Add Locale Options to Login Page of Aras Innovator

Aras Innovator supports multilingual user interface and will automatically determine locale preference by browser's language configuration.
But it is not convenient if user want to change locale quickly due to user may not know or do not want to change browser's settings.
Allow users determine the locale with login data by themselves should be an alternative way to solve the problem. Follow below steps to implement.

Add Inline Code

1. Open "\Innovator\Client\scripts\login.aspx".
2. Move to line 131 and add below code with embedded code block.

Dim objLocales As XmlNodeList = ApplicationXML.SelectNodes("/Innovator/Locale-Option[@id and @text]")

If objLocales.Count>0 Then
 Dim objLocale As XmlElement
 
 Dim strDefault As String = Request.ServerVariables.Item("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE").SubString(0,5)
 Dim strID As String
 Dim strText As String
 
 Response.Write("<div class=""database"">")
 Response.Write("<select required id=""locale_select"" name=""locale"" onchange=""parent.aras.setCommonPropertyValue('systemInfo_CurrentLocale',this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);"">")
 
 For Each objLocale In objLocales
  strID = objLocale.GetAttribute("id")
  strText = objLocale.GetAttribute("text")
  
  Response.Write("<option value=""" & strID & """" & If(strID=strDefault," selected","") & ">" & strText & "</option>")
 Next
 
 Response.Write("</select>")
 Response.Write("<span></span>")
 Response.Write("</div>")
End If

Define Locale Options

1. Open "InnovatorServerConfig.xml".
2. Append new tag with below format.

<Locale-Option id="en-US" text="English" />

• id - the option value with language tag (see Language Localisation).
• text - the option text to show in select box.

Result

An additional select box for locale should be displayed in login page. In contrast, select box will hide if there is no any locale option.
And now, users are able to login with specified locale without changing browser's settings.

※Please note, language packs still need to be imported manually, this article only introduces an alternative solution for choosing locale at login page.