Optaining user language in a catalog script with g_user?

[jesusemelendezm]

Hi, I need to display a msg if user language is "English". I am working with Var loginLanguage = g_user.getClientData("loginlanguage"); but the language value is undefined? my current language is English. Any help is appreciated.

[jamesmcwhinney]

Thanks Jim!

Which table would I apply the business rule to?

I have tried catalog client scripts, catalog items, and requested items but none of them seem to be working for me.

Cheers,

- James

[Jim Coyne]

What is your use case for getting the language?   Looks like it is in the Service Catalog?

[jamesmcwhinney]

Yep, I have a service catalog item that has a field I would like to validate in real time.

When the onchange verifies the data, an alert message appears to say something like "Please only enter numbers".

I need this alert message to be English or French depending on the current user's language.

[jamesmcwhinney]

Its ugly and slow but I have a workaround for now:

in the client script:

LangAlert("hello world","Bonjour Tout Le Monde");

function LangAlert(EnText,FrText){

  var UserSysID = g_user.userID;

  var ga = new GlideAjax('smseAJAXOtherExpense');

  ga.addParam('sysparm_name','getUserLocalizedAlert');

  ga.addParam('sysparm_usersysid',UserSysID);

  ga.addParam('sysparm_entext',EnText);

  ga.addParam('sysparm_frtext',FrText);

  ga.getXML(AjaxAlert);

}

function AjaxAlert(response){

  var alertMessage = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");

  alert(alertMessage);

}

In a script include:

,

getUserLocalizedAlert: function() {

  var UserSysID = this.getParameter('sysparm_usersysid');

  var EnText = this.getParameter('sysparm_entext');

  var FrText = this.getParameter('sysparm_frtext');

  var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');

  if(gr.get(UserSysID)){

    if(gr.preferred_language == 'en'){

      return EnText;

    } else {

      return FrText;

    }

  }

}

[Jim Coyne]

You should then be able to use "alert(getMessage("u_catalog_please_enter_a_number"));" and have two Messages entries, one for English and one for French.   And to help performance, add the "Messages" field to the Catalog Client Scripts form and add "u_catalog_please_enter_a_number" to that field.   That will pre-load the messages instead of having to make a trip to the server to get the appropriate one.