Translating data and phrases

In many registers in MONITOR G5 you can translate data to the different languages registered and set as active in the Languages procedure. What you can translate are texts in name fields for different records. Next to these fields you find the Translations button which opens a translation table. For example you find this button next to the Name field on all different terms in the Terms procedure.

In the Document texts procedure it is also possible to translate phrases. These phrases exists in document group which you register in the procedure and then connect to a language in the Languages procedure. The phrases are the headings (lead texts) which occur on all printed documents. When you install the system, document groups with finished phrase translations are included for the languages you find under Language in backstage in MONITOR G5.

There are two purposes with translating data and phrases. These are:

  • To get different languages on documents you send to foreign customers and suppliers, such as quotes, order confirmations, purchase orders, etc.
  • That users in MONITOR G5 should be able to see data in their own language. For example, if the company has an English CEO and a Finnish goods receiver, and they have selected English and Finnish for themselves in MONITOR G5.

You can translate data in different registers in the following procedures:

  • Procedures starting with "Basic data" in their name. For example the procedures Basic data – Parts, Basic data – CRM, etc. By using the function Find procedure (Alt + D) you will find all these procedures.
  • Activities in different procedures.
  • Manufacturing: BOM and routing, Work center register, Production schedules, Production schedule cycles, Configuration groups, Option lists, Variables.
  • Stock: Part register*, Register sales forecasts, Register case.
  • Time recording: Schedules, Schedule cycles, Parameter group.
  • Accounting: Chart of accounts, Dimensions, Project register, Register fixed assets object, Create accounting report, Create VAT report.
  • General registers: Calendars, Desktop templates, Voucher number series/Journals, VAT settings, Bank settings, Posting matrix, Budget charts, Invoicing plans, Document templates, Document texts, Departments, Authorization settings – EIM, User rights groups, Categories, Discount categories. And most of the procedures under Other tables, e.g. Terms, Number series, Price lists, Order types.

If no translation exists for the language selected for a customer's or a supplier's address, or a user's language in MONITOR, then the data will instead be shown in the company language.

* The part register is normally extensive and it is not unusual that it contains several thousand parts. To make it easier, you can choose to only enter an English name and English extra name for the parts and not translated this data.