Show Trailing Delimiters Registry entry

Specify whether the language delimiter sequence should be displayed for trailing languages when there are no values in the trailing languages in a multi-language environment. This entry can be used in conjunction with the Show Empty Delimiters Registry entry to display every delimiter in every field even if there is no data in the field.

In a multi-language environment data is entered into a field in one language followed by the next, separated by a delimiter (and so on, for as many languages as required). In an environment with three languages for instance, data might be entered into a field as follows:

language 1;:;language 2;:;language 3

The Show Trailing Delimiters Registry entry specifies whether the language delimiter sequence should be displayed for trailing languages when there are no values in the trailing languages.

Tip: It is also possible to specify that the delimiter(s) display in empty fields (Show Empty Delimiters Registry entry). This can be very useful for data entry.

Note: The Show Trailing Delimiters Registry entry only works when All Languages are showing. This entry may be set on a system-wide, per user or group basis.

If we have a system that is configured, via the Supported Registry entry to handle two languages and we have a data value of:

Some data

there are two ways the data could be displayed:

Some data
Some data;:;

For the first case the value of the Show Trailing Delimiters Registry entry is false. In the second case it is true. The screenshot below shows data displayed where the Show Trailing Delimiters Registry entry is true:

Notice how all fields that contain a value now have a trailing delimiter. The setting does not apply to empty fields. The primary purpose of this entry is to allow users to append the next language to existing values without the need to enter the language delimiter.

Usage

This Registry entry can be assigned to users, groups and system-wide:

KeyUserGroupKeySystem
Key 1 UserGroup Key 1 System
Key 2 usergroup Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Setting Key 3 Language
Key 4 Language Key 4 Show Trailing Delimiters
Key 5 Show Trailing Delimiters  
Value boolean Value boolean
UseruserSettingLanguageShow Trailing Delimitersboolean
GroupgroupSettingLanguageShow Trailing Delimitersboolean
SystemSettingLanguageShow Trailing Delimitersboolean

where:

boolean

is true (delimiters are shown for trailing languages) or false (delimiters are not shown for trailing languages).

Note: If this entry is not present, a setting of false is assumed.

Examples

This entry specifies that the delimiter will display in every field in which the first supported language has data:

KeySetting
Key 1 System
Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Language
Key 4 Show Trailing Delimiters
Value true

This entry displays trailing delimiters for users in group Document:

KeySetting
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Document
Key 3 Setting
Key 4 Language
Key 5 Show Trailing Delimiters
Value true