VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

Translations Search and Replace

Translations search and replace is used to change how text values ("strings") are shown in VSys. Unlike the Translations tool, these changes are made to strings at the very last minute and are applied after translations have been applied.

Why would you use this?

Not all objects can be updated using object renaming. For example, "Job group" can be renamed, but "Supervisor" cannot.
Text within strings, for example texts like "Required certifications" are usually but not always (depending on context) affected by renaming "certification" using object renaming.
Object renaming cannot apply different results for different languages.
The Translations tool affects only whole strings, not just parts of strings and must be set for every unique source string.

From the Setup panel under Translations, localizations and hints, open the Translations search and replace tool.

At the top you can filter by languages, showing just one language or all.

On the right-click menu

Right-click on an item in this list to edit its properties and for other tools.

Add	Adds a new search and replace rule.
Edit	Edits the selected rule.
Delete	Deletes (or un-deletes) the selected rule.
Move up/Move down	Order can be important in this tool. For example, you'd want a rule that affects "`Job group`" to be applied before (lower Order) "`Job`", since applying the rule for "`Job`" would make the "`Job group`" rule no longer applicable.

Rule details

Search	Value to be searched for in the source text.
Replace	If Value is found, it will be replaced by the contents of this field.
Language	The rule will only be applied when this language is being used.
Whole word only	Requires that the Search text not match only part of a word in the source text. For example, if Search is "`Skill`" and the text being updated is "`Skills required`", the rule will not be applied if Whole word only is checked.
Case sensitive	Use this option so an exact case match (upper vs. lower) is required before VSys will change a string.

For a search & replace where Whole word only is checked and Case sensitive is not, VSys will try to match the case of the first word when replacing For example, in the above, "job group" will be replaced by "department" and "Job group" will become "Department".

After saving your changes, you'll need to restart VSys for them to take effect.

The translations here are stored in the VSys One database and affect all users.