Globalize your On Demand Business

Users can define their preferred user language by selecting File-Preferences-Notes preferences and then selecting their preferred language under 'Content Language.' If the user selects more than one language, he must organize them in order of preference, with the most preferred language at the top of the list. The selected language is the one the Domino server will use as the default language for displaying multilingual applications.

How Domino 6 serves multilingual applications
Domino 6 serves multilingual applications (whether unilingual or multilingual), based on the language preference of the user, as defined in the user's client (Notes R5 client, Internet Explorer, or Netscape Navigator). It serves the application in the user's preferred language regardless of whether the localized database was generated manually using Domino Designer or automatically using Domino Global WorkBench. In a multilingual database, users will see the design elements in their preferred language (or the default language if their preferred language is not supported by the database):

• If the end user is accessing the database using Notes, the language displayed is based on the first language selected in the Content Language setting of the Notes client.
• If the end user is accessing the database using Internet Explorer, the user language is selectable in View-Internet-Options-General-Languages.
• If the end user is accessing the database using Netscape Communicator or Netscape Navigator, the user language is selectable in Edit-Preferences.

In either case, Domino 6 will try to display the database in the highest selected language that is available in the database. If none of the languages selected by the user is supported by the database, the user will see the default language.

Helpful Hints on Synchronizing Databases with DGW

Here are some additional facts abou thet Domino Global WorkBench synchronization process to keep in mind:

• Whether a multilingual site consists of several unilingual databases or a single multilingual database, in order to be synchronized, the databases for the site must be built from a single source database.
• If a set of unilingual databases is to be synchronized, all the databases need to be located in the same directory on a deployment server, where the Synchronizer can run on them.
• When you add synchronization features to a database, Domino Global WorkBench applies the features to all the language databases created from the source database. There is no partial synchronization concept in Domino Global WorkBench 6 .
• You can create one set of synchronized databases from a source database and one set of non-synchronized databases from the same source database, but this requires the use of separate projects in DGW for the two sets of databases. A corporation might want two such sets in order to create a synchronized Web site for one group of countries, while allowing organizations in other countries to run their Web sites independently. Business Partners who resell multilingual-based applications could also use such a process when deploying their applications -- each deployment could utilize a different configuration, either synchronized or not, based on customer requirements.
• Synchronization can only take place between unilingual databases or within a multilingual database; a unilingual database cannot be synchronized with a multilingual database in this release.

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