System Texts

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See also: Working With Texts, Linked Texts

What are System Texts

System texts are used for a variety of purposes e.g. the “Select” list header text, system provided validation messages, texts within the upload page etc.

Maintaining System Texts

Even though the system texts are provided by the system, you have the option of configuring the individual texts and providing texts in additional languages.

• System texts are maintained on a server system using the Server Administration Application.
• System texts are located in the systemTexts folder in ebaseConf:

· Server (external): in userdata/apps/<webappname>/ebaseConf/systemTexts

· Server (embedded): in userdata/app/ebaseConf/systemTexts

Changing System texts dynamically 

A system text can be changed dynamically from a script as follows (this applies only to the form that issues the command). These examples change the list header system text (text id = 21). The Server Administration Application provides a description of what each text is used for and its corresponding id.

FPL

set text 21 = 'List header';

Javascript

system.texts.getText("21").text = "List header";