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Dec 5, 2007 06:48
16 yrs ago
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French term

masques d'écran

French to English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology) software/programming
This is in a business process document describing a process for modification to software/programming or set-up of new programmes. It's one item in a list of what is included in the process. Could it be screensavers or screen resolution, or am I missing the point with both of those? I have spent ages looking on the internet but am now at a loss!
Proposed translations (English)
4 Data entry forms
4 +1 screen forms
2 screen layout
Change log

Dec 5, 2007 09:03: writeaway changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Dec 7, 2007 03:59: Emanuela Galdelli changed "Term asked" from "masques d\'ecran" to "masques d\'écran"

Discussion

rkillings Dec 7, 2007:
Why didn't you consider "screen masks", the obvious English source of the French term?
Kerensa Cracknell (asker) Dec 5, 2007:
Full sentence is.... Cette procédure s’applique à toutes les demandes de modifications de logiciels internes, externes, de masques d’écran, de créations ou de modifications d’états et d’options de consultation

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): masques d'ecran
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Data entry forms

I believe this is refering to the creation and modification of data entry forms.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks - this seems to fit, given the context"
50 mins
French term (edited): masques d'ecran

screen layout

I believe it is simply the way in which the screen is set up, but far from sure

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-12-05 07:50:26 GMT) Post-grading
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It is always worth waiting a little longer before closing questions so as to receive the maximum input. Data entry does fit but is perhaps too specific?
Note from asker:
Thanks Bashiqa - this could also fit.
Agree but the job was due in half an hour ago...I had to make a decision!
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : No, the use of the word 'masque' very specifically refers to the idea of a 'template' that you 'fill in' (i.e. some bits are fixed and cannot be changed, like this KudoZ page!)
3 hrs
Quite right Tony "Screen template" would seem ideal
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2 hrs
French term (edited): masques d'ecran

screen forms

This is what we called it when I worked for a French software developer. As one of their developers explained it to me, a "masque d'écran" is what the user sees, the more user-friendly format that covers up all the developers' code like a mask, and is like a form that you fill in with entry fields, check boxes, radio buttons and the like.
Reference:

http://calendar.tntech.edu/tips.html

http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~pmogin/ICSOFT_2006.pdf

Note from asker:
Thanks - I used data entry forms in the end, which was what we called them when I was a software consultant in a former life! Same thing as screen forms really. Thanks for the links - very useful.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M
2 hrs
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