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Display of task description [message #1591]

Sun, 31 August 2008 17:47

gpatti
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Tony,

Is it possible to display the task description instead of the task id at the top of each screen? Would like to make the application look a little more friendly and can't figure out if this is possible.

Thanks,

Graham

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Re: Display of task description [message #1592 is a reply to message #1591]

Mon, 01 September 2008 04:59

AJM
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Please read http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/radicore-tutorial.html# modify.screen.labels.

Tony Marston
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Re: Display of task description [message #1594 is a reply to message #1591]

Mon, 01 September 2008 05:50

gpatti
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Not sure whether I am missing something here.

I can get all the text working as I want apart from the screen titles. From what I can see the screen titles are always showing the task_id rather than the task_description. So no matter what I enter as the description either in the task_mnu or in the language file I still see the task_id.

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Display of task description [message #1595 is a reply to message #1594]

Mon, 01 September 2008 06:14

AJM
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You are not following the instructions:
(1) Set the task description by updating the MNU_TASK table.
(2) Export the whole subsystem to produce a file called 'text/<subsys_id>.menu_export.txt'.
(3) Use the contents of this file to update the 'text/<language>/language_text.inc ' file.

Simply updating the task description on the MNU_TASK table is not good enough as at runtime the text is taken from the relevant language file. This allows separate files to exist for different languages as part of the internationalisation (I18N) feature.

Tony Marston
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Re: Display of task description [message #1596 is a reply to message #1591]

Mon, 01 September 2008 06:56

gpatti
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I did do all that - and I copied the contents into the language file. I see all the correct descriptions in this file - I didn't need to change any as I had set them correctly in the task descriptions. But, I still only see the task_id on the screens.

I replaced the contents of the language file, rather than added to it. It looked like the existing data wasn't relevant to the app. Is that where I've gone wrong?

Graham

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Re: Display of task description [message #1597 is a reply to message #1596]

Mon, 01 September 2008 07:16

AJM
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You need to step through with your debugger to see where you are going wrong. In file 'include.xml.php5.inc' at line 458 is the following code:

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$xsl_params['title'] = getLanguageText($task_id);

This is where it retrieves the text from the language file using $task_id as the key. If it cannot find the entry it will return the key, so are you sure you have put your text in the right file in the right place?

Tony Marston
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Re: Display of task description [message #1598 is a reply to message #1591]

Mon, 01 September 2008 09:50

gpatti
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Seemed to be because I had overwritten the existing contents of the language file instead of inserting the exported details. I realised afterwards that the existing entries were placeholders for error messages, but didn't think that would have any effect. Fortunately, I had taken a copy of the file before overwriting it.

Now that I've added the language details into the existing file everything is working properly.

Thanks for the help once again

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