Setting language or locale for Infor Smart Office and the Lawson Enterprise Applications

All available languages for Infor Smart Office are included with the installation.

  • The Infor Smart Office installation program checks the Standards and formats settings on the Regional and Language Options dialog in Windows to determine what language the user's PC is using. The installation will use those settings as the default language and formats for Infor Smart Office.

    For example, if the user's Windows settings indicate French (France), all screen text and formats in the Infor Smart Office will appear in French on that user's PC.

    If the language specified in the Windows settings is not available for Infor Smart Office, the installation will default to English.

  • Once the installation is complete, the user can change the language. The setting is located on the General tab in the Infor Smart Office settings dialog. For more information about how users select languages, see the Infor Smart Office online help.

    Note: Changing the language in Infor Smart Office only affects the Infor Smart Office framework. It does not affect the applications that run in Infor Smart Office.

  • You can override the default language installation by adding a parameter to specify language on the Infor Smart Office installation URL. See Valid URL parameters for an Infor Smart Office ClickOnce installation.

  • Users can select Locale (language) for the Lawson Enterprise Applications using the Tools > User Settings > Advanced tab. The Infor Smart Office administrator can control whether users can change locales by using the Role Manager. For example, if you wanted to create a group of users who have access to the Lawson Enterprise Applications in French only, you could create a role, set the locale for the role, and ask your Lawson Security administrator to assign the role to the user entry in Resource Management. For more information, see Infor Smart Office User Setup in Resource Management and Administering Lawson User Roles in Infor Smart Office.

  • To support proper formatting of numeric fields, dates, and times for non-US locales, an ISO standard locale name must be entered in the ISO Locale property of RM.