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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +0000

Hi, I find your explanation very usefull. I wonder if you could write the sqlplus code to achieve tasks c),d), e) in production (Seed and export the translation text,upload xliff and publish), lets say to automate the translation process in a script. Thank you in advance. Gissel

By: Byte64

Byte64 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:43:00 +0000

Hi Jan,that’s an important thing to keep in mind, as well as the fact that, according to the online help, you can’t pick an application ID ending with a zero digit, i guess that Apex is doing some trickery using mod(app_ID,10), who knows. I never investigated or asked the rationale behind the application ID number that Apex spawns when you create a new application, but i presume they are not simply random numbers. At any rate, on one hand it must be said that generally speaking, Apex is very flexible with the handling of this numbers, except for this case, although i have never been a fan of design models where application numbers “mean” something, like 10 is development, 100 is test, 1000 is production or stuff like that. I prefer to have distinct boxes where applications have the same number, but i do understand it’s not always possible. For instance, all my production sites are hosted at http://www.shellprompt.net and in more than one occasion it happened i couldn’t keep my original application number because it was already taken. Rather than keeping two distinct numbers, i got the new one from the production environment and i used it in development too, changing the existing one. On the other hand, Apex could have used the application alias to do the mapping, giving some more flexibility in terms of numbers, but that’s not what we currently have.In the end, they (the Apex team) had to figure out a mechanism that would fit most cases, so either they didn’t worry about the conflicting IDs problem or they thought there were other options available anyway.Thanks for the comment and come back from time to time!Flavio———————-Annals of Oracle’s improbable errors.

By: Karen Van Hellemont

Karen Van Hellemont — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:30:00 +0000

If you want to deploy your multilingual application, choose the same APP_ID’s for production environment, like you used in development environment.Suppose that during the import process into the production environment, you choose another APP_ID for the primary application, than step “c)” in the given example is not true anymore. You will notice, however, that the mappings with the two other translated applications (145 and 146) are not created. Even if you create these two mappings manually afterwards and if you seed, export and upload the xliff-files like explained in steps “d)” and “e)”, your application will not be translated…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:44:00 +0000

Hi Jan,I see you’re using APEX a lot lately. Great!Hope to see you once in Belgium in real-life Dimitri