KB484537: Add Norwegian locale with a specific data number format to Library Web

Product Owner, Senior • MicroStrategy

This article explains to add the Norwegian locale to Library Web.

Starting with the release of Strategy ONE (March 2024), dossiers are also known as dashboards.

Description

In Strategy 2020, Library Web does not support Norwegian and therefore, it does not have the desired date and number format for Norwegian. The expected format should be:

Date: dd.mm.yyyy
Number: blank space for thousands separator and comma (,) for decimal

Solution

To solve this problem, in Strategy 2021, we made some enhancements which allows you to add the plugin and the string translation files to the appropriate folders inside the Library Web deployment to add Norwegian locale in Library Web.
The plugin contains the following files:

```
Strategy.xml
```
```
locales.xml
```
```
fomat_config.xml
```

The following string translation files need to be prepared:

```
MessagesBundle_nb.properties
```
```
nb_NO.js
```

The

Strategy.xml

file in the plugin is used to specify Library Web settings. The following are sample scripts for Norwegian:


 <parameter name="localesFile" value="/plugins/AddingNorwegianLanguage/WEB-INF/xml/locales.xml" />


<parameter name="serverFormatterFile" value="/plugins/AddingNorwegianLanguage/WEB-INF/xml/format_config.xml" />

Note: The

Strategy.xml

file registers the files in the plugin so that the Library Server loads the files in the given location. "

AddingNorwegianLanguage

" in the script is the plugin name.
In the

locales.xml

file, each

<locale />

tag represents the supported locale in Library Web. The following is a sample script for Norwegian:


<locale locale-id="1044" language="nb" country="NO" desc="Norwegian (DNB)" desc-id="" char-set="UTF-8" char-set-excel="UnicodeLittle" codepage="65001" codepage-excel="1252" />

The

format_config.xml

file in the plugin is used to define the date number format. The following is a sample script for Norwegian:


<locale language="nb" country="NO">
		<list-separator>;</list-separator>
		<data-type name="integer">
			<out>###0</out>
			<in># ##0</in>
			<in>### ### ##0</in>
                        <!-- display node for this data type currently not in use -->
			<display>###0</display>
		</data-type>
		<data-type name="number">
			<out>###0,##########</out>
			<in># ##0,###</in>
                        <!-- display node for this data type currently not in use -->
			<display>###0,##########</display>
		</data-type>
		<data-type name="date">
			<out>dd.MM.yyyy</out>
			<in>d.M.yy</in>
			<in>d.M.yyyy</in>
			<in>yyyy-M-d</in>
			<display>dd.MM.yy</display>
		</data-type>
		<data-type name="time">
			<out>HH:mm:ss</out>
			<in>H:m</in>
			<in>H:m:s</in>
			<in>H:m:s z</in>
                        <display>HH:mm:ss</display>
		</data-type>
	</locale>

The

MessagesBundle_nb.properties

and

nb_NO.js

files are used for the text string translations. Each language has its own

MessagesBundles

and

.js

files identified by a unique suffix.
The English

messagesbundle

file is located in the

<LibraryWeb_Deployment>/WEB-INF/classes/resource

folder. You need to translate it to Norwegian and save it as

MessagesBundle_nb.properties

The English

.js

file is loacted in the

<LibraryWeb_Deployment>/DossierReact/dist/messages

folder. This also needs to be translated to Norwegian and saves as

nb_NO.js

To add the Norwegian locale to Library Web, perform the following steps:

Stop the Library Web Server.
Navigate to the Library Web plugins folder (
```
<LibraryWeb_deployment>\plugins
```
) and add the plugin folder, '
```
AddingNorwegianLanguage
```
,' with the three files:

```
Strategy.xml
```
```
locales.xml
```
```
format_config.xml
```

Add

MessagesBundle_tr.properties

to the

<LibraryWeb_Deployment>WEB-INF/classes/resources

folder.

Add

nb_NO.js

to the

<LibraryWeb_Deployment>DossierReact>

dist>messages

folder.

Start the Library Web Server.
Change the browser language to Norwegian.
Launch Library Web to view the changes.
The date displays as dd.MM.yyyy, and a blank space for thousands separator and comma for decimal. The interface string is also changed based on your prepared string files.

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Published:

August 28, 2020

Last Updated:

March 21, 2024