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Portal Language Setting

Overview

The default portal language and the default language file are en-US.xml and English(U.S) respectively.
This setting is part of the portal-configuration file.

If the portal language is changed in the portal-configuration file, the selected language becomes the Portal language. However the Portal UI does not change unless the default labels and text-strings of the UI are replaced with those in the selected language in the portal-language file.

For every portal-language change, the <LanguageName>.xml file which contains all labels and text-elements used in the portal, should be edited.
For example the default English(US) text in the en-US.xml, must be replaced after it is suitably translated on paper or in a preferred digital file format, to the French language, in the fr-FR.xml to set up a French language portal.

Administrators can set the portal language by editing the configuration file.

 

Figure : Configure Portal Language

 

XML Section

Description

Example

&#60;language id&#62;
&#60;/language&#62;

Specify a language id to define the language of the portal.

1 = English, 2 = Spanish, 3 = French, 5 = Japanese,
6 = German, 7 = Chinese (Traditional), 8 = Italian,
9 = Dutch, 10 = Swedish, 11 = Korean, 14 = Chinese (Simplified),
15 = Portuguese,16 = Polish, 17 = Greek, 18 = Russian,
19 = Turkish, 20 = Danish

&#60;language id="1"&#62;English&#60;/language&#62;

&#60;language id="3"&#62;French&#60;/language&#62;

Table : Language IDs

Configuring a Language

  1. Login to Portal Administration.
  2. Click Edit in a portal's row in the Available Portals list.
  3. Click Configuration.
  4. Scroll to the Language section of the file.
  5. Set a language option as described in the example.
  6. Click Save. 

Note: By default, all verbiage is in English regardless of the portal's language configuration setting. It is the responsibility of the customer to translate the verbiage.