OIM 11g Localization Tips

As any other enterprise application, OIM 11g provides localization features: it detects user's browser language configuration and presents the UI to the end user accordingly to the configured language.
Customers can plug a lot of custom code and objects in OIM 11g in order to achieve their business requirements. While some customers don't care about localization, some of them do care, and this post gives tips on how to localize some pieces of OIM.

It is important to mention that this post does not show how to create custom fields (UDFs) or how to change request data sets.

The examples below use Brazilian Portuguese as the localization language. For other languages, check the other resource bundle files available in the exactly same folders.

Connector Request Dataset

The request data set field labels can be localized for any OIM connector deployed. The localized labels will show up when a user creates a request for that specific resource.

To localize a request data set, follow the steps below:

• Edit the file $OIM_HOME/server/server/customResources/customResources_pt_BR.properties
• Add the localization properties following the convention below:
• request.dataset.Resource.<Resource Name>.<Attr Name>
• Restart OIM Server

Notice that the property to be added to the properties file has to follow the naming convention described above. If the <Resource Name> or <Attribute Name> contains space, you must escape it like in "OID\ User".