Terminology

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Terminology for objects, attributes  and reports can be overridden by locale. Both name and short name values can be provided.  Name is used in most cases except for report column headings which tend to use short name. If these values are not overridden the name and short name will default to the object code value with words separated by spaces and each word capitalized. For example "costCentre" will default to "Cost Centre". If this does not result in a satisfactory value for your organization then it can be overridden by system administrators using the Logical Model Maintenance functionality.

Values can be overridden by simply supplying the new name. For example the costCentre object could be changed to have a name of "Cost Center" with a short name of "CC".  There are many objects related to the costCentreobject so it is important to consider changing them as well.  Examples of these related objects are costCentreLocation, costCentreComment and costCentreType.  Rather than changing each of these related objects by hardcoding "Cost Center" and "CC", it is possible to use substitution values in the locale overrides. This is done by prefixing the name of the object attribute to be used as the substitution with the "{{" characters and suffixing the value with "}}" . The attributes available for substitution are "name" and "shortName".  These values are all case sensitive. In this example, to override the default name of "Cost Centre Location", the name and short name of this object could be changed to "{{IM.CostCentre.name}} Location" and "{{IM.CostCentre.shortName}} Location" respectively.  Or the short name could simply be changed to be "Location".  The use of substitution limits the changes required as the new name value only needs to be set up in one place.