Comments on: Localizing Content Query Web Part XSL templates

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:38:17 +0000

@Qazi: I would say that first of all you need a custom XSLT function to determine whether you need to use the _AR suffix or not. Then using that information you would retrieve the values from the right fields. Depending on how many differences there are between the two languages, you can either use xsl:if or create two separate templates and call one of them depending on the language.

By: Qazi

Qazi — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:14:56 +0000

Thank you for this post.
I have a little bit different situation. I have a list from which I am populating values in my CQWP.
This list has 2 columns for each variation, for example
Title and Title AR (AR for Arabic)
Name and Name AR (AR for Arabic)
First thing, is this the correct approach?
Secondly, I want to display Title and Name when user is in English and Title AR and Name AR when user has arabic settings.
Please suggest me a way to do it. Should I also create 2 templates and apply conditions or is there any better way to do it?
Thanks

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:46:52 +0000

@Rahul: I'm not sure you can get the title of the CQWP into XSLT using the standard CQWP functionality.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Any suggestion from your end to achieve localization of the title of a web part will be appreciated.
Actually we don't want to extend the web part hence I thought XSL might be one option.
Thanks.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:40:12 +0000

@Rahul: It depends where you are displaying it. If you're using XSLT you can localize it using the method described above. If the title is being rendered on the Web Part title, the answer is no: you would have to localize all the different instances.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:32:34 +0000

Hi, Its a nice article.
Please let me know if we can localize the Title field of CQWP, i don't want to modify the CQWP using SP Designer. Is there a way we can do it in XSL ?.