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398 • If you are using the GTK client, you just need to right-click the mouse while the pointer is in the field. Select Set as default from the pop-up menu. An administrator has the choice of making the default work just for that user, or for all users of the database. Figure 27.2: Inserting a new default value To check this new configuration, open a new partner form: the field Country should now contain the entry New Zealand . This is a very powerful feature An administrator can use this functionality to redefine the behavior of your whole system. You can test that in database openerp_ch13 by opening up a new Purchase Order form, clicking the second tab Delivery Invoicing, selecting From Picking in the Invoicing Control field and then making that the default. From that moment on, you would automatically create draft purchase invoices only when goods are received, so you could very easily restrict your accountants from paying any invoices that turn up until you were sure you had received the goods. It would not stop anyone from selecting another method of invoice control, but they would start with the default definition.

27.2.4 Changing the terminology

You can use Open ERP’s language translation functionality to substitute its standard terminology with terminology that fits your company better. It is quite straightforward to adapt the software with different terms specific to your industry. Moreover, this can strengthen acceptance of your new Open ERP system, because everybody will be able to retain their usual vocabulary. You can do this one of two ways: • translate them in a CSV file, which gives you a global overview of all of the system terms so that you can search and replace specific occurrences everywhere, • translate the phrases directly in the client, which means that you can change them in their context, and that can be helpful to you while you are translating. The same approach is used to translate terms that have not been created yet. This can be useful, for example, with modules that have not yet been translated into English or any other language that you want. Translation through a CSV file To translate or modify all of the system’s phrases you first have to export a translation file in CSV form. And to do that, you have to install a language into Open ERP. To load a translation that already exists in Open ERP use Administration → Translations → Load an Official Translation choose a language and then click Load.