Multi Language Diagrams

Introduction

The international harmonization of business processes in companies is one of the main applications of business process management. Therefore it's absolutely necessary to be able to provide all results of BPM in multiple foreign languages.

IYOPRO provides an easy to use mechanism to archive this requirement.

Conceptual Overview

The number and type of languages used in a diagram depend on various conditions which are often up to the organization behind. Therefore it's necessary to be able to define the required languages on document basis. This ensures, that you may share and exchange documents with other organizations without the need to do local customization. This results in the following definition

• All Languages
  With "All Languages" we name the collection of all predefined languages in IYOPRO.
• Document Languages
  "Document Languages" is the set of languages out of "All Languages", which have been assigned to a Document (i.e. a Diagram). This set may be changed at any time.
• Current Language
  The Current Language is the currently active language within a document. Each document has it's own Current Language. All changes to language dependent Attributes are done within the context of the Current Language.
• Default Language
  The Default Language is normally the initial language of the diagram. If you change the Current Language it might happen that several language dependent Attributes have not been translated yet. IYOPRO will then show the content of the Default Language, enclosed by ">>" resp. "<<". The Default Language may be set when editing document languages