New Advanced Localization Technique

micajblock

This is an update to this devshare - http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/designing-birt-reports/828-advance-localization-technique/<br />
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There are many cases where a user needs to run a report in a locale that is different than their own. For example a custom service representative in New York that needs to run a statement for a customer in Japan.<br />
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In BIRT 2.6 one can specify a specific locale for the format of a number or date. This design used data to specify the format locale. The code is actually very simple:

this.getStyle().numberLocale = this.getRowData().getColumnValue("Locale");

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or for a date:

this.getStyle().dateLocale = this.getRowData().getColumnValue("Locale");

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Obviosly it can be done base on parameters also:

this.getStyle().numberLocale = params["pLocale"].value;