Change State to Province - works in some custom modules but not in others

[Ramblin]

I am setting up a Sugar CE (v6.2.1) in Canada and the address label used in Canada is Province instead of State.

I created a package called Event_Manager built initially in Module Builder with custom coding as required. It has 5 custom modules and relates to 2 existing modules : Contacts and Accounts. I want to change the State label to Province in all the modules, including the existing ones.

I have not been able to figure out how to use $app_strings to change the State field label globally (I know the code would be

<?php
$app_strings['LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
?>

but I cannot find any directory in the custom directories that makes any difference and I have tried many.
Is the $app_strings functionality deprecated/disabled?

so I put, the following code

<?php
$mod_strings['LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
?>

into a file called
en_us.state_to_province.php

in the language directory of my custom modules at
<sugar_root>/custom/Extension/modules/EvMgr_Fac/Ext/Language
(Module EvMgr_EV used as an example; the same file put into the same directories in the other custom modules)
I also added the required directory path for the existing modules into the custom directory and put the file in there as well.

After a Repair & Rebuild, the code does get consolidated into the en_us.lang.ext.php vardef file in each module, but it did not result in the label changing.

I then added the code

'LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE' = 'Province';

to the Module Builder package directly in
<sugar_root>/custom/modulebuilder/packages/Event_Manager/modules/EvMgr_Ev/language
and the State label did change in that module

I can use the Module Builder solution for the new custom modules but not for the existing modules so I do not have a working solution yet.

Can anyone tell me why the code added to the custom module directory is not working?

Ramblin

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

You have always to change/add the translation label in the near level to module which you want to translate.
So in your case I think you should open moules/your_module/language/your_language_file.php
and here include the correct translation, and then run repair and rebuild, it shoulod works.

If not works (but it had to) a more hard solution is just to set this label on runtime by some javascript function, but here a little programming is needed.

[Ramblin]

Thanks for the quick reply Rafael

Question:
I thought any changes made directly on the <sugar_root>/modules directory had the risk of being deleted in an upgrade and / or reDeploy from Module Builder or Studio?

I thought any custom changes had to be done in the <sugar_root>/custom/Extension/modules/Ext directory?

Richard

[Ramblin]

Well, I half solved the issue. I now have all the modules I want to show Province instead of State doing so. There are two labels that need to be defined by putting

<?php
$mod_strings['LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
$mod_strings['LBL_STATE'] = 'Province';
?>

into a file (i called en_us.state_to_province.php)

in the custom module directory at <sugar_root>/custom/Extension/modules/<module>/Ext/Language

I do not yet know why the $app_lists did not work so if anyone does figure that out please let me know but in the meantime, this is a brute-force method that works.

Ramblin

[andopes]

Person based modules (Contacts, Leads) has primary address (LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE) and alt address (LBL_ALT_ADDRESS_STATE), Company based modules has billing address (LBL_BILLING_ADDRESS_STREET) and shipping address (LBL_SHIPPING_ADDRESS_STREET).

Regards

[Ramblin]

Thank you André

So, for the rest of you reading this, the location into which this code goes is still in the custom module directory at
<sugar_root>/custom/Extension/modules/<module>/Ext/Language

and you can still use the file name you want so long as it starts with en_us. and ends with .php - I used
en_us.state_to_province.php

with the code

<?php
// Generic State label
$mod_strings['LBL_STATE'] = 'Province';
// State labels used when Person was originating template of a module
$mod_strings['LBL_PRIMARY_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
$mod_strings['LBL_ALT_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
// State labels used when Company was originating template of a module
//  Thanks to adpose for the additional information
$mod_strings['LBL_BILLING_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
$mod_strings['LBL_SHIPPING_ADDRESS_STATE'] = 'Province';
?>

I figure it does not hurt to define labels a module does not use and this way I just copy and paste the same file into each module.

Ramblin