Localization Support in Bold BI Application

Localization is adapting a website into different linguistic and cultural contexts - involving much more than the simple text translation.

By default, the Bold BI application is available in English(en-US) localization.

Refer to the following documentation to add a new localization and edit the existing localization:

NOTE: To apply localization files in Bold BI version 4.2.69 or earlier refer to this.

Add a new localization

1. Create a folder called locale inside the app_data in the deployed location.

2. Create a folder inside the locale folder and mention the folder name in the locale language code in which you want to generate the localization file.

   Please refer to this link for a sample language code. Here, create a folder called fr-FR, which represents the French language code.

   

3. Create application folders with the following names inside the language code folder for each service:

   • bi
   • bi-dataservice
   • ums

   

4. To add messages.pot in above created application folder refer to this.

5. To create locale file messages.po from messages.pot either using manual edit option or online tool for the BI and UMS services refer to this.

6. To create locale file messages.po from default.po either using manual edit option or online tool for the Designer service refer to this.

NOTE:
By default, the Bold BI is deployed in C:\BoldServices location for Windows and /var/www/bold-services/application location for Linux.

How to add the default locale file in the application folder

1. BI Service

   • Copy the messages.pot file present in the folder bi\web\locale\ and paste the file inside app_data\locale\[language-folder]\bi\ folder.

   

2. UMS Service

   • Copy the messages.pot file present in the folder idp\web\locale\ and paste the file inside app_data\locale\[language-folder]\ums\ folder.

   

3. Designer Services

   • Copy the default.po file present in the folder bi\dataservice\locale and paste the file inside app_data\locale\[language-folder]\bi-dataservice\ folder.

   

   • Copy the locale.js file present in the folder bi\dataservice\locale\en-us and paste the file inside app_data\locale\[language-folder]\bi-dataservice\ folder.

   

How to generate the localization file for another language

You can generate the localization file for the application in two ways as follows:

1. Manual edit
2. Auto-generate using online tools

NOTE:
• After generating the messages.po file for bi-dataservice you need to run the locale utility. Refer to this link to generate the locale js file.
• Restart the site to apply the generated language for the application.

Manual edit

1. BI or UMS

   • Rename the above pasted messages.pot file into messages.po. Here, the localization file has been generated for the BI service.

   

   BI-DATASERVICE

   • Rename the above pasted default.po file to messages.po.

   

   There are two variables in this file : msgid and msgstr.

   msgid - It contains the product content in the default language.

   msgstr - It is empty and represents the translated language.

2. Convert the content in the msgid into the equivalent language of the desired localization support. Replace this converted content into the empty string in msgtr.

3. Change the locale Language code in the top of the messages.po file. Here, the sample converted locale file will appear as follows:

   

Auto-generate using any tools

1. BI or UMS

   • Rename the above pasted messages.pot file to messages.po.

   BI-DATASERVICE

   • Rename the above pasted default.po file to messages.po.

2. Use this online site https://www.matecat.com/ for generating the localization file.

3. Here, browse to select the messages.po file in the application folder.

   

4. Change the language in the To option, to the language that you want to generate the localization file.

   

5. Select the Analyze option and then click Translate.

   

   

6. Now, there is a download icon at the top of the page. Use it to download the file.

   

7. Change the downloaded file name to messages.po and paste it into the respective application folder inside the app_data\locale\[language-folder]\.

How to generate the locale JS file for bi-DataService

1. Download the locale Utility from this link provided. Once the download is completed, extract the .Zip file.

2. Open the appsettings.json file in an editor and modify the boldbi_custom_locale_path as the deployed path of the designer locale files.

   

3. Then, run the BoldBI.Locale.Utility.exe file.

   

4. Once, you have run the utility, a locale.js file will be generated in the newly created localized folder path of the designer locale app_data\locale\[language-folder]\bi-dataservice\.

   

Where to change the localization in the application

Global language settings

After generating the localization file using the preceding steps, you can set the global language in the UMS application.

This language is applied to UMS, BI, and Designer Service when there is no language is selected in site settings or user preference settings and the Application language should be set to Inherit from global settings in site settings.

Site language settings

Change the localization on the site settings page. By default, the site language is selected with the English language. If you want to change language, you can change to the desired language after generating the localization file for the BI and BI-DATASERVICE services using the above steps.

Admins can enforce a language to all the users on the site. If the admin enforced a language, then the user preference settings is disabled.

User preference settings

By clicking the Update application language details through your account link on the profile page, the user will be redirected to UMS profile page where they can set their own language preference.

A user can set any language as the preferred language and it will be applied on all the sites, but when the admin disables the user language preference on any site, then the user’s preferred language will not be applied on that site.