Default language

Q&A
1

Hi,

Can you set the default language of Portal on the server level?

I couldn’t find any property handling this case nor any info in documentation nor a question on this forum.

2

Hi,
language to be used in the Portal is user’s choice and it is stored in a browser cookie (named BOS_Locale) for next login.
If you want to set a default language for your users, you can add “locale=xx” to your URL as explained here .

3

Hello.

Since the design choice is to let this setting at the browser level (and not, for instance, in the user profile), then it would be a good behaviour to USE the browser’s language settings instead of a specific cookie. This should be available in the Accept-Language request header.

4

Hi,
The method described in the documentation page you have given assumes that user is opening specific task. I would like to give users an URL to Bonita Portal homepage with locale setting, but cannot figure out how to build url. Simply entering
http://localhost:8081/bonita/portal/homepage?locale=pl
 doesn’t work. Is there a way to do it?

5

Hi,
you can give them this url:

http://localhost:8080/bonita/login.jsp?_l=pl

6

http://localhost:8080/bonita/login.jsp?_l=pl works for the login form… BUT NOT WHEN GOINGTO THE PORTAL…

http://localhost:8081/bonita/portal/homepage?locale=pl DOES NOT WORK.

ALL users or the organization, one by one, MUST choose their language setting, FOR EACH browser installation they will use (each computer, each browser ! And each time they will lose the cookie or reinstall a browser or change the computer, they will have to do it again.

IMO the choice of setting a cookie PLUS no way to change the default language is the WORST design choice one could do, besides no localisation at all of course.

7

do you know if there is any improvement for the default language ?

I agree it should:

  • use browser default settings + cookie if changed
    OR
  • use serveur default settings + cookie if changed.

our organisation is only french speaking, we could not tell each user to change settings by himself.

8

We have logged internally an improvement request to choose language based on:

  • URL parameter value
  • Bonita Cookie content
  • Tenant admin configuration
  • Brower’s locale
  • Default fall back to English