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Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

MattiasEkström — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:50:52 GMT

Hi!

Anyone know how to localize a custom widget?

I've downloded @RobertScheitlin__GISP s eSearch and copied it to my own webserver and registered it to my Portal. All works great, thanks Robert for a great widget with so much config possibilities.

Now I want to translate it into Swedish, I went into the nls-folder and since there already was localizations for french and dutch i just copied the fr-folder and renamed it to swedish and then went ahead to translate the strings.js in my sv-folder. I also changed "sv": 0, to "sv": 1 in this part in the main strings.js

"ro": 0, "ru": 0, "sv": 1, "th": 0, "tr": 0,

Still my swedish strings doesn't show up. The rest of the web app and widgets are in swedish so nothing wrong with my browser language settings. And i've re-registered the widget to my portal with no luck.

Am I missing something?

I don't have to let it be avalible in english so I guess I could change the main strings.js instead, but it would be better to do this "the right way".

Re: Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:02:25 GMT

Mattias,

You did exactly what you needed to do to get the localization to be Swedish. Maybe you are having a cache issue. I don't do Portal so all I can say is that it just did this in WAB Dev and it worked fine.

Re: Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

MattiasEkström — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:38:09 GMT

Back to work after the weekend and the eSearch widget is translated to Swedish! Must have been a cache issue then. Note to self: rember to clear cache when not seeing any updates. 😀

Re: Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

MattiasEkström — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:49:29 GMT

@RobertScheitlin__GISP some follow-up... Translating strings should not affect any functionality right?

But when using my swedish strings I can't open the general settings in the configuration, I get this error in the console

Uncaught Error: dijit._WidgetsInTemplateMixin: parser returned unfilled promise (probably waiting for module auto-load), unsupported by _WidgetsInTemplateMixin. Must pre-load all supporting widgets before instantiation.

Is the general settigs module in any way related to it's name in the strings.js?

When removing my swedish localization it works again.

I was also going to test the widget in WAB Developer version, but when I add the widget by clicking OK in the settings window I get this error message

TypeError: widgetJson.manifest[("i18nLabels_featureAction_" + action.name)] is undefined

And the widget is not added to the application. Do you have any idea what it could be due to? This happens whether I have my localization or not. The manifest.json looks like this:

{ "name": "eSearch", "label": "Enhanced Search", "platform": "HTML", "version": "2.13", "wabVersion": "2.16", "author": "Robert Scheitlin & Esri R&D Center Beijing", "description": "This enhanced search widget offers the ability to search by a string, geometry and spatial relationship.", "copyright": "2019", "license": "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0", "properties": { "hasVersionManager": true }, "featureActions": [ { "name": "eShowStatistics", "uri": "featureActions/eShowStatistics" }, { "name": "eZoomTo", "uri": "featureActions/eZoomTo" } ] }

Re: Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:27:21 GMT

I have seen this happen when syntax errors are made in the the Strings.js file. A single quote needs to escaped with a backslash before it. You can see this in the French locale file.

Re: Localize a custom widget (eSearch) added to portal

MattiasEkström — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:57:09 GMT

Tried to escape the single quotes but it didn't work, but removing all singel quotes worked. And that works for me. Thanks!