How to change the Languages And Locales In The OBIEE Login Screen

Hi,

I found this in Oracle support, It is interesting so thought to share with you. If you have oracle support account then you can access this directly from oracle support (Doc ID 1267934.1)

Goal

How to modify the list of available languages and locales in the Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) login screen, for versions 10g (10.1.3.x.x) and 11g (currently 11.1.1.3.0).

Solution

In OBIEE 10g it is possible to change the list of available languages and locales in the log in screen. This is done by editing instanceconfig.xml file under the directory

<OracleBIData>/web/config

and adding/removing the languages from the corresponding tags.

For example, to display only Germand and English languages, you can set it as follow:

<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>
<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>

Then, you need to restart Presentation Server.

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In OBIEE 11g the settings have changed. In the instanceconfig file now you need to modify within the <Localization> tag.

The instanceconfig.xml file is located under
<BI_HOME>/instances/instance3/config/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent/coreapplication_obips1

for example
C:\OBIEE_11g\instances\instance3\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1

This is how you need to modify the instanceconfig.xml file:

<Localization>
<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>
<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>

</Authentication>
<Localization>
<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>
<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>
</Localization>

</ServerInstance>
</WebConfig>
</Localization>







Thanks,

Nagarjuna