Set locales enabled

[Arundech Limudomsuk, geändert vor 9 Jahren.]

Dear all
I use Liferay Portal Community Edition 6.2.0 CE GA1 (Newton / Build 6200 / November 1, 2013) with TOMCAT, and I try to set locale_enabled to show in 3 languages in portal-ext.properties. But after clear cache of TOMCAT and restart, it still show all default language in liferay.
Any suggestion? Please help.

Thanks.

[Arundech Limudomsuk, geändert vor 9 Jahren.]

Do someone have any suggestions?

[Olaf Kock, geändert vor 9 Jahren.]

If the three languages you set are from the standard set of languages that Liferay brings, this typically works. There's one caveat: If you've ever set this configuration through the UI (in ControlPanel -> Portal Settings -> Display Settings), they will be stored in the database and override what you configure in portal-ext.properties. Thus, you might want to check what you find in Control Panel and might need to configure there instead of portal-ext.properties.

[Samuel Kong, geändert vor 9 Jahren.]

You should make the change in the Control Panel.

1. Navigate to: Control Panel > Portal Settings > Display Settings
2. Move the languages you want into the "Current" field.

[Petr Bodnár, geändert vor 6 Jahren.]

The actual answer to the question given is: the property is not named "locale_enabled", but "locales.enabled" - from /portal-impl.jar/portal.properties:

#
# Specify the locales that are enabled by default.
#
locales.enabled=ca_ES,zh_CN,en_US,fi_FI,fr_FR,de_DE,iw_IL,hu_HU,ja_JP,pt_BR,es_ES

Secondly, this is a new property since 6.2 - it was sufficient just to set "locales" in the previous versions. From /portal-impl.jar/portal.properties:

#
# Specify the available locales. [ ... shortened ... ]
#
locales=ar_SA,eu_ES,bg_BG,ca_AD,ca_ES, [ ... shortened ... ]

So as you can see, it is unfortunately quite under-documented - you won't find more explanation on the https://dev.liferay.com/discover/portal/-/knowledge_base/6-2/localization page either.

Finally, this can't be changed via the Control Panel (GUI) as some of the comments above suggest. You can only select from these globally available languages, you cannot modify them from GUI! Tested on LR 6.2.5 GA 6.

PS: A question regarding the above properties was given at https://web.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/86804982 as well.