Edit or translate interface text

You can edit or translate the interface text of the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud to meet your company's needs.

You can work directly in the editor of Collibra, or you can copy the translation messages to a text file. You can then send the file to qualified translators, who probably don't have the required permissions to work in Collibra.

You can also add translations by placing an I18N file with translation messages directly into your server. In that case, the translation messages have to follow the Collibrastructure and the file name has to be the two-letter lowercase abbreviation of the languages as specified in ISO 639-1, for example nl.i18n for Dutch or ja.i18n for Japanese.

We recommend you use only one translation method. If you upload an I18N, and then edit translation messages in Collibra, you may not see the changes you expect.

Tip You can download files containing the translation of the Collibra interface into French, German and Spanish from the Downloads page of the Collibra website.

Note Message keys are not always backwards compatible with other Collibra versions. When you upgrade to a newer version, there might be new keys, renamed keys or keys that have been deleted.

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. On the main menu, click , then Settings.
    The Collibra settings page opens.
  2. Click General.
    The general settings appear on the Activities tab page.
  3. In the tab pane, click General → Language.
  4. At the top of the editor, choose the interface language.
    Note Languages that contain previously edited text are shown at the top of the drop-down menu.

    If you chose a previously edited language (), the editor contains the list of translation messages.
    If you chose a new language (), click Load Defaults to fill the editor with the default English UI text.

    Warning Clicking Load Defaults multiple times inserts multiple copies of the interface text, so only click it once.

  5. Edit or translate the interface text, or paste the content from your translation file.
  6. Click Save.

What's next?

You can choose the interface language in your account settings.