Chapter 7. Column Name Translation

The Payments table shows fields in the table and at the ribbon like AccountID, CompanyID, and ItemID.

Let's change these database field names to business names.

Switch to the payments-configuration workbook, select the ColumnTranslation worksheet and add the data:

 

Then switch to the payments workbook and click Options:

Choose the Default data language as English and click OK.

Of course, in your applications, you can use any language or even multiple languages.

 

Click Reload, Reload Data and Configuration.

The add-in shows Account, Company, and Item instead of AccountID, CompanyID, and ItemID.

You can turn off this feature in the Options dialog box as described above.

Setting data languages using VBA

The following code is used to change the data language and reload configurations on all worksheets:

' Sets a new language and reloads data and configurations, Chapter 7

Sub Chapter07_1_SetLanguage()

    Dim addIn As Object
    Set addIn = GetAddInAndCheck()

    If addIn Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

    addIn.Options.DefaultDataLanguage = "en-US"

    Dim ws As Worksheet

    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
        Call addIn.LoadAllSheetTables(ws, True)
    Next

End Sub

You can use the addIn.Options property to change other SaveToDB add-in options too.