29.5 UI Language

For more information about UI language settings in Filr, see Language Settings in the OpenText Filr 23.4: Maintenance Best Practices Guide.

Path: Port 9443 Appliance Console Configuration icon > Default Locale

Table 29-5 Using the Default Locale dialog

Field, Option, or Button	Information and/or Action
Default Locale:	Use this option to reset the language that you selected during the Filr configuration process. The following points explain more about the Default Locale setting. Filr appliance installations run in English only. When you install the Filr software, you can set the primary language, thereby establishing the UI language for text in locations where all Filr users see it. Your choices are: Chinese-Simplified Chinese Traditional Czech Danish Dutch English French German Hungarian Italian Japanese Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish The language that you select or change here also establishes the default interface language and locale for new user profiles that are imported through LDAP. The default language for non-LDAP and self-provisioned users is set in the Default User Settings dialog.

Field, Option, or Button

Information and/or Action

Use this option to reset the language that you selected during the Filr configuration process.

The following points explain more about the Default Locale setting.
- Filr appliance installations run in English only.
- When you install the Filr software, you can set the primary language, thereby establishing the UI language for text in locations where all Filr users see it.
  
  Your choices are:
  - Chinese-Simplified
  - Chinese Traditional
  - Czech
  - Danish
  - Dutch
  - English
  - French
  - German
  - Hungarian
  - Italian
  - Japanese
  - Polish
  - Portuguese
  - Russian
  - Spanish
  - Swedish
- The language that you select or change here also establishes the default interface language and locale for new user profiles that are imported through LDAP.
  
  The default language for non-LDAP and self-provisioned users is set in the Default User Settings dialog.

You can add the languages to the list of languages by performing the following steps:

Add the language and the country code to ssf-ext.properties file at /opt/novell/filr/apache-tomcat/webapps/ssf/WEB-INF/classes/config/ssf-ext.properties i18n.locale.customized.support=<language code>

For example, i18n.locale.customized.support= cy_GB here, cy is the language code for Welsh language and GB is country code for United Kingdom.
Create and add a .json file to the following locations. The file name convention for the .json file is <language code>-<country code> .
- (optional) opt/novell/filr/apache-tomcat/webapps/filr/assets/i18n
- (mandatory) /vastorage/filr/customLocales/ or vashare/filr/customLocales/
Restart the Filr server.