Building multilingual portal using WebCenter

Hi,
Can anyone point me to a good documentation on building multilingual portal using WebCenter? I found one for Spaces but I am developing custom portal using ADF resources. Thanks!

Hi.
WebCenter Portal Applications is an ADF application basically. You have to build your own multilingual solution based on:
- Labels in Resource Bundle configured in your WebCenter Portal Application.
- For Web Content showed in Content Presenter you have to define a WebCenter Content solution. It can be a "language" metadata to filter CMIS Queries.
- Locale can be managed in different ways:
- Session bean: Language should be associated to the session.
- User LDAP preferred language: Solution based in user preference language like Spaces.
- Browser locale: Set browser locale to your pages to set the language.
My recommendation steps to follow in order:
- First think in a WebCenter Content Solution for your contents and web assets.
- Second Think "how to store your labels" internally in Resource Bundle or Override Resource Bundle that can be changed at Runtime because are stored in MDS. Or you can create an UCM View to manage literals and access them from an app bean in WebCenter Portal.
- Think in your Java Bean that stores user "locale" and implement and strategy like Spaces. "Browser, preference or session language".
Be careful in your "change locale" bean because SiteResources labels are cached. What's the meaning of this? You have to create an ADF Listener who "clean" in prepareModel phase SiteResources Cache.
It's a common issue, follow A-TEAM Blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/ATEAM_WEBCENTER/entry/navigation_model_locale_dynamic_run
Another blog Entry of A-TEAM Blog for multilanguage contents: https://blogs.oracle.com/ATEAM_WEBCENTER/entry/internationalize_webcenter_portal_content_presenter
Regards.
Edited by: Daniel Merchán on 17-ago-2012 7:09

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