Language in ARCWAY Cockpit

ARCWAY Cockpit differentiates between two levels of language. This includes the language of the client and the language of a certain project.

Client Language

The client language is the language that is used in the user intefrace of ARCWAY Cockpit. By default Cockpit will be startet in german on a german operating system and in english in any other cases. To explicitely specify the clietn language you have to modify the ARCWAY_Cockpit.ini file which can be found in the root folder of your Cockpit installation.

German

Please add the following lines before the -vmargs line:

-nl

de_DE

English

Please add the following lines before the -vmargs line:

-nl

en

Project Language

The project language is the language of a certain project. All content that will be created for this project, should be penned in this language. This includes customizable values and value ranges (e.g. requirement categories) and identifiers for Custom Properties

Client language and project language are often identical, but don't have to be. It is imaginable to use an English version of ARCWAY Cockpit to edit a project using any other language to exchange with project partners in foreign countries.

Please pay attention to the following hints for using different levels of language in case your project language is different from the language of your version of ARCWAY Cockpit.

Usage of Client Language

All informations that are provided by the software, are presented in client language. This includes:

• Main menu entries and all entries in the sub menus
• Context menu entries
• Dialogs with hints for the user, information about the client state, warnings, errors, etc.
• Templates for the plan editor
• Title information for the views and the project navigator
• Labels in the dialogs for editing project data

An exception to this is the forms editor. Here all labels and information will be displayed in project language, if possible.

Usage of Project Language

All other information will be presented in project language. This includes:

• Report Templates
• Labelings in the forms editors
• fix value ranges for properties of project data

Informations that have been inserted by a user will be displayed as inserted. This also includes labels and value ranges of Custom Properties and custamizable values as categories, milestones, states, etc.

Some Information, e.g. labels for input fields, can not be displayed in project language, if the project language differs from English or German. Those information will in most cases be displayed in English, sometimes also in German if this is the client language. At the moment this may lead to inconsistencies.