Customizing portal masthead

Question

Hi Team,
We have a requirement where in the user can change the portal language (English and German) after logging into portal by clicking on respective country flags which should be enable on masthead.  Portal personalization role is already enable for the users but they want a link directly on masthead for changing to language English and German.
Incase anyone of you worked on similar requirement can you please share the process/feasibility of the task and any cons in implementing this on masthead.
regards
Bharadwaja

Answer 1

Well i have not done simillar requirement but you can refer to SDN itself. If go to SDN masthead, there is any option for language change. On click of that option an url parameter is added and portal is redirected to it. Probably you can take idea from here.
It is actually calling a java script function ... below one
function changeLanguage(language){
        var url = document.location.pathname;
        var url1 = document.location.href;
        var langParameterName = 'language';
         var langParameter = langParameterName + '=';
        var lan = getUrlParameter(langParameterName, url1);
        var newUrl;
        // no language paramater set
        if (lan == null) {
            newUrl= url += '?' + langParameter + language;
        } else {
            newUrl = url1.replace(langParameter + lan, langParameter + language);
        document.location.replace(newUrl);
Edited by: Mahesh K on Nov 29, 2011 6:22 AM