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To define Custom Text, select Administration —> Preferences —> Custom Text from the menu. MainBoss displays a window containing the following:
- Message file list: The main part of the window lists the message files available on your system. For example, you should see lines specifying files for English, French, German and Spanish. There is also an entry named Default, which represents U.S. English and is considered the base for all other languages. You cannot make changes in the Default settings themselves.
- Create Custom: Clicking this lets you create a new file to hold your text messages (as opposed to changing the contents of an existing file). For more information, see Creating an Override File.
- Delete Custom: Deletes an existing override file.
- Captions: Clicking this lets you specify new captions to be used as titles on the windows that MainBoss displays. For more information, see Custom Captions.
- Controls: Clicking this lets you specify new labels for buttons and fields. For more information, see Custom Control Labels.
- Menus: Clicking this lets you specify new names for menus and menu items. For more information, see Custom Menu Names.
- Reports: Clicking this lets you specify new labels for use in reports. For more information, see Custom Report Labels.
- Messages: Clicking this lets you customize the format of diagnostic messages. For more information, see Customizing Messages.
- Forms: Clicking this lets you customize the format of work orders and purchase orders. For more information, see Customizing Forms.
- Done: Closes the window.
| Note: To use the Captions, Controls, Menus, Reports, or Forms button, you should first click the message file that you want to change. For example, if you want to change the name used for a particular menu in U.S. English, click the entry for the Default message file, then click Menus. MainBoss will open a window where you can specify the new name for the menu. |
Making one change often necessitates making other changes. For example, suppose you want to change MainBoss's term "cost center" into "department". Since "cost center" appears in several captions, control labels, menus, and reports, you would have to change all of such occurrences if you wanted all the names to be consistent.
The first time you wish to customize a message, you must use Create Custom to create a custom message file.
You only have to do this once; if you want to customize other messages, you can simply do so without using Create Custom again.
To determine which language files you are currently using, select Help —> About from the menu.
Your languages are specified in parentheses at the end of the line beginning with the words Messages Version. There may be two or three numbers:
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The first number shows your user language setting. This is taken from your Windows Regional Options setting
or from the /langid option (if any) on the MainBoss command line.
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The second number is the default language ID. This indicates what message file is actually being used.
For example, if this number is 0000, it indicates that you are using message file msg0000.txt.
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The third number (if any) indicates an override file. For example, if you are using override file ovr0001.txt,
the third number shown will be 0001.
Note that if you create an override file, its presence will not be shown in the About window until the next time you start MainBoss.
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