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]

if(CostValue == 'BADVALUE'){

          alert(getMessage("u_catalog_please_enter_a_number"));

}

Sadly it looks like getMessage() wont work on the client side

Cheers,

- James

[Jim Coyne]

Weird, it actually works the second time around:

So if you want it to run 100% of the time and be performance friendly, you could create a new String variable for the item (or Variable Set if need on more items) with a default value of "javascript:gs.getUser().getLanguage();".   Create a UI Policy to hide it so it is not visible to the user.   Then you have the user's language:

[jamesmcwhinney]

Thanks, that is a far better solution that what I was doing with AJAX.

I will go with that.

Thanks!

- James

[Jim Coyne]

It's not ideal using a variable just for that, but sometimes we just have to use what we can  

[jamesmcwhinney]

Yep,.. the amount of workarounds I have had to set up for this implementation so far is just mindblowing. Hopefully Geneva will be better.