the constant and comment associated with it (by default the last two columns are visible if you use the scroll bar).The extension type, the maximum length and the comment can be changed for each constant by clicking Modify in the context-sensitive menu.

The left-hand column is made up of check boxes: a checked box indicates that the corresponding constant is linked to more than one program (multiple sources).

Double-click one of the constants to modify it, or else click the right mouse button and select the Modify option.

Extended-selection list.

Note: You can select or deselect several non-consecutive constants by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the left mouse button.

Context-sensitive menus

Constant list

Modify

This option opens a dialog box that lets you modify the extracted constant's characteristics.

Associate

This option opens a dialog box that lets you link several constants that form a single text.

Dissociate

This option is used to dissociate associated constants.

Merge

This option opens a dialog box that lets you group together any constants with the same text and type.

Analyze

This option opens a dialog box containing additional details of the selected constants.

Delete

This option lets you delete a constant and its translation from the Translation manager.

Print

This option is used to print constant lists showing the constants' texts, type, extension type and maximum translation length.
The print job is submitted to the Job manager.

Note: Only software engineers with the *ADM_TRAN authority can open all these menus. The Modify, Analyze and Print menus are the only ones accessible to software engineers with the *TRAN authority.

Buttons

Select

This option opens a dialog box that lets you restrict the display to a subset of the extracted constants.

Find

This option opens a dialog box that lets you run a search on the constant or translation texts returned by a selection.

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