NODBC - MultiLanguage

cure

Hello everybody, can NODBC handle Multilanguage? It was a question at the Navision Solution Development C/Side 4.0 Test.

Thanks a lot, Curdin

Luc_VanDyck

I read the following in Doc\w1w1nodbc.pdf on the Product CD:

3.5 MULTILANGUAGE FUNCTIONALITY

The Navision ODBC Driver handles the multilanguage functionality in Navision. The
Navision ODBC Driver can retrieve the application data from Navision in different
languages independent of the current Navision application language.

When you are running Navision ODBC and you open the ODBC Data Source
Administrator window from the operating system’s Control Panel, you can set up the
Navision ODBC Driver as described on page 5. Use the Language field properties to
set up the connection appropriate to the user.

C/SIDE uses the following hierarchy when showing the application data:

1 Global language
2 Primary language of global language
3 Application language
4 Primary language of application language.

For more information about multilanguage functionality, see the manual Application
Designer’s Guide.


Specifications

The Navision ODBC Driver covers the following multilanguage features:
· Table name
· Field name
· OptionString value

When you link a table by selecting an application language other than the default
language and this language has a corresponding output from Navision, you will notice
that the value of the table name, all the field names, and the option fields within that
table are shown in the language you selected.


Limitations

You cannot use the Navision ODBC to create a table with multilanguage Caption
properties. This means that no matter what language has been chosen in the Options
box in the Navision ODBC Setup window, the table that is created for any Navision
ODBC application will use the Name property. No Caption property can be written to
the application database.

You will not be able to change the language choice in real-time mode. Navision ODBC
can only accept one setting at the time of loading. To switch the language when using
the Navision ODBC Driver, you must to close the Navision ODBC connection and
thereby release it from the memory, change to the preferred language in the Options
box in the Navision ODBC Setup window, and start the Navision ODBC connection
again.

So I guess the answer to this one is YES.

cure

for the quick answer.

have a nice day, bye

curdin