How to Configure SCO POS Language Selection
Introduction
This configuration guide provides comprehensive instructions for enabling and managing language selection within the Enactor Self-Checkout (SCO) POS application. The guide details the process for configuring locale selection at the start transaction screen, including the creation of new menus and menu events to support multiple languages.
Overview
This guide will cover the configuration for the following:
- SCO Language Selection - Displays alternative languages on the welcome screen of the SCO.
Prior Training / Experience
You should be familiar with the following:
- Estate Manager Configuration
- SCO Configuration
- Data Broadcasting
- Menus, User Roles and Images
Configuration Steps
This guide describes how to configure the SCO (Self-Checkout) Language Selection feature, enabling the system to display language options for user selection.
Menus
To enable the use of the above language selection feature, appropriate Menus and Role privileges should be configured separately.
The Menu Maintenance application can be accessed through:
Configuration → System → Menus
Select Create New Menu
Set the appropriate values as follows:
| Configuration | Example Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Menu Set | POS | Select the appropriate Menu Set |
| Role | Self Checkout System Role | This should align with the role associated to your SCO user |
| Menu Group | Default Standard POS | Select the appropriate Menu Group |
| Locale | - | |
| Menu ID | SCO_LANGUAGE | The menu ID MUST be set to SCO_LANGUAGE |
Select Add to add a new button.
The following parameters should be set to create a new language on the SCO_LANGUAGE menu.
| Configuration | Example Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Event | Defines the type of menu |
| Event | SwitchLocale | Defines the Menu event |
| ID | English | Defined the menu ID |
| Button Label | English | Defined the menu button label |
| Image URL | Image://FLAGS/en-GB.png | URL for the flag image |
| Pressed Image URL | Image://FLAGS/en-GB.png | URL for the flag image |
Configuring Menus and configuring Images are further described in separate How-to Guides.
Select the Data tab
The following parameters should be set in the Data tab
| Configuration | Example Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Country | UK | Country Code |
| Language | En | Language Code |
| Description | English(UK) | A human-readable description of the selected language and region. |
Repeat this process for any additional languages.
Roles
The User Role maintenance application can be accessed through:
Configuration → HR → User Roles
Authorisation to run the specific functionality documented here is selection menu to display on the welcome screen, the SCO user must have the same role that corresponds to the role in the menu's configuration,i.e Self Checkout System Role.
Broadcasting
To deliver the configuration changes to the POS, broadcast the following entities.
- Menu
- Images
- Role
POS Functionality
Following is the SCO screen where the languages can be selected as configured:
