Language Setting

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Function Description

A company's production and operation activities are not confined to a single country, but are oriented towards the global economic stage. Achieving linguistic diversity is an important factor in internationalization. FineReport has an international user base. To facilitate report creation for different users, FineReport supports language switchover and provides installation packages in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese versions.

1. You can download and install the designer of the English/Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese version.

2. To switch languages in FineReport, first you need to adjust the designer language, and adjust the browser language when previewing a finished report in the browser. Additionally, when a report is mounted to the platform, you need to adjust the language of the platform directory.

When you preview a report, you must ensure that the languages of the designer, the computer operating system, and the browser are consistent. Otherwise, you may encounter problems during preview. For example, if both the designer language and the system language are English, but the browser language is Chinese, part of the report will be displayed in Chinese during web-side preview. The following content introduces how to switch the languages of the designer, the browser, and the decision-making system.

Designer Language

After you install the designer of the English version, the page will be displayed in English by default, but you can adjust the language as needed. Choose File > Option on the designer menu bar. On the Common tab page, you can modify the language in the Language area. The setting will take effect after designer restart. 

If you install the designer of the Chinese version in an English operating system, all the characters may be displayed as squares. You can switch the designer language to solve this problem. If the messy code still appears after you switch the designer language, you can simply install the designer of the English version.

If you are an English user, you can directly install and use the designer of the English version. For details, see Designer Installation.

Browser Language

After you switch the designer language, you also need to check the browser language when previewing a generated report in the browser. Therefore, if you want to preview the report in another language, you need to switch the browser language. The following takes Google Chrome as an example to explain how to switch the browser language. For other browsers, you can simply modify the corresponding default language. Details are not elaborated here.

Open Google Chrome and click Settings. On the Settings page, select Languages, select Chinese (Simplified), select Display Google Chrome in this language, and restart the browser.

After modifying the language setting, you can refresh the report to view it in Simplified Chinese, and the toolbar will be displayed in Simplified Chinese, as shown in the following figure.

The following figure shows the widget display in Simplified Chinese.

The pop-up dialog boxes will also be displayed in Simplified Chinese when you use functions such as printing, exporting, and email sending on the report toolbar. When you use functions such as printing, exporting, and email sending of a report in Simplified Chinese, the related software should also be in the Simplified Chinese version. You may need to install the printer or PDF printing plugin of the Simplified Chinese version. The setting for other languages is similar. You simply need to change Simplified Chinese to another language.

The following figure shows the Flash dialog box.

Note:

Both the V11.0 designer and deployment package use OpenJDK, which causes the inability to start Flash printing. You can switch OpenJDK to Oracle/Sun JDK.

Decision-Making System Language

You need to use the Multi-Language Solution plugin to change the language of the decision-making system.

For details about how to change the language displayed on the login page, see Multilingual Switchover for the Platform.

After you install the plugin and log in to the system, you can switch the platform language, as shown in the following figure.

The following figure shows the decision-making system after you switch the language to Simplified Chinese.

When the languages of both the browser and the designer are switched to Simplified Chinese, you will be automatically redirected to the Simplified Chinese help document after you click the help document link in the decision-making system, as shown in the following figure.

Note:

Currently, Japanese and Korean help documents are not available. Therefore, you will be redirected to the English help documents after you click the links of English, Korean, and Japanese help documents.

Mobile Terminal Language

When you access the report system (in which the plugin is installed and the language is switched) through the DataAnalyst app, the language will also be changed, as shown in the following figure.

The DataAnalyst V11 app supports manual system language adjustment and automatic language adjustment by the system language on PC, as shown in the following figure.

For details, see [App] System Language.

In normal circumstances, internationalization is directly achieved through the browser language switchover.

1. If the browser language is Simplified Chinese, the widgets (for example, date widgets), toolbars, and pop-up dialog boxes (excluding areas specifically set in English) in the report will be displayed in Simplified Chinese automatically.

2. If the browser language is English and you want to switch the report language to Simplified Chinese, you need to use the forcible language switchover parameter &fr_locale=zh_CN to forcibly switch the language. However, currently this parameter only takes effect for CPT reports (not for FRM reports).

3. The following table shows the currently-supported internationalization parameters.

Note:

When you switch the language using parameters, if question marks (?) or other unexpected symbols appear on toolbars or in date widgets of the report, you can simply change the server's encoding method to UTF-8.