How to Internationalizing Input Controls in Jasper

Prerequisites: Jasper studio7 professional.
Database: Foodmart.

1. Create a sample report with food mart database.
2. Drag and drop a Text field from palette tab in right hand side.
3. In the text field enter text field as below shown image.



Here “R” meaning Internationalizing of field in jasper.

4. We need bundles to get the locale language. For that we are going to create two properties files.
5. Create the localereport.properties file: Country=country in English.
6. Translate the text as required, and save it as localereport_fr.properties: Country=pay
7. Click on report name and go to Resource bundle properties, there you can give name as localereport.
8. Deploy the report in jasper server.
9. Go to Jasper studio and select report from the jasper server repository.
10. Here we can add resource bundle from the local.

Right click on report>Select New> Select Resource Bundle.


11. Repeat this for all languages using the example: localereport_fr.properties
12. In the jasper server create a parameter globally.

Input Control –> Add Resource –> Click on Input Control.

13. Select single value type and in the Prompt Text you should give as below shown in image.



14. In the Set the Datatype Kind and Properties section mention name as below.



15. Save and run the report with appropriate locale. You will get the result as below.

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