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Customize labels and translations

Every text in Hamilton Apps — menu names, field labels, buttons, messages — is a label you can reword. Rename "Resident" to "Employee", adapt terms to your industry, or fix a translation, per language.

Before you start

  • You need administrator rights on the portal.

  • Labels are edited per language: the editor changes the labels of the language you are currently using. To customize another language, switch the display language first (language selector in the top right corner), then open the editor.

Open the label editor

  1. Sign in to Hamilton Apps and click your name in the top right corner, then Settings.

  2. In the administration menu, click "Label editing".

Find and change a label

  1. Type the text to find in the Label field — the word or sentence as it appears on screen.

  2. Click the search icon. The matching labels appear in a table with two columns: Label (the technical name) and Content (the displayed text).

  3. Edit the Content of the labels you want to change.

  4. Click Validate. Your wording replaces the default text for all users, in the current language.

Tick "Only the modified ones" and search again to review everything your organization has already customized.

Apply and maintain your changes

  • Rebuild the label file: after validating changes, click "Rebuild the label file" and confirm. This regenerates the label cache so all sessions pick up the new texts.

  • Reset: click Reset and confirm to delete all customizations and return every label to its default text. Use with caution — this cannot be undone.

Customize the applications' labels

The portal editor covers the portal screens (sign-in, site and application selection). Each application has the same "Label editing" tool for its own screens:

  1. Open the application (Hamilton Meeting, Visitor or Security).

  2. In the left menu, click Administration, then "Label editing" in the Settings section.

  3. Search, edit and validate exactly as described above.

Good to know

  • A label reused on several screens changes everywhere at once — search for the exact on-screen text to identify it safely.

  • Customized labels survive product updates; new labels introduced by updates keep their default text until you customize them.

  • Keep customizations consistent across languages: apply the equivalent change in each language your users have.

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