Setup

To aid the administrators in deployment, each of the following topics are laid out in the order they should be considered when setting up an Aras Innovator multi-lingual, multi-locale use case.

Aras Innovator has two basic configurations for time zone support: Local Time Zone and Corporate Time Zone.

If your users access Aras Innovator from multiple time zones, you should configure Aras Innovator to have one corporate time zone that the Aras Innovator Server can reference. This time zone is used for calculating things such as when Project Activities become active.

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an Administrator.
2. From the TOC, select Administration --> Variables. The following menu appears:



3. Click Create New Variable. The Variable screen appears:



4. Set the Name = CorporateTimeZone.
5. Set the Value according to the registry key name associated with the required time zone.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones The following is a list of the time zone registry key names as of May 2008 for reference:

Standard Time	Standard Time	Pacific Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time	Ekaterinburg Standard Time	Pacific Standard Time ()
Arab Standard Time	Standard Time	Romance Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time	FLE Standard Time	Russian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time	Georgian Standard Time	SA Eastern Standard Time
Armenian Standard Time	GMT Standard Time	SA Pacific Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time	Standard Time	SA Western Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time	GTB Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Hawaiian Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Central Standard Time	Standard Time	Sri Lanka Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Cen. Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Central American Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time 2	US Eastern Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time	Mid-Atlantic Standard Time	US Mountain Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Central European Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time	Mountain Standard Time	Standard Time
Central Standard Time	Mountain Standard Time ()	W. Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time ()	Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	N. Central Standard Time	Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time	Standard Time	West Pacific Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	Standard Time
Standard Time	East Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time	Standard Time

6. Click Save and Done to unclaim the Variable Item.
7. Log out of Aras Innovator.
8. Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service on the server running the Innovator Server tier of Aras Innovator.
9. Restart the running Agent Services to synchronize the Time Zone Update to all the connected services.

Due to periodic changes to Time Zone information such as Daylight Savings, it is sometimes necessary to update the time zone data within Aras Innovator. Similar to Windows Updates, this new information needs to be loaded into your system. Use the following procedure to update the time zone data for your instance:

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an administrator.

Click the login icon



. The following menu appears:



2. Select Actions>Update timezones data. The following dialog appears:

Aras Innovator has the ability to store properties as ‘Multi-Lingual Properties’. A multi-lingual property stores multiple values for the same property. The value displayed is based on the language defined in Aras Innovator for your Locale. In most cases, if there is no value for a specific language, the value for the default language (English) is shown.

The first step to using multi-lingual properties is to define the Language Item in Aras Innovator.

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an administrator.
2. From the TOC, select Administration --> Localization-> Languages. The following menu appears:



3. Click Create New Language. The following screen appears.



4. Enter the following information into the fields:
• Code = The letter ISO code that identifies the language. For example, ‘ja’ for Japan
• Name = The name of the language for reference in the keyed name. For example, Japanese
• Suffix = The identifier for differentiation of one language from another in a multi-lingual property. For example,’_ja’ for Japanese
• Collation = This property is used to set custom sorting rules for each language column at the database level. A null value for collation should simply means that there is no custom collation for that column.
• Direction = The direction that the language is read in. For example, if the language is English, you would select “ltr” from the dropdown list.

Click



and



to save and unclaim the language item.

The second step to adding a language is to update the xml resources that define the menus, toolbars, and user interface elements.

In Aras Innovator only the English locale is defined by default. You must define additional locales in the database.

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an administrator.
2. From the TOC, select Administration > Localization>Locales. The following menu appears:



3. Click Create New Locale. The Locale screen appears:



4. Enter the appropriate information in the following fields:
5. Code = The culture code for locale. For example,’ja-JP’ for Japan
6. Name = The name of the locale.
7. Language = The language item that is referenced by users with this locale on their client PC machines. For example, ‘Japanese’ from section 0 Adding a Language.

Click the



and



buttons to save and unclaim the item.

8. Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service on the server running the Innovator Server tier of Aras Innovator.