Language dropdown in logon page

[Former Member]

Dear All,

I woould like to know what are the parameters we set for language drop down in portal logon page.Also can we see the transfer forms under MSS in the logged in language.

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Santosh,

please check once the following notes are applied in your scenario.

980522 Umlaut is not displayed in Interactive Form

994045 Non-Latin-1 characters in PDF forms

963063 Special characters not allowed in the name (create form)

950271 Translation process in SFP

837217 Update of translation process

917483 Translation update

864990 Form Builder: Layout translation settings

876203 ISR Layout translation

Just check once and revert back. All the above notes are for language translation.

Regards,

Umesh Chaudhari

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[Former Member]

You have two separate questions

1. Introducing language dropdown in logon page.

To do that you have to edit the property ume.logon.locale in configtool which is available under ume properties

The link below is for that purpose of editing any ume property

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e5/618a3eacd49076e10000000a114084/content.htm

Remember as the property name indicates it is logon locale. So changing this will not affect Portal user langauge .

2. When you log into Portal the MSS Pages will display language based on Portal user language . So for this purpose, you have to write additional code to change logon language according to value selected in dropdown.

I would typically write an additional module which changes the user language after he is authenticated or may be set it an existing component which is called when user logs in.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

Just for a test when i logged in with the http://sapsrv.hexchn.local:50200/irj/portal?ume.logon.locale=de URL i can see the content in the german language but when i click on form under MSS -> Team->Personal change request i am not able to see the form in german language. Could you plesae let me know wheren i need to code.

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member]

For your situation the best option which I see is change Portal user language.

According to dropdown set a cookie. Based on cookie set language in an application.

One option is to set language in a masthead and make the portal page refresh when its loading for first time. However as long as user is logged in dont change refresh page again.

Other option is to set language in a custom logon module which is called after the initial logon form is authenticated.

I can right now think of only these two options if you want to proceed without customizing MSS Iviews themselves. If you can customize MSS Iviews, pick up language from cookie and call the resource bundle corresponding to this language to display texts.

Yes there is one more option.

Examine this application-

com.sap.portal.navigation.portallauncher.default

Check whether you can set user language here I think this component is called after logging in and before rendering Portal . I have not tried , so I cant be sure of this.

[Former Member]

Check this link out

If you read through this, you will be able to figure out how.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/44/42c08f81ce2152e10000000a114a6b/content.htm

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

Could you please explain me about how to change the language in MSS PCR form.

Thanks

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member]

Dear Santosh,

Check up if your backend user language is same as portal language.

If both are same then there should be no issues.

Cheers!

Harish

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

I have checked the language both are same.Then too it is not coming .The forms are displayed in English language . Any clue on these.

Thanks

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member]

Hi Santhosh,

The PCR forms are developed in the backend. If they had maintained the parameters for language change there, i think you can see them in the respective language.

Also, to change portal language, some of the suggestions said in this forum will not work (eg: Language drop down on the logon page). One way to change the user language is to change it in the personalization link on the top.

Regards,

Ak.

[Former Member]

Hi Arun,

Thanks for reply.

Could you please let me know exactly where i need to check in backend. Also i tried for personlize option in iview but language option is not coming there, its only page layout is coming.

Thanks

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

I am looking to change the portal logon page to add an additional dropdown for language selection. I've got the drop down by setting the UME locale, but I am not able figure it out how to read this value and update user master with this value.

Please let me know how to do this, thanks a lot.

Regards,

Seshu.