One of the features IDM 4.5 documentation is missing are the instructions on how to add new locales to Home and Provisioning Dashboard (HPD) including the One SSO Provider (OSP) login page and the "old" UserApplication (UA) interface.

After several support tickets, talking to NetIQ representatives and browsing through support forums I (hope, I) finally found the answer after trial and error. So this guide is intended for users who want to translate the Identity Manager HPD and UA into a language that is not part of the standard language support set.

The solution works also if you want to modify already supported locales strings to your needs.

Add new locale

 

First we need to add new locale to supported locales. For some reason, we are going to add Finnish (fi).

User Application strings are stored in the User Application driver and in the User Application WAR file. To get started we need to modify both of them.

Prerequisites

• Java JDK (jar program)

• IDM 4.5 Identity Applications Deployed

• UserAppStrings_en.jar - file (from /opt/netiq/idm/apps/UserApplication/l10n-resources/userapp)

• a lot on patience to go through all the properties files

 

Localization

1. Create UserAppStrings_fi.jar

• Unpack UserAppStrings_en.jar

• You get a whole bunch of properties files.

• Translate the strings to Finnish and remember to rename the translated files to *_fi.properties.

• Pack the translated files to UserAppStrings_fi.jar

WARNING: 
Remember to keep the folder/file structures and naming conventions.

 

2. Add new locale to User Application Driver

Right-click the User Application driver in the Provisioning view, select Configure/Locales.

Click  on the green - sign, then select the Language "Finnish" click OK.
Type in the Locale value "fi" for Finnish.

The language is now displayed in the Locales section.



Click on to Localization Resource Groups

Select the Localization Resource Group, where you want the new locale to be supported, example "Common".



Click on the green - sign in the Locales area, then in the Add Locales - window, move the Finnish - locale from the Available Locales: to the Selected Locales: - list.



Click OK.

Repeat these steps on all the Localization Resource Groups. Click OK in the end.

3. Deploy changes to the User Application driver.

Right-click the User Application driver in the Provisioning view, select Live/Deploy.

4. Extra settings (not mandatory)

You can export/translate/import User Application driver data such as display labels for entities, provisioning request definitions and teams, also E-mail notification templates. But these are not mandatory to get the new locale working, you can add new locale strings for those through Designer later.

 

Installation of the localization strings

 

Stop idmapps.

/etc/init.d/idmapps_tomcat_init stop

Create temp directories.

mkdir -p /tmp/IDMProv/WEB-INF/lib

Copy IDMProv.war to tmp for update.

cd /tmp/IDMProv
cp /opt/netiq/idm/apps/tomcat/webapps/IDMProv.war .

Put your localized jar file UserAppStrings_fi.jar in /tmp/IDMProv/WEB-INF/lib - folder and add the file to war package.

jar -uf IDMProv.war WEB-INF/lib/UserAppStrings_fi.jar

Remember to backup your original IDMProv.war before next step.

Replace the original IDMProv.war with your modified IDMProv.war

cd /opt/netiq/idm/apps/tomcat/webapps
cp /tmp/IDMProv/IDMProv.war .

Delete the following files and folders:

• IDMProv - folder from the tomcat/webapps -folder

• All files and folders from the tomcat/temp -folder

• All files and folders from the tomcat/work -folder

 

Start idmapps

/etc/init.d/idmapps_tomcat_init start

Your added Finnish localization string are now deployed to
/opt/netiq/idm/apps/tomcat/webapps/IDMProv/WEB-INF/lib/UserAppStrings_fi.jar
And the strings are visible in the /IDMProv/ - urls when your user account has attribute srvprvPreferredLocale set to "fi".

In the next part of this series I will be covering the HPD and OSP localization. Stay tuned.