Bilingual Forms

How is bilingual forms supported? is it through resource files? If I have a form that should contain an English and French version how should I go about this?
Thanks
Arjuna.

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I'm a relative newbie just trying to figure out the best way to create a single form which would allow the user to change the language (English/French) on-the-fly. So based on what the user selects as their language (radio button) all of the text captions AND tool tips associated with the text fields would then be displayed in that language. Is there an efficient way to implement some sort of "resource file" or "lookup table" with the text field name as a key, and the corresponding English and French caption values, and then just load this English or French caption value depending on what language the user chose? I'm not expecting a detailed solution, just maybe a broad idea of the best way to go about doing this, to at least get me pointed in the right direction.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Technically that is certainly doable but depending on how complicated the form is (how many objects need to be updated) you can affect performance. If it takes more than a few seconds to change the text then users will complain. Also you will have layout issues where a caption in Englsih takes a certain amount of space then changing it to French usually means that more space is required. For these reasons most people end up with two different forms and load the appropriate one for the user.

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Gordon, I'm pretty sure this is actually outside the realms of Forms since the Window Manager is controlled by the O/S and so the only way you can set this is via the PC desktop (there is nothing exposed in Set_Window_Property that can do this).
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I am a DW user. Love it since 2001.
I discovered Muse. Love it since version 3 (& Muse CC is great)
Using BC for website hosting. Highly recommend it.
BUT…
Whenever I use MUSE to generate a form (something which i like better in Muse than using the BC website form builder online) and I decide to export the form (or a complete Muse website with the form to use in a section of my DW controlled BC hosted website) as HTML I get a folder with all i need to place about inside another website… In my case in DW to push on a website that I am hosting in BC.
BUT…
Problem is that the HTML export generates PHP that needs to be used with regards to the form (it is located in the Script folder inside the MUSE Exported website folder)…
BUT… BC does not allow PHP to be used on its hosted websites…
          (something as a M.A.M.P. user, i find sad, but that is besides the point…)
SINCE I use Muse for quick custom sections on my Website
(I work in a modular way i.e. I can generate webpages in various apps
before combining or adding them via Dreamweaver in any of my websites I have hosted on BC)
AND the exported forms (as in PHP outputs) are not compatible with BC
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I am wondering if there is a way to circumvent this bizarre case of (so it looks like) double standards with regards to Forms?
Should I push (publish) the website in BC from Muse
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(And if so, how to do it without damaging my main site in DW on BC?) ?
Right now, I place the muse exported HTML website folder inside my DW on BC main website
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using the BC website form builder system that i then copy and paste from in code view into my DW form page to customize it with CSS in DW (while making sure I keep all the info required by BC forms to do the data acquisition work, of course).
This is a tedious way and looks totally bizarre to me,
as I already mentioned, MUSE can host forms on BC…
but just not when it is exported as HTML (with the PHP required scripts)…
Am I missing something ?
"Anyone…Anyone…
Bueller… Bueller… Bueller…?"
Thanks for any time saving ideas.
PS For those wondering why i do all this Muse and DW shuffling and mix : I have to do things in a bilingual (and soon with more languages) setup. in other words, my work is not just in English…it is in at least 2 languages at all times… something of a headache, but there it is. I just got to do it. (And use is great for quick and dirty… i mean clean… webpage building on the fly).

1.SmartyPanouZe3rd,
Sep 4, 2013 1:03 PM   in reply to SmartyPanouZe3rd
This is a follow-up to the above question I had.
Since i noticed people looking at the question, but no replies showing up, i contacted BC support directly with the same question.
I got a reply.
I did tests based on the reply.
Here is what is going on based on the reply.
(spoiler alert : It works... but it's not yet a perfect score.)
All the details are posted here :
http://www.animavdo.com/mut/ambiguity-001.html
Hope this can help others.
Cheers.
PS I still will use DW for the heavy lifting...
       But MUSE is nice for quickly putting together a mini website.
       Highly recommended App.

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Sorry I didn't elaborate much about my problem, I have my error messages stored in my DB , and I want to expose them depending on the language locale, the only way i can think of is to add a method validator on the column (from the entity), and on the "EntityImpMsgBundle" java class I overwrite the message string using CustomMessageHandler.getMessage(msg_no) method which returns a message string based on the locale.
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Within a form in apex has anybody used ajax/css to display fields based on a language selection?
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Yes I have selected from the conditions menu 'Value of Item / Column in Expression 1 = Expression 2
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I am put up in saudi arabia i want to make my application bilingual(Arabia & English) which is built using Developer 2000(Forms 6i) please help me what steps i have to take.
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Data is not getting displayed in my form

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