4.3 Localizing Identity Manager Home and the Provisioning Dashboard

You can localize or customize the text displayed on Identity Manager Home and Provisioning Dashboard by modifying a set of language-specific properties files provided by Identity Manager. Localization properties files use the .properties extension.

Identity Manager Home includes the following properties files by default:

Language

Locale Designation

Chinese (China)

zh_CN

Chinese (Taiwan)

zh_TW

Danish

da

Dutch

nl

English

en

French

fr

German

de

Italian

it

Japanese

ja

Portuguese

pt

Russian

ru

Spanish

es

Swedish

sv

To customize Identity Manager Home strings for your environment, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to Identity Manager Home using an domain administrator account that is assigned the Role Administrator, Resource Administrator, Provisioning Administrator, and Security Administrator roles.

  2. On Identity Manager Home, select Edit.

  3. Select Localize.

  4. Select the locale for which you want to localize and save the properties file to your local computer.

  5. Open the properties file in a text editor and specify text for each property listed. For example, if you download the sv.properties file to localize Identity Manager Home and the Provisioning Dashboard in Swedish, modify the properties file as follows:

    # English value: My Category
category-featured-47-name = Min kategori

    NOTE:If you want to use double-byte or extended characters in the properties file, ensure that you save the file using the correct encoding.

  6. Save and close the properties file.

  7. On Identity Manager Home, select the File Upload icon File Upload icon for the locale.

  8. Navigate to the properties file on your local computer and select Open.

  9. Repeat Step 4 through Step 8 for each locale you want to enable.

  10. Select Back to edit, then select I’m done.