Customization: Edit labels

[roffe]

I am customizing a SugarCRM installation where the users are not salespeople and work mainly with academic institutions, and I'd like to change _Account_ to _institution_. Is there a way to sort of change this other than walking through all the dialogs etc. in the module builder?

[andopes]

I am customizing a SugarCRM installation where the users are not salespeople and work mainly with academic institutions, and I'd like to change _Account_ to _institution_. Is there a way to sort of change this other than walking through all the dialogs etc. in the module builder?

Hi roffe

Can you clarify your needs in detail?

Cheers

[roffe]

Hi, andopes, thanks for commenting

Say that I would like _Account_ to be renamed _Institution_ throughout the site.

Does this mean that I have to manually change all labels, dialogs, and so on, or is there a mor efficient way to change all occurences?

[andopes]

Hi Roffe

If your SugarCRM is installed in a Linux machine you can do the following:

1. cd to sugarcrm installation folder;
2. execute the command: find -name "*.lang.php" | xargs grep -n "Account" | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sort | uniq

This command will return a list of all language files containing the "Account" string.

Then you may create an extended language file for each module containing that string and override as needed:
custom/Extension/modules/<ModuleName>/Ext/Language/<language>.ext.lang.php

After populating all files you may go to Admin -> Repair -> Rebuild Extension

Regards

[genius786]

Hi,

According to my understanding. I think you wants to change Accounts module with the name Institution throughout the site. So you have to follow the following steps:

1. Login in your sugarcrm as admin
2. Go to the admin panel of sugarcrm
3. Then click on Rename Tabs under Developer Tools
4. After it provide a display value Institution of accounts
5. Save it properly for changing

I hope this is help you



Best regards,

[mlanner]

andopes,

I'm looking to do the same as roffe. I followed your find example and found all the files.

In your post you say:

Then you may create an extended language file for each module containing that string and override as needed:
custom/Extension/modules/<ModuleName>/Ext/Language/<language>.ext.lang.php

Can you give an example of what that <language>.ext.lang.php file would look like? I'm new to SugarCRM and don't want to take any risks.

We have built a custom module, which uses the 'Account' module. I'd like to change all the instances of the label 'Account' to say 'Provider.'

Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.

[mlanner]

bump ... anyone?

[roffe]

Hi Roffe

If your SugarCRM is installed in a Linux machine you can do the following:

Thanks! That did the trick!

[WEB11]

That will rename only the main tabs. For an instance I ranamed my "Meetings" to "Appointments" the tab title shows up fine, but the page title is still Home:Meetings and all of the labels like "Create Meeting" didn't change. I will try AndLopes suggestion and try to find the language files. Im on windows using sugar on a remote webhosting account so it will proably be a bit tricky.

[WEB11]

What I ended up doing was to extract the sugar installation package to c:\sugar then I created a folder under c: named lang then ran the following at the command prompt:

xcopy C:\sugar\*_us.lang.php c:\lang /s

That copied all of the en_us.lang.php files and kept the folder structure, now I will use dreamweaver's find and replace by folder to rename the labels I need. It searches the entire folder without having to do it file by file then I can upload the entire folder via ftp and it will overwrite the old language files.