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Usage Note 33856: How SAS® Information Delivery Portal pages and portlets are localized in a multilingual environment
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In a multilingual environment, the SAS Information Delivery Portal might appear to ignore the current locale of the user. Although most text in the portal is localized, the names and descriptions of pages and portlets are not localized at run time. Instead, the names and descriptions of pages and portlets are stored in metadata when they are created. Since portlets and pages are created at different times, it is possible for different locales to be in use when these items are created. This can result in multiple locales being used to display content in the portal. The following table explains when portal pages and portlets are created and which locale setting is used to name the items.
| Portal content | Description | Time content is created | Locale used |
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| Portal sample metadata | The portal sample metadata creates a page template called Home, which includes a collection portlet and a bookmarks portlet. The name of the page, and the name of the collections portlet will be assigned when the sample metadata is loaded. The bookmarks portlet name is defined at a different time, since it is a predefined portlet. | During the initial configuration | Locale used by the Software Deployment Wizard. |
| Predefined portlets for users | These include the following portlets.
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The first time the user logs into the portal, an instance of the predefined portlets are automatically created for them. | The browser locale when the user first logs into the portal. |
| Predefined portlets for groups. | This only includes the Welcome Portlet. | The first time the Web application server is started using a given locale. | The locale used to start the Web application server. If the web application server is started with one locale, and then started again with a different locale, this will result in two instances of the Welcome Portlet. |
| Portlet templates | This includes all portlets that users can create a new instance of such as the collections portlet or the URL display portlet. | Instances of portlet templates are created interactively. | Locale does not apply because the values that the user enters for name and description will be stored in metadata for the portlet instance that is created. However, the portlet name that is displayed in the drop-down list when creating a new portlet will be localized based on the browser locale. |
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Information Delivery Portal | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||||