6 3 Development of Extended Naming Standards

6.3 Development of Extended Naming Standards

It is strongly recommended that naming standards cater for some special objects associated with developing multilingual applications.

Multilingual Variables (*MTXT variables)

A naming standard for multilingual variables should be established.

A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:

*MTXTttttnnn

where:

• tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:

• REPT - Report Title

• REPI - Report Instruction

• PANT - Panel Title

• PANI - Panel Instruction

• MSGT - Message Text

• and so on.

• nnn is an identifying sequence number.

Panel and Report Literals

Multilingual systems tend to have a large number of constants or literals defined as fields in the dictionary.

These are generally used for placing multilingual constants on screen panels and reports.

They usually have a default value that is established from a multilingual variable.

A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:

ttttnnn  

where:

• tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:

• REPT - Report Title

• REPI - Report Instruction

• PANT - Panel Title

• PANI - Panel Instruction

• MSGT - Message Text

• etc, etc.

• nnn is an identifying sequence number.

This standard would mean that multilingual variable *MTXTREPI007 would be defined as field called REPI007 in the data dictionary with a default value of *MTXTREPI007.