Building Multi-locale sites with Web Content Management

Hi Friends,

As you might be knowing, in my previous post I was talking about that we had a requirement of builiding multilingual portal application with IBM Workplace Web Content Managment, I came across a very nice article which helped us lot in converting our portal site to support for English (default) and Spanish.

Just wanted to share this with all who are going forward to build multilingual site with IBM Workplace Web Content Management. This link has a nice document which describes the best practice for applications supporting more than one language.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/webcontentmanagement/d-ls-multilocalesites/

Tag to change locale from links on IBM WPS 6.0 Theme

Recently we had a requirement to enable portlet application to support multilingual. Initially we were supporting English language (en_US) but the new requirement was to have Spanish (es) support.

The requirement was when user visits the portlet application he should be able to toggle between English and Spanish. At a time only one of the links needs to displayed. The best place to put this link was on Theme level in banner.jspf.

I just wanted to share with you all the useful tag to switch the portal locale at a global level.
 
<portal-navigation:url command="ChangeLanguage">
 
This tag is used to change the active language in the navigational state in which the URL is generated.
The following code example uses this tag to change the language to Spanish:
 
<a href='<portal-navigation:url command="ChangeLanguage"><portal-navigation:urlParam name="locale" value="es"/></portal-navigation:url>'>En Espanol</a>