Localization

About Localization

Localization is the process whereby a user interacts with platform using their preferred language and data formats.

Working with Localized Values

Platform Settings

The Locale Settings

• My Settings > Locale Information - Formats chosen by the user for dates, times, and numbers, plus language.
• User Settings - Formats set for the user by the admin.
• Company Information Settings - Default user formats, and the Currency format, which can be changed only by an admin.

The Translation Workbench can be used to support additional languages.

Interface Interactions

When working with the platform GUI, data is typically displayed and entered in User Format, as determined by the user's Locale Settings.

There are exceptions, however. When specifying numeric values that will be used in a direct comparison against database data.
In those cases, the Database Format must be used:

• Entering Search data
• Specifying Filter Criteria for a View
• Supplying values for an Import operation
• Specifying values in a Rule that fires before data is committed to the database.
  (Rules that fire after data is committed see data in Database Format.)

Note: Dates are always specified in the User's preferred format, even when searching and filtering.

REST Programming

When using the REST API, all data is specified in Database Format:

Field	Format
Date, DateTime, Time	UTC Format
Currency, Number, Number with Decimal, Percent	No currency symbol or percent sign No grouping characters (e.g. commas) in whole-number portion A decimal point (.) before fractional portion Ex: 84954.32
Lookup	The Record ID of a record in the target object. Ex: 123A456B78
Multi Object Lookup	An Object ID, to identify the target object, a colon, and a Record ID. Ex: 849Z:123A456B78