Customize Secure Client GUI text and messages

Customizing GUI text and messages helps provide a localized user experience or incorporate organization-specific branding in the Secure Client client. This customization is applied through translation files that contain message strings and their corresponding customized versions.

Before you begin

Configure one or more remote access VPN policies.

Procedure

Step 1

Download the base template or translation file,such as AnyConnect.po, either from the Secure Client package or from the Cisco website.

Step 2

Use a text editor to add the translations or customize the labels or messages.

Step 3

Update the msgstr string corresponding to each msgid.

Step 4

Save the file.

Step 5

Create a Secure Client customization object.

  1. Choose Objects > VPN > Secure Client Customization.

  2. Click Add Secure Client Customization.

  3. Enter the name and description for the customization object.

  4. From the Customization Type drop-down list, choose GUI Text and Messages.

  5. From the Language drop-down list, choose a language for which you are adding the translation.

  6. Click Browse and select the translation file. Supported file extensions are .po, .mo, and .txt.

Step 6

Add the customization object to the remote access VPN policy.

  1. Choose Secure Connections > Remote Access VPN.

  2. Click the edit icon of the remote access VPN policy.

  3. Click the Advanced tab.

  4. In the left pane, click Secure Client Customizations > GUI Text and Messages.

  5. Click + to select the customization object.

  6. Click OK.

Step 7

Click Save.

Step 8

Choose Deploy > Deployment and deploy the policy to assigned devices. The changes become active only when you deploy them.

What to do next

Verify the Secure Client customizations. For more information, refer to Verify Secure Client customizations.