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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 27, 2020

I18N support for webApps and microservices

The C8Y platform itself supports I18N and also has APIs where user created content (webApps/microservices) add assets to C8Y. The webApps/microservices of course can provide I18N, but there is no support from C8Y. Especially, assets like roles/permissions created by a microservice appear in the C8Y core API and are only available in one language.

As many SAG customers are also international companies, I expect many of them wanting to develop webApps/Microservices with I18N.

Cumulocity IoT DataHub is another example of a webApp/Microservice which would profit from the feature. However, as internal customers we have other means to work around this.

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Feb 7, 2020

    Cumulocity IoT provides a framework and full support for internationalisation. However, translation strings need to be provided at build time of the webApp.

    In case, new translations are added by other sources (e.g. because a Microservice introduces a new role or a device sends an alarm message) the only way to offer I18N in such a case is to include the translation of those strings in advance when building the WebApp.

    Providing the option to dynamically add translation strings would certainly be valuable in such cases.

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