change visual with the locale

fr34k2oo4

Hi,

I'm fairly new to AwareIM but I was wondering if there is a possibility to change the visual perspective when I select the Locale? if so, how?

and where is are the strings hidden for system messages like: "Select Language"?

thanks in forward.

Kind regards

aware_support

You cannot change visual perspective if you change the locale from the user interface. However, you can display different perspectives depending on the locale of the current user. This can be done by rules in a process.

The locale of the currently logged in user is in LoggedInSystemUser.Locale attribute and you can use the DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE action to display a visual perspective.

Different system strings should be among the strings of the locale (open the locale editor to view). System strings are green.

fr34k2oo4

Thanks,

The visual perspective is solved.

the problem with the system messages is that there are some messages en form names that are nog in this list.
When I click the Language Selection link in my menu a dialog pops-up to change the locale setting this form stays in english even if I change the locale. Any idea on this one?

Thanks again 🙂

fr34k2oo4

De perspective issue is not solved.

I created a process to change the perspective when the locale settings change.
this is the process rule:

If LoggedInSystemUser.Locale WAS CHANGED TO 'English' Then 
DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE 'Administrator EN'

If the above is correct where do I set it to trigger when the locale settings are changed?

thank you!

aware_support

All system strings must be in the list (unless there is a bug), but not all of them could have been translated, so you may need to find this string and translate it yourself.

As far as changing a perspective is concerned - what is it that you are trying to accomplish? Display a different perspective for different users, depending on user locale?

fr34k2oo4

Bug:
If all strings must be in the locale settings, then there is most definetly a bug. I've translated all English strings to Dutch strings. But when I've set the locale settings to Dutch and then click the Language selection link in the menu it pops-up a form that still has english labels.
draw:

|{icon} Language Selection [x]|

| Select your language: |
| ______________________________ |
| | Dutch |\/| |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| |
|____________________________________|

These strings (Language Selection & Select you language) can not be found in the locale settings, this also goes for the footer of the page that says:
user: {userName} | Business space: {businessSpace} |

Perspective Goal:
When I load a page I also load a static HTML page with it with some hyperlinks in them. These links are in english. So when a user changes his language settings the links are still english. To solve this problem I created another visual perspective to switch also when the user changes language. not my question is: how to trigger changing the visual perspective when a user changes language.

thanks in advance 🙂

aware_support

I suggest that you don't allow users to switch language dynamically through the UI. Instead let users specify their language (locale) when they sign up for the system (this will be the value of the Locale attribute in the RegularUser object).

So for every user that logs in you will know his/her locale. So to be able to display a different Visual perspective for different users, create a process:

If LoggedInSystemUser.Locale = 'Dutch' Then
DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE 'MyDutch_VP
ELSE If LoggedInSystemUser.Locale = 'French' Then
DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE 'MyFrench_VP

etc

Then get this process to be executed after the default VP is shown (check the General tab of the VP)

By the way, there is another way of doing it. If you just want to change the HTML that is displayed on startup, you may be better off creating different "presentations" for a RegularUser object. Then you will only have one VP and several presentations - one for each locale. The process above will display a presentation rather than a perspective.