Interface language for display of configuration elements

All PPM interface elements that are based on configuration files (name of measures, measure groups and dimensions) can be specified in any language. The naming of elements in the different languages is defined by the description XML element, which is used in all XML configuration files. In addition, a language-specific description can be added for each of these interface elements, which is displayed as a tooltip in the front-end.

DTD for XML element description (file _description.dtd):

ppm_customizing_3

Example

Extract from the XML measure configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE keyindicatorconfig SYSTEM 'KeyindicatorConfiguration.dtd'>

<keyindicatorconfig>

...

<kidef name="PNUM" type="PROCESS" attrname="AT_KI_PNUM"

calculated="TRUE" distribution="FALSE"

standarddeviation="FALSE" retrievertype=

"NUM_KEYINDICATOR" sharedfunctionki="FALSE"

functionspanki="FALSE" dimreferring="LOOSE"

importmode="OPTIONAL">

<description language="de" name="Prozessanzahl">
Anzahl der tatsächlich durchlaufenen Prozesse
</description>

<description language="en" name="Number of processes">
Number of processes actually passed through
</description>

</kidef>

...

</keyindicatorconfig>

The content of the text specified in the #PCDATA tag of the relevant description element is displayed as a language-specific tooltip in the PPM interface.

Warning

To configure the PPM system successfully, you must enter at least the description in the default language for every configuration element.

Depending on the PPM login language used, the dialog boxes in the PPM front-end show the language-specific name of the configuration elements, for example in the process attribute dialog box the names of attribute type groups and attribute types. The language-specific names are defined in XML configuration files.