topic Re: how to change language of alfresco share in Alfresco Archive

how to change language of alfresco share

bsaric — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:46:56 GMT

OK, i have managed to ad another language besides english to alfresco explorer but I just cant seem to change the language of alfresco share.My web-client-config-custom.xml file looks like this:<!– Example of adding languages to the list in the login page –> <config evaluator="string-comp

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

jayjayecl — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:53:22 GMT

Alfresco share language is automatically chosen according to the locale of your browser.
Moreover, in order to have the various translations, you'll have to download your language package from Alfresco forge…

hope this helps

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

bsaric — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:07:23 GMT

actually, it doesn't

I've have tried it in FF 3.5.5 and IE 8 by putting croatian hr_HR on top of the language list AND putting croatian hr_HR as the ONLY language in the list and STILL alfresco share is in english

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

mikeh — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:09:05 GMT

Yes, it does

However, altering the Alfresco Explorer configuration won't translate Share. You need to install a language pack for Share.

I only see a Hungarian language pack for Alfresco Explorer v1.4 on the Forge, so I doubt you've managed to install a Share one. It looks like you'll have to supply the translation yourself.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

bsaric — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:18:45 GMT

MikeH,

I am really grateful for your help but somehow it doesn't work for me.
You see, I already copied the .properties files for a CROATIAN language. I didn't just altered web-client-config-custom.xml file.

and I have put .properties files for the croatian language in C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\messages

Did You mean croatian when You wrote that there is a language pack for hungarian…or is it that Share is only translated in Hungarian? :roll:

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

mikeh — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:01:55 GMT

Whoops - sorry, I meant Croatian (don't know where I got Hungarian from!)

Anyway, same problem - Share is a different set of .properties files and the latest Croatian language pack on the Forge seems to be for Explorer v2.1, not Share.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

bsaric — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:11:57 GMT

this was REALLY helpful point earned 😎

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

bsaric — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:15:56 GMT

just a sub-question(s) :?

is it the same procedure with .properties files for Share? (just put it in C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\messages since I already altered web-client-config-custom.xml file)

where can i find English .properties files for Share so i can become part of the translating team

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

brauliotrujillo — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:18:59 GMT

Whoops - sorry, I meant Croatian (don't know where I got Hungarian from!)

Anyway, same problem - Share is a different set of .properties files and the latest Croatian language pack on the Forge seems to be for Explorer v2.1, not Share.

Thanks,
Mike

@Mike, when you say that Share has a different set of .properties files, what is the path to those files and can we use the same procedure used to apply the language pack for Explorer?

I have succesfully installed the spanish language pack for Alfresco Explorer but i have not been able to accomplish the same for Share, it keeps showing only English.

Thanks in advance!

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

brauliotrujillo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:09:41 GMT

I manage to find the .get.properties files for Alfresco Share, they are located at: tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco , in the components and modules folders. I highly recommend to BACKUP those files before you do any changes, i found that the hard way.

I am currently doing the Spanish translation for those files, when i´m done i´ll post them in the spanish language pack forge.

One tip for using special and accented characters, in the properties files you have to encode those characters using the prefix "\u00" and then the two character code, one quick example, let´s say that you are looking to translate "Day" to spanish which is "Día", the encoding for "í" is "ED" so you have to encode it as:


button.day=D\u00EDa
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Next is a reference for the codes: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

PS: kudos to the development team for making a kickass app like alfresco share!

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

cristina_aragon — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:36:54 GMT

Hi all!

I´m also trying to put my Alfresco Share in spanish but don´t work any of the solutions I've read in this forum.
I have put the language packages:

For Share, unpack to: <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/share/modules/editors/tiny_mce
For Explorer, unpack to: <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/alfresco/scripts/tiny_mce

But it doesn´t work.

I have put the *.properties files from the Alfresco forge repository into:

…/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/messages/
…/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/messages

but nothing.
I have delete the temp and work directorys from tomcat, the cache from my navigator and nothing.
What else can I try?

