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Configure repository languages

Add the languages a repository stores content in — web and IGX diagram text, object names, and object Summary and Purpose fields — and choose its main language. Users pick their own content language in My Profile.

Prerequisites​

Steps​

In the Repository area, select Languages.

Add a language​

  1. Click Add.
  2. Pick the language. The list offers the Application-Supported Languages — the languages the product UI itself is translated into — followed by Other Languages, a catalog of further locales you can store content in.
  3. Confirm with Add. Existing content is not translated automatically; the repository can now hold translations in that language.

The repository Languages page with the language list and the Set Main, Delete, and Add buttons.

Set the main language​

Select a language in the list, then click Set Main. The main language is the repository's fallback: new content created by a user whose chosen language the repository does not support uses it, as do diagrams imported from repositories with unsupported languages.

Remove a language​

Select a language, then click Delete. All translations in that language are deleted — this can't be undone.

You can delete a language only when no items still use it as their source language — the language they were created in. While any do, the platform shows Cannot Delete and notes that items use the language as a source language. The repository's main language can't be deleted at all.

A neutral language code such as en is distinct from a regional one such as en-US, and a few items can end up with the neutral code as their source language — for example from an import. You can't change an item's source language in the UI, so to clear the extra language, either permanently delete those items (from the Recycle Bin, which needs the View All Deleted Objects right) or contact iGrafx support. There's no built-in report of which items use a given source language.

Limitations​

  • The main language cannot be changed while items are checked out to the iGrafx desktop client.