Liferay 6.2 languages switching

[Yannis Konstas, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

In my portal all authenticated users have as default language English. In pages' theme there is a language selector using $taglibLiferay.language("fm", null, "languageId", 3) which gets all languages that I have selected inside portal-ext.properties(locales=en_GB,fr_FR,de_DE). All these languages are displayed normally in selector, but when a logged-in user tries to switch a language in selector, the selected option remains always the user's language. e.g. A user with English language cannot switch to French. Although, the language changes in selector, the page is reloaded in English with selector's option turned to English.

Does anyone has a workaround on this?

Note: The mappings in web.xml are correct.

[Andew Jardine, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Hey Yannis,

I was messing around with languages a few weeks back and noticed that the language for a logged in user is always pulled from their "User account". When you toggle the language using that drop down (and you are logged in) does the preferred language for the users profile change?

[Yannis Konstas, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Hey Andew,
No the preferred language for the users does not change when I change the selector's value, instead when I tried to change language from user's account, the selector's value has changed automatically.
A guy on the net suggested me to try this $taglibLiferay.language("fm", null, "_82_languageId", 3) instead of $taglibLiferay.language("fm", null, "languageId", 3) and now the languages switching is functional i.e. when selector's language changes, the active language of the portal changes also, independently of user's preferred language.

[Andew Jardine, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Interesting -- with the old approach that you were using, did it work when you were the "default" user? (ie. not signed in)

[Yannis Konstas, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

No, it didn't, I had also to change user's preferred language.