How to Internationalize Portal 8.1 Framework.

Question

Hi All,
I have internationalized Contents in Portlet. But I want to implement this:
1. Will have one portlet - which is like language selection portlet.
2. All dektop name, page name would be in english before Language selection.
3. Once language is selected, then Desktop,book and page and portlet tiltles names
has to be changed according to selected language.
I have created different locales and set appropriate titles for Desktops/Pages/Portlte
through Portal Admin tool. If i change the primary language setting through
IE Browser and try to access the desktop, it works fine.
Can somebody throw me some input on how can I go about doing this??
Any pointers welcome.
TIA,
Prashanth Bhat.

Answer 1

thanks a lot Alex. It worked. If you need code, pls do let me know. I will send
it to you.
Thanks again,
Prashanth Bhat.
"alex toussaint" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hi Prashanth,
I had a chance to go over this with our eng team this morning. Here is
what we
came up with:
You should consider creating a custom LocaleProvider. Here are the steps.
1) Write a class that implements com.bea.netuix.servlets.l10n.LocaleProvider.
The only required method is getLocales(ServletRequest request, ServletContext
context). Implement your functionality for selecting a locale in that
method (for
example: get a preferred locale from a request parameter).
2) Add <locale-provider>com.foo.bar.MyLocaleProvider</locale-provider>
to your
netuix-config.xml descriptor file. It should immediately follow the
<default-locale>
entry under <localization>
Hope this helps.
Regards,
--alex
"Prashanth Bhat" <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I think, backing file wont work because, thelocalized
value(which
was set through Admin Portal) is stored in Database. We need to somehow
set the
"language" in Framework JSPs so that localization takes place properly.
If I change the browser setting it works fantastic. If i think in the
same dierection
, we have to find out the way, how and where this is extracted from"request"
object and localization is set.
If i get an answer, i let you know. Pls help me in resolving this ASAP.
Thanks again for your help,
Prashanth Bhat.
"alex toussaint" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I will try to take a look at this in more detail tomorrow. However,I
think that
the answer may be around using either a backing file and programmatically
setting
the title on the portlet via PortletInstance or around setting the
locale
via
the LocalizationResource. You may want to experiment with backing files
in the
Tutorial App and check the JavaDocs on the two classes above.
--alex
"Prashanth Bhat" <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the reply. As i had mentioned in this mail, i can create
locale and
change the desktop name/portlet name /page name through Adin Tool.
This
is all
working fine provided I cahnge the browser setting to map the languge
and make
that languge as Primary language.
My problem is I cannot expect the USER to set his browser setting
to
take this
effect. Rather I will give a choice to USER to select language andthis
is avaialable
in "request" object. I extraxct the language from request object
and
then the
localization has to effect.
Pls see my code here.
request = ScopedServletUtils.getOuterRequest(request);
String language = request.getParameter("language");
<i18n:localize language="<%= language %>"/>
This could be done for all JSPs which are mapped as Portlets. Butin
a simialr
fashion, where to put <i18n:localize language="<%= language %>"/>for
"FRAMEWORK
JSPs".
As i told earlier, I could able to localize portlets, but not portlet
tilte, desktop
title,book and page title.
Can somebody help me in doing this.
TIA,
Prashanth Bhat.
"alex toussaint" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Prashanth,
Please see if thread #5640 helps.
--alex
"Prashanth Bhat" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have internationalized Contents in Portlet. But I want to implement
this:
1. Will have one portlet - which is like language selection portlet.
2. All dektop name, page name would be in english before Language
selection.
3. Once language is selected, then Desktop,book and page and portlet
tiltles names
has to be changed according to selected language.
I have created different locales and set appropriate titles for
Desktops/Pages/Portlte
through Portal Admin tool. If i change the primary language setting
through
IE Browser and try to access the desktop, it works fine.
Can somebody throw me some input on how can I go about doing this??
Any pointers welcome.
TIA,
Prashanth Bhat.