Add language picker in Employee Center Header Menu

[Vegard S]

According to this article, all you have to do is add the sys_id of the portal record to the glide.sp.portals.language_selector_enabled property. 

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/yokohama-platform-user-interface/page/build/service-portal/ta...

However it doesn't seem to be enough. Some other articles mention you have to include the language picker widget to the header widget, but that requires cloning the widget. This is not included in the article above. 

Which is a terrible practice for such a fundamental core widget. 

Does anyone have any more insights to this?

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Vegard S 

there is no OOB configuration for this, you will have to customize it

You will have to clone this widget "Employee Center Navigation" and then make changes to the newly created one

This link has approach for the same

Language picker on the Megamenu bar in Employee center Pro 

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.

[Dr Atul G- LNG]

Hi @Vegard S 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/employee-center-forum/language-picker-on-the-megamenu-bar-in-em....

[Dr Atul G- LNG]

Hi @Vegard S 

Did you check the link.

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Vegard S 

there is no OOB configuration for this, you will have to customize it

You will have to clone this widget "Employee Center Navigation" and then make changes to the newly created one

This link has approach for the same

Language picker on the Megamenu bar in Employee center Pro 

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.

[Vegard S · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ankur 🙂

So in other words it's not supported, even though it says so in the documentation..
Cloning a critical widget like this just to get a language picker is not acceptable. 

I'll create an Idea for it.

For now, the better approach is to create a custom widget and embed both the OOTB header widget as well as the language picker widget into it. To avoid cloning any widgets.