Setting up a multilingual system
You can use Amend to update other fields such as Label Prefix or Suffix, Description, and Short Heading.
- Open Language (LAN).
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Specify this information:
- Language Code
- Enter or select a code to identify the language.
- Short Heading
- The short heading.
- Status
- The status.
- Description
- The description.
- Lookup Code
- The lookup code.
- Use Business Unit Separators
- The decimal and thousand separators used in SunSystems are independent from the settings in your operating systems's Region and Language. For each language, the separators to be used in SunSystems are obtained from either Business Unit Setup, or the Language (LAN) options specified below. Select Yes to use the settings for decimal and thousand separators on Business Unit Setup. Select No to use the Decimal Separator and Thousand Separator options specified below.
- Decimal Separator
- Character used as the separator for decimal places in the specified language, if the Use Business Unit Separators option (above) is not set. It is strongly recommended that you set this field to the preferred character for the selected language. You cannot use a blank decimal separator.
- Thousand Separator
- Character used as the separator for thousands, millions etc, in the specified language, if the Use Business Unit Separators option (above) is not set. It is strongly recommended that you set this field to the preferred character for the selected language. To specify a space as the thousand separator, enter - hyphen. If no separator is required, leave this field blank.
- Read Right-to-Left
- If the installation has been setup to use a right-to-left language, such as Arabic, set this to Yes otherwise No'.
- Label Prefix or Suffix
- Indicates whether value label descriptions are displayed before or after the value label value. For example, you can display Discount on Net Conversion Rate (prefix) or Conversion Rate Discount on Net (suffix) where Discount on Net is the value label description.
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