I had some issues making the ADX Studio Customer Portal multilingual.
First I tried having a duplicate website with duplicatie site markers and all… this was way too much.
I solved it just a little easier… use as much translations from CRM as possible… since there are a whole load of translations available when you install a language pack.
In this article I use Dutch and English.
First let me show you the markup for a page with a grid view displaying CRM data.
asp:GridView
ID=”GridView1″ runat=”server” CssClass=”cases” AutoGenerateColumns=”False”
>
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Study”>
<HeaderTemplate >
<asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader1″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_study”) %>‘></asp:Literal>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:HyperLink
ID=”hlUrl” runat=”server” NavigateUrl=’<%# EducationUrl( (Guid)Eval(“cbr_educationid”) ) %>‘
Text=’<%# Eval(“cbr_study”)%>‘
/>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Institution”>
<HeaderTemplate >
<asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader2″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_institutionid”) %>‘></asp:Literal>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<%#
ContentUtility.FormatCrmEntityReference(Eval(“cbr_institutionid”) as
CrmEntityReference) %>
<%# Eval(“cbr_institute_not_listed”)%>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Start Date”>
<HeaderTemplate >
<asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader3″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_startdate”) %>‘></asp:Literal>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<%# GetLocalDate(Eval(“cbr_startdate”) as
DateTime?) %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”End Date”>
<HeaderTemplate >
<asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader4″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_graduationdate”) %>‘></asp:Literal>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<%# GetLocalDate(Eval(“cbr_graduationdate”) as
DateTime?)%>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
In the code behind of this page, you´ll need the method GetHeaderText… taking the CRM field name as only argument..
In the Session-object I stored MyLanguageCode… holding the 1033 or 1043… whatever the user picked as display language.
protected
string GetHeaderText(string crmField)
{
return
ContentUtility.GetLocalizedLabel(XrmContext, crmField, “cbr_education”, (int)Session[“MyLanguageCode”]);
}
I add in the ContentUtility class a two methods … GetLocalizedLabel and GetLocalizedPickListValues
public
static
string GetLocalizedLabel(XrmServiceContext context, string crmField, string crmEntity, int LanguageCode)
{
RetrieveAttributeRequest CrmAttributeRequest = new
RetrieveAttributeRequest();
CrmAttributeRequest.EntityLogicalName = crmEntity;
CrmAttributeRequest.LogicalName = crmField;
RetrieveAttributeResponse response = (RetrieveAttributeResponse)context.Execute(CrmAttributeRequest);
if (response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).Any() == true)
{
return response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).SingleOrDefault().Label;
}
// Otherwise return the default label
return response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Single().Label;
}
public
static
ListItemCollection GetLocalizedPickListValue(XrmServiceContext context, string crmField, string crmEntity, int LanguageCode)
{
RetrieveAttributeRequest CrmAttributeRequest = new
RetrieveAttributeRequest();
CrmAttributeRequest.EntityLogicalName = crmEntity;
CrmAttributeRequest.LogicalName = crmField;
RetrieveAttributeResponse response = (RetrieveAttributeResponse)context.Execute(CrmAttributeRequest);
PicklistAttributeMetadata picklist = (PicklistAttributeMetadata)response.AttributeMetadata;
ListItemCollection ddItems = new
ListItemCollection();
string _localizedlabel = string.Empty;
foreach (OptionMetadata option in picklist.OptionSet.Options)
{
if (option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).Any() == true)
{
_localizedlabel = option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).SingleOrDefault().Label;
}
else
{
_localizedlabel = option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Single().Label;
}
ddItems.Add(new
ListItem(_localizedlabel, option.Value.ToString()));
}
return ddItems;
}
Ivo Bouwman 