Auto Populate Labels when Saving

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Summary

The importance of enabling o disabling "Auto Populate labels when saving"

Synopsis

This article discusses the importance of enabling or disabling the option ?Auto populate labels when saving? in Installer UI >Look & Feel >Installer Steps.

Discussion

Enabling ?Auto populate labels when saving? will create a list of labels for every panel action each time the project is saved. Checking this option will ensure that the list of labels are automatically updated every time a project is saved, matching the current panel actions. Each Panel's Title is used for its corresponding label. These labels appear in the left side navigation menu of the installation screen during run time.

For example:

If the box for ?Auto Populate labels when saving? is checked and you add a Get User Input Panel (Get User Input Panel is only available in the Enterprise edition) in the Pre-Install sequence, as illustrated below:

Upon saving this project, you will see the label added as shown below:

Unchecking this option will result in the label list not being updated upon saving a project, when a panel action is added or removed.

Localizing Labels text for other locales:

Follow the steps below when customizing installer step label for different locales:

1. Go to Installer UI>Look & Feel> Installer Steps. Under List of Labels for Installer Steps, you will see the labels that you want to customize for the matching panel actions. Deselect ?Auto populate labels when saving? option. This option is checked by default.

2. Build the project for all intended locales.

3. Open the English locale ?custom_en? file with a text editor. The locale files are located in the build directory under the locales directory.

4. In the custom_en file, search for the text that you want to customize. For instance, to customize the above shown label ?Enter your name here? in the Get User Input panel, you would first search for ?Enter your name here? in the English locale file. You should see something similar to the following (the ID may be different):

 # Installer.f0575e4b90d7.installLabels.06=Enter your name here

   Installer.f0575e4b90d7.installLabels.06=Enter your name here

5. Let?s say, as an example, you are customizing a French installer. You would open the custom_fr locale file where you would find the matching entry. Make changes here to reflect the customization for the French locale:

 # Installer.f0575e4b90d7.installLabels.06=Enter your name here

   Installer.f0575e4b90d7.installLabels.06=Your French translation

6. Save this custom_fr file and rebuild the project.

7. Run the installer selecting the French locale. The installer step label with your translation will show at the left side navigation menu during run-time.

Auto Populate Labels when Saving