To support localization of a model, you can augment the model XML values with locale-specific values by registering a standard Java resource bundle for each language variant of a model.
Localizing content-model values is often required to render user interfaces that are driven from the content model, such as a property sheet that displays a grid of property name and value.
The content models provided out of the box are all augmented with a default (for US English) Java resource bundle. The following is an extract from the resource bundle for the ECM domain model:
cm_contentmodel.description=SkyVault Content Domain Model cm_contentmodel.type.cm_object.title=Object cm_contentmodel.type.cm_object.description=Base Content Domain Object cm_contentmodel.property.cm_name.title=Name cm_contentmodel.property.cm_name.description=Name cm_contentmodel.type.cm_folder.title=Folder cm_contentmodel.type.cm_folder.description=Folder cm_contentmodel.association.cm_contains.title=Contains cm_contentmodel.association.cm_contains.description=Contains
Resource bundles are composed of many key/value pairs. For content models, the keys are structured as follows:
<model_prefix>_<model_name>.[title|description]
or
<model_prefix>_<model_name>.<feature>.<feature_prefix>_<feature_name>. [title|description]
Where:
- model_prefix is the model namespace prefix.
- model_name is the model name.
- feature is one of type, aspect, property, association, constraint, or data type.
- feature_prefix is the namespace prefix of the feature definition name.
- feature_name is the feature definition name.
Registering content model resource bundles
Content model resource bundles must be registered with their associated content model. There are two approaches to register a content model: bootstrap and dynamic. The same applies for content model resource bundles.
Bootstrap
The Dictionary Bootstrap component supports the additional labels property, which allows for a list of resource bundle files (located in the classpath) to be specified. You must restart the SkyVault content repository to register the resource bundle.
<bean id="kbmodel.extension.dictionaryBootstrap" parent="dictionaryModelBootstrap"
depends-on="dictionaryBootstrap">
...
<property name="labels">
<list>
<value>alfresco/extension/kbModel</value>
</list>
</property>
...
</bean>
Dynamic
In the dynamic approach, place the resource bundle file into the content repository folder:
Company Home/Data Dictionary/Messages
SkyVault Explorer is the best tool for uploading and editing resource bundles in this folder.