Thanks in advance!
Cristina

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

dennobo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:05 GMT

Hi!

I am also looking into how to change the language of /share.

I know that it is depending on the browser locale. But I don't want it to be.

We agreed to use english as the main language for our Alfresco, although most of us use a different locale for browsing.

So how and where do I restrict the language? I wasn't really able to find the right information.

Thanks!

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

pawel_rzeszowsk — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:01 GMT

Hi,
it is possible, I have done it the following way:
1. I have modiefied the file slingshot-login.ftl so the user can choose the language during the loggining:

               <select id="language" name="language" size="1" style="width:150px">
               <option value="en_US" selected="selected">English</option>
              <option value="de_DE">German</option>   
              <option value="es_ES">Spanish</option>
              <option value="fr_FR">French</option>
              <option value="it_IT">Italian</option>
              <option value="ja_JP">Japanese</option>
              <option value="pl_PL">Polish</option>
            </select>
            </div> ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

2. I have created the jar, and put it on the Share classpath with the following code:



      Locale locale = null;
      Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
      String acceptLang = null;
      // finding ALFRESCO_UI_PREFLANG
      if(cookies != null) {
         for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
            if (cookies[i].getName().equals("ALFRESCO_UI_PREFLANG")) {
               acceptLang = cookies[i].getValue();
               break;
            }
         }
      }
      // if cookie not found, use "Accept-Language"
      // set language locale from browser header
      if (acceptLang == null) {
         acceptLang = request.getHeader("Accept-Language");
      }
      
      if (acceptLang != null && acceptLang.length() != 0) {
         StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(acceptLang, ",; ");

         // get language and convert to java locale format
         String language = t.nextToken().replace('-', '_');

         // set locale onto Alfresco thread local
         locale = I18NUtil.parseLocale(language);
         I18NUtil.setLocale(locale);
      }

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3. I have created a Dashlet in the Share which enables a user to change language. The dashlet logic changes the language value stored in the cookie.

Best Regards,
Pawel Rzeszowski.

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

alfgreen — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:19:41 GMT

Hi Pawel,

Can you post the jar file or all class content?

Best Regards,
Javier Garcia

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

pawel_rzeszowsk — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:19:12 GMT

Hi,
the code for the class:

package your.pack.name

import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.LocaleResolver;
import org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.I18NUtil;


public class CustomLocaleResolver extends LocaleResolver {
   public Locale resolveLocale(HttpServletRequest request) {
      // System.out.println("Entering resolveLocale");

      Locale locale = null;
      Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
      String acceptLang = null;
      // finding ALFRESCO_UI_PREFLANG
      if(cookies != null) {
         for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
            if (cookies[i].getName().equals("ALFRESCO_UI_PREFLANG")) {
               acceptLang = cookies[i].getValue();
               break;
            }
         }
      }
      // if cookie not found, use "Accept-Language"
      // set language locale from browser header
      if (acceptLang == null) {
         acceptLang = request.getHeader("Accept-Language");
      }
      
      if (acceptLang != null && acceptLang.length() != 0) {
         StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(acceptLang, ",; ");

         // get language and convert to java locale format
         String language = t.nextToken().replace('-', '_');

         // set locale onto Alfresco thread local
         locale = I18NUtil.parseLocale(language);
         I18NUtil.setLocale(locale);
      }

      return locale;
   }
}
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Regards,
Pawel Rzeszowski.

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

alfgreen — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:06:37 GMT

How you call it to apply the locate?

Best regards

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

fred-xte — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:55:40 GMT

Hi to all,

is there any way to make Alfresco Share display in english independently from the to the browser locale ?

Best regards,

Re: how to change language of alfresco share

tarn2206 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:55:44 GMT

create file your-slingshot-application-context.xml and put in folder $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension

this is the content of xml file


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
    <bean id="localeResolver" class="YourLocaleResolver" />
</beans>
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