Guided Buying Customer Success Session

Translations
Swetha Seenapura / Felipe Couto

Q1 2021
PUBLIC
 Benefits for customer

▪ Allows them to do their job better

▪ Reduces the stress in not knowing what to expect
▪ Help customers better understand common errors with Guided
Buying translations.
▪ Shows customer that we are putting forth maximum effort in
helping.

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 Agenda
What can be translated in Guided Buying
▪ Default fields​
▪ Commodity codes
▪ Non-catalog item classifier
▪ Landing pages
▪ Policies
▪ Forms

Official documentation

Q&A

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 Default fields
▪ Standard page names, fields and
messages, are translated
automatically by the SAP Ariba
localization team and added into the
application code.

Any change in these sessions

requires a code change, therefore, a
Service Request should be raised
reporting the problem

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 Commodity Codes

▪ Commodity Codes for all supported

languages are translated through the
Import Translations for System
Commodity Codes task in SAP Ariba
Buying solutions

Guided Buying uses the information

uploaded in Ariba Buying solutions to
display the translations according to
user’s location

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 Non-Catalog Item Classifier

▪ Translations are loaded via Import

Translations task in Buying
solutions.

The list of classifiers that are displayed

when opening the Category chooser on
the Guided Buying’s Non-Catalog
Request session
Guided Buying uses the information
Things to keep
uploaded in mind
in Ariba Buying solutions to
▪ display
Can include multiple CSVaccording
the translations files for different
to locales.
▪ user’s
No support for sub locals.
location
▪ Colum names matching.
▪ Character encoding.

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 Landing Pages
Translations of landing pages's title of tiles and tile's descriptions are done via
Guided Buying's Admin > Translation session
▪ Titles of tiles including form tile titles
▪ Done in the landingpagetitles.json file
▪ Descriptions of tiles, including form tile descriptions
▪ Done in the JSON filename that matches the landing page/form design ID).

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 Landing Pages
Things to keep in mind
▪ Open the browser's inspector tool when uploading the file
▪ ZIP file names representing a primary locale (de.zip, es.zip...).
▪ ZIP file contains folder with the same locale name.

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 Policy
Policy names, Messages, Justification
options and Request/accept quote
messages/justifications can be translated.

Things to keep in mind

▪ File name is case sensitive.
▪ Extra comma at the end of the line causes error.
▪ Policy description can't be translated.

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 Forms
All text that appears to end users when creating a form document, such as
form titles and instructions, field labels and hint text, dropdown field
options and error message text can be translated to any supported
language.

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 Forms
Things to keep in mind
▪ Download a file from the form design to see format and existing translations.
▪ Load a .strings file that has a JSON format.
▪ Update only the empty portion.
▪ Validating the content of uploaded translation files.
▪ Open the browser's inspector tool when uploading the file.

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 Translations Documentation

▪ How to load translations for your landing pages

▪ How to load translations for your policies
▪ Localization support in the forms builder

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Thank you!