Hi All

The French arm of the UK business I am working with are insistant that to meet French Legislation they need the French Localizations applied so that the self service screens will appear in French (Le Travaille-bench de Compensation anyone?). This is a single business group HRMS, Projects, SC and Financials install with no payroll implemented.

I have no experience of the French Localizations but I believe it is an "all or nothing" thing - once applied all self service AND PUI forms will be in French if you log in using the French responsibility (please feel free to roll about laughing if I am talking nonsense here - I know diddly about this).

The client is reluctant to have this happen! For a start they have a number of customisations which would need translating. They really want to do the bare legal minimum to keep their continental colleagues happy or, at least, quiet.

Am I right that it is an all or nothing thing or can you localise some parts of the app but not others? If it is all or nothing could we simply restrict it using responsibilities - they get the French bits for SSHR and the non French bits for core HR or Accounts Payable or whatever?

Has anyone had any experience of this?

Thanks in advance

Jo

I remember seeing on the login screen where you can choose between language(s) even before you login.
May be that is the key for you?

Have you installed multiple languages?

No idea - I will check.

Jo

The profile FND: Personlization Translate Language 1 offers French and through the self service preferences I can change my language to French but this translates only the buttons and navigation items not the field names.

I wish I knew what I was doing here!

Thanks for your help

Jo

check the query for installed languages

select * from fnd_languages

I think there is some bit DBA work involved in installing this.
Pls check on metalink

Jo,
have a look at this metalink note:
How to Install HRMS Legislative Data Using Data Installer and hrglobal.drv [ID 140511.1]
you can choose to install HR for France and that will give you access to the relevant responsibilities. From there you can create your custom ones. I'm not sure about Financlals and the others, sorry.
Regards,
Jairo

Hello Jo,

Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as you'd hoped. Also, please be careful not to mix your concepts. Having Oracle Apps present to users in French, and having the French HR Legislative packs in place are two different and independent things. As you are a single business group implementation, and the use of a particular legislation is defined at the business group level (anyone advise whether this has changed in R12?), you can't use both the French and UK legislation packs in a single business group.

A further thing to bear in mind is that if your company is employing personnel in France, and operates a French legislated business, then your company will have many specific government legislative reporting requirements. If these aren't catered for by your payroll provider, then you will probably need to manage them directly in HR. Unfortunately, these requirements can't be managed through Oracle HR unless you do operate a French business group, and French legislation.

Having said that, you can use multiple languages, (without using the French Legislative packs) and the application will present to a user in the language of their choice. Essentially, there are three stages that need to be gone through...

1. Ensure the database is multi-lingual -- I.e. is has the relevant patches in place for the French language -- and if not obtain the required database patches from Oracle and have your DBA install them.

2a. If the database isn't multi-lingual, then your Apps installation will not be either. Again, this involves getting the applicable patches from Oracle, and having them applied.

N.B. In both of the above cases, all relevant patches are available from Metalink.

2b. In conjunction with the above, you will probably need to change some Apps configuration at the FND/APPS/APPLSYS level.

3. Once all necessary patches and configuration actions have been applied, then your users will be able to select the language they want the application presented in through user level profile options, as well as through the preferences option in the self-service forms.

N.B. When applying any patches to your Apps in future, please be aware that you may need to get separate versions of the patch for each installed language.

There are several further points to be aware of...

1. The selection of a language by a user applies for the user, regardless of the responsibility they are using.

2. Customer data is NOT translated by the application of language packs. It is presented in whatever language it was entered. However, seeded data generally is.

3. Not everything in HR (or other functional areas) is translated. This particularly applies to flexfields, value set, lookups, etc. (except for seeded information), as these are customer data. Oracle provides a translation option where you can configure the flexfield names, values, etc. in multiple languages. This is available through the icon that looks like a globe at the top of your Apps window when in professional forms.

N.B. As regards the globe icon mentioned above, it only works when you have multiple languages installed and operating, otherwise you will get a message saying "Only one language is installed". If you are in a form which doesn't support the creation of values in multiple languages the icon is greyed out.

Regards,

Peter.

Very good points Peter. Yes, multiple business groups are still needed even on R12...
Regards,
Jairo