Newbie Questions

Re: Bilingual form

Tom Bollah — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:02:25 GMT

Hallo Karsten and Jimmy

Thanks for your answers.

At this moment I have a lot of work but as soon I have a moment, I try your solutions

Tom

Re: Bilingual form

Jimmy — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:22:26 GMT

Matt Faus has a blog post on how to accomplish this using one view, and I suggest going that route as trying to maintain two views that are the same except for the language can get a bit hairy.
http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/matt/archive/2006/02/02/Add-Language-Localization-to-a-Form.aspx

As far as I know, there isn't a codeless way to get the local language, and I think Karsten's approach would be the way to go about that, if you're willing to use code.

Re: Bilingual form

Karsten Brocksieper — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:49:22 GMT

Hello Tom,

in my personal opinion I would use views which are in different languages. Then you can detect the language in the "FormEvent_Loading" event. To detect the language you can use the 'CultureInfo' class which is in the System.Globalization namespace.

So you have to add in your using block:

using System.Globalization;

... and in the "FormEvents_Loading" you can detect the language in the following way:

CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture ;

XPathNavigator nav = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();
nav.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:field1", NamespaceManager).SetValue(ci.Name);

Depending on the system (english, french) the result in 'field1' is "en-en" or "fr-fr" (culture info). Then you can switch the views depending on the value.

Hope that helps,

Bilingual form

Tom Bollah — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:47:30 GMT

Hello the forum,

Recipients of an InfoPath form based on the template "Mail Item" are either French or English speaking..
Is it possible to design a form so that recipients receive it in their own language (and how can Infopath detect the language) or do I have to create two separate forms?
In advance thank you for your answers
Tom