Translate a category or target
If your library system has other language versions of Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition, you can translate the names of categories and targets. To translate categories or targets one at a time:
- Double-click Category construction on the Children’s PAC Profiles tabbed page for the organization. The Children’s PAC Category Configuration dialog box appears.
Tip:
Click the plus sign by any category folder to display the contents of the folder.
- Select the category or target you want to translate.
- Click Modify. If you selected a category, the Edit Category dialog box opens. If you selected a target, the Edit Children’s PAC Search Target dialog box opens.
- Click Translate by the name you want to translate.
If you selected a category, you can translate the category name and the display message, if any (see Add a new category). If you selected a target, you can translate the display name and the icon display name, if any (see Add a new search target to a category).
The Language Strings dialog box opens.
- Select a language from the Choose Language box. The options are determined by the language versions of Polaris PowerPac Children’s Edition purchased by your library system.
- Click the box in the language column next to the target or category name you want to translate, and type the translated word in the box.
- To insert a diacritic character, follow these steps:
Tip:
If you frequently enter diacritics, you can add Input Method Editor (IME) keyboards and switch back and forth from the English keyboard to the international keyboards.
- Click Diacritics. The Character Picker dialog box opens.
- Select a graphic character set.
- Select the character, and click Insert. The Character Picker dialog box closes.
- Click OK on the Language Strings dialog box.
- Click OK on the Edit dialog box.
- Click OK on the Children’s PAC Category Configuration dialog box.