How to change the Languages And Locales In The OBIEE Login Screen - QuontraSolutions

How to modify the list of available languages and locales in the Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) login screen, for versions 10g (10.1.3.x.x) and 11g (currently 11.1.1.3.0).

Solution:

In OBIEE 10g it is possible to change the list of available languages and locales in the log in screen. This is done by editing instanceconfig.xml file under the directory

<OracleBIData>/web/config

and adding/removing the languages from the corresponding tags.

For example, to display only Germand and English languages, you can set it as follow:

<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>

<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>

Then, you need to restart Presentation Server.

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In OBIEE 11g the settings have changed. In the instanceconfig file now you need to modify within the <Localization> tag. 

The instanceconfig.xml file is located under

<BI_HOME>/instances/instance3/config/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent/coreapplication_obips1

for example

C:\OBIEE_11g\instances\instance3\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1

This is how you need to modify the instanceconfig.xml file:

<Localization>

<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>

<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>

</Authentication>

<Localization>

<AllowedLanguages>de,en</AllowedLanguages>

<AllowedLocales>de-at,de-ch,de-de,en-us</AllowedLocales>

</Localization>

</ServerInstance>

</WebConfig>

</Localization>