Enabling users to set a language preference

Enable users to set a language preference
By default, the IBM Connections user interface (UI) is displayed in the language identified in the locale settings of the web browser being used. You can set it up to allow users to explicitly select the language in which the product is displayed.

Before starting
Before starting this procedure, determine which subset of supported languages you want to support. For a full list of the languages that are supported by IBM Connections, see Supported languages.

About this task
After performing this procedure, users can select a language from the language selector in the product's menu bar.
You can also use this configuration to force the user interface to be displayed in only a single language. For example, to display the user interface in French only, you can use the following settings: enabled=true, defaultLanguage=fr, and make sure that no language elements are defined.
To enable users to set their language preference...

Procedure
Start the wsadmin client from the following directory of the system on which you installed the deployment manager:

app_server_root>\profiles\<dm_profile_root>\bin
Note: You must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that you try to run will not execute properly. See Starting the wsadmin client for more details.

Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the IBM Connections configuration files.

Enter the following command to access the IBM Connections configuration file: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")

If prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path, pick the node where the file is stored. This information is not used by the wsadmin client when you are making configuration changes.

Check out the IBM Connections configuration files:

LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("<working_directory>","<cell_name>")
where:

<working_directory> is the temporary working directory to which the configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use forward slashes to separate directories in the file path, even if you are using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
AIX and Linux only: The directory must grant write permissions or the command does not run successfully.

<cell_name> is the name of the WAS cell hosting the IBM Connections application. This argument is case-sensitive, so type it with care. To obtain the cell name:print AdminControl.getCell()

For example:

AIX or Linux:LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/temp","foo01Cell01")
Microsoft Windows:LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/temp","foo01Cell01")

Navigate to the working directory that you specified in the previous step and open the LotusConnections-config.xml file in a text editor.
Find the <languageSelector> element, and then make the following changes:
Change the value of the enabled attribute from false to true.
By default, the defaultLanguage attribute is blank and the product user interface is displayed in the language specified as the preferred language by each user's web browser. You can use the defaultLanguage attribute to define a fallback language in which to display the user interface if the preferred language is not one that is supported by IBM Connections. The language that you specify here is displayed in the language selector in the product's navigation bar. Specify the language using the exact strings listed in the example below.

Note: Use the language code iw to specify Hebrew.

The default cookie name is lcLang. To change it, specify a name in the cookieName attribute.
No cookie domain is used by default, but you can specify a domain by adding the domain name of your deployment as the value of the cookieDomain attribute. The domain name must be a valid, fully qualified domain name of the server where the cookie resides. For example: .acme.com. Note that the domain name begins with a period (.). When you provide this value for the cookie domain property, you enable the language setting to work across multiple servers, such as both profiles.acme.com and activities.acme.com.
By default, the cookie persists for the duration of the web browser session. To create a persistent cookie that has an expiry date of ten years from the date it was created, set the usePermanentCookie to true.
Within the <languageSelector> element, add one <language> element for each language that you want users to be able to select from the language selector list in the product menu bar. Include a lang attribute that specifies the ISO country code associated with the language. Provide the language name as it should be displayed in the list as the value of the language element. Specify non-Latin characters in JavaScript-escaped unicode format. You can only specify languages that the product supports. For a list of languages, see Supported languages.
Also, remove any of the language elements that are included in the languageSelector element by default if you do not want them to be displayed from the drop-down list of language options in the product menu bar. They are English, French, Chinese, and Arabic. For example:
<languageSelector 
 enabled="true" 
 defaultLanguage="" 
 cookieName="conxnsCookie"
 cookieDomain=".acme.com" 
 usePermanentCookie="true">
  <language lang="en">English</language>
  <language lang="zh">\u4e2d\u6587\uff08\u7b80\u4f53\uff09</language>
  <language lang="zh_tw">\u4e2d\u6587 (\u7e41\u9ad4)</language>
  <language lang="ja">\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e</language>
  <language lang="ko">\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4</language>
  <language lang="fr">Fran\u00e7ais</language>
  <language lang="de">Deutsch</language>
  <language lang="it">Italiano</language>
  <language lang="es">Espa\u00f1ol</language>
  <language lang="pt_br">Portugu\u00eas (Brasil)</language>
  <language lang="cs">\u010ce\u0161tina</language>
  <language lang="da">Dansk</language>
  <language lang="nl">Nederlands</language>
  <language lang="fi">suomi</language>
  <language lang="el">\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac</language>
  <language lang="hu">Magyar</language>
  <language lang="no">Norsk (Bokm\u00e5l)</language>
  <language lang="pl">polski</language>
  <language lang="pt">Portugu\u00eas (Portugal)</language>
  <language lang="ru">\u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439</language>
  <language lang="sl">slovenščina</language>
  <language lang="sv">Svenska</language>
  <language lang="tr">T\u00fcrk\u00e7e</language>
  <language lang="iw">\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea</language>
  <language lang="ar">\u200f\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\u200f</language>
  <language lang="ca">Catal\u00e0</language>
  <language lang="kk">\u049a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u049b\u0448\u0430</language>
  <language lang="th">\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22</language>
</languageSelector>
The following table identifies the languages based on the lang property value:
Table 1. Language code values

Lang property value Language
ar Arabic
ca Catalan
cs Czech
da Danish
de German
en English
el Greek
es Spanish
fi Finnish
fr French
hu Hungarian
it Italian
iw Hebrew
ja Japanese
kk Kazakh
ko Korean
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
pt_br Brazilian Portuguese
ru Russian
sl Slovenian
sv Swedish
th Thai
tr Turkish
zh Simplified Chinese
zh_tw Traditional Chinese
Save your changes to the LotusConnections-config.xml file.
After making changes, check the configuration files back in and do so during the same wsadmin session in which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Apply common configuration property changes for information about how to save and apply your changes.
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Lang property value	Language
ar	Arabic
ca	Catalan
cs	Czech
da	Danish
de	German
en	English
el	Greek
es	Spanish
fi	Finnish
fr	French
hu	Hungarian
it	Italian
iw	Hebrew
ja	Japanese
kk	Kazakh
ko	Korean
nl	Dutch
no	Norwegian
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
pt_br	Brazilian Portuguese
ru	Russian
sl	Slovenian
sv	Swedish
th	Thai
tr	Turkish
zh	Simplified Chinese
zh_tw	Traditional Chinese