Localizing Crystal Reports toolbar/export/print dialogs

Hi,

Looking at the feature in XI it is clear that Crystal Reports XI now supports localization of the viewer (toolbar/export popup/print popup)

http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/product_guides/boexi/en/crxi_WhatsNew_en.pdf

I am using VS.NET 2005, CR XI, .NET 2.0

I have been unable to get CR to localize the toolbar/export popup/print popup. I have tried explicitely setting the page Culture and UI culture to "fr-CA" in Page_Init.

I have also tried setting the thread:
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA");
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA");

Checking the System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture property varifies that the culture was changed.

Although the culture settings are set to french it the labels are all still localized to EN.

Do I need to do something else for the items to be localized

Thanks for your help
~cang

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Localizing Crystal Reports toolbar/export/print dialogs

Eissing
Hi Ashley,

Thanks for your reply.

I have followed the procedures outlined in that document.

I generated the resource files using.
resgen /compile CRWebFormViewer.txt,CrystalDecisions.Web.resources
...

Then I generated the dlls using:
al.exe /t:lib /embed:CrystalDecisions.Web.resources /culture:en /out:CrystalDecisions.Web.custom_resources.dll
...

notice that I put the /culture:en I want it to overload the en resources.

I then copied the 3 generated dlls to the bin directory of our web application.
I did not put a globalResourcePath in the web.config so that it would use the local one in the web bin directory.

Then I ran the app however the resources shown did not change to the new ones I used.

My eventual goal is to be able to create a project in VS.NET 2005 that contains a CrystalDecisions.Web.Resource project which has a resources.resx file inside of it that has all the strings for Crystal. This will allow for a standardized way for creating resources for our web application.

Do you have any ideas why the resources are not getting overloaded
Have you ever created a project in VS.NET 2005 within the web application solution that will allow for easy change of resources

Thanks
~cang
Glenn Vassallo
Found a solution that works. First extract the english texts, translate and compile.
I have explained it here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=948785&SiteID=1&mode=1
AnandRaj
How can I create one in Norwegian. Is there an english resource file I can translate and then compile Is that the way to do it
Saint Kabir

Hi Cang Sam,

On the homepage of our .NET Developer Zone we've posted a Tutorial: "Configuring Multilingual Client Support"
that should help you through this.

You can also download the associated Language Resource Files here.

I hope that helps!

Ashley Lessard (Business Objects)

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Program Manager
Ian Shepherd
The resource dll generated must be in bin\en-US\*.dll

if they are not put under the localization subdirectory it doesn't get recognized by the system.

~cang
Decoder
I too am looking for the EN resource files. They are not in the zip file you link to above even though the documentation tells me to find them in that file.

I am creating reports for 16 Languages and would like to start with the English files.

Can you give us a link to the English

Thanks
Localizing Crystal Reports toolbar/export/print dialogs

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