The text in the system (menus, toolbars, field headings, enumeration options, labels, etc.) can be customized for an individual customer’s preferences.

For example, you might want to use the term “work order” instead of “Job”.

The text overrides are stored in text files on the APS server at the following location: [Program Files]\APS\Localization\TextOverrides

These files can be edited with a text editor such as Notepad.

Each line of the file contains two tab-separated values:

[the original text] [a tab character] [the override text]

Details:

• The text values are case sensitive (“Job” is different from “job”)
• The full original value must be found for a match and override to occur (The line “Job   Work Order” would NOT cause “My Job” to change to “My Work Order”.)
• After editing the file the APS Client Updater Service must be restarted then the clients must be restarted.
• If a line starts with three asterisks (***) then it will be ignored as a comment.
• There is a separate file for each language (English, Spanish, etc.) enabling overrides at the individual language level.  So, for example, if editing the Spanish file then specify the Spanish original text.  All of the language files must be present even if they are not in use or else an error will occur and be logged.  (Empty files are provided)
• Each original text value can only occur once. Duplicates will cause an error when logging in.

An example file’s contents:

*** These are my text substitutions

Job     Work Order

Jobs   Work Orders

Item   Part