You can create task forms that support different languages. To do so, you create a new task form, plus a default properties file and additional properties files for each language supported. The steps to accomplish this support are described below.
To Create a New Task Form and a Default Properties File:
Create a new task form, described in Creating an Process Central Task Form.
In the
Create Form
dialog, select the Externalize Strings check box.
Select the dialog button next to Property File.
Name the new properties file. Do not include an underscore in the name.
Browse to the forms folder to store the file.
When you select to externalize strings, the following events occur:
Schema elements in the form are generated by identifier rather than by name to allow for runtime replacement of strings found in a properties file
A new link is added within the task form to indicate multilingual support:
The list of schema elements is added to the properties file as a key-value pair. The value of each key is the English wording.
The properties file that you create is the default externalized strings file. It is for the en_US language.
For Each Additional Supported Language:
Make a copy of the default properties file and paste it into the project
form
folder.
Name the copied file with the syntax shown below. Note that you must use the exact same name for each file, followed by an underscore, followed by an ISO 639 Code for the Representation of Names of Languages.
Open the file in a text editor and replace the English values with another language.
Note
: You can also add multilingual support for a task's presentation elements, namely the Subject and Description. For details, see Adding MultiLingual Support for Task Subject, Description, and Display Name.
See also Deploying a Task Form and Properties Files.