Restrict available languages in portal

Question

Hello forum,
We operate EP 60_SP14 and want to restrict the available languages in the portal.
In the logon screen, the language is detected based on the client browser setting; we can do without this 'automatic' detection and prefer to have a localized logon page that is displayed in the default locale/language.
Is there a possibility to restrict available languages/locales by a method such as to set the default locale (Re: Change default English Locale)
Additionally, if we could provide our users with the possibility to choose which language they want to log on with this would be a plus. We have set ume.logon.locale=TRUE (in UME properties) so that a language selection box is displayed on the logon screen, but this box contains all the languages.
Is there a possibility to restrict this list (in the logon screen) such as you can do within the portal (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/49/e607426338da6fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm)?
Thanks for your hints!
Kind regards,
Walter

Answer 1

Hello Detlev,
We need to provide access to the portal in two languages only; our default language is dutch (nl) and we want to provide users with the possibility to switch to english.
Therefor, I would like to switch off the automatic language detection and don't use any setting the browser sends, but rather just use 'nl' as the language in which the logon screen is displayed. (we can and will accept the fact that the logon screen is only in dutch).
Instead of translating the logon-screen however, I think that forcing the language to 'nl' is a more neat solution. For example, is there a possibility to set the portalapp.xml property <property name="ForcedRequestLanguage" value="nl"/> for the logon screen somewhere?
Would we not be able to force the language into dutch then removing the language bundles could be a solution. Can you direct me to instructions on how to do this neatly? I guess that just removing the language bundles will still leave me with all the languages selectable in the combobox at the logon screen.
Finally, setting the ume.logon.locale option seems to work; the combobox from the logon screen allows us to select a language without problems. Instead of manually edit-ing the code; I want to restrict languages in this box to Dutch and English.
Thanks so far!
Kind regards,
Walter