Can't change language

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Hey,
I just installed OpenBoxes and I can’t change the language because every character of the language options is a link that doesn’t do anything.
Is there any way to fix this?
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-Torksi

2

That’s odd. Did you edit the supported locales property in openboxes-config.properties or openboxes-config.groovy?

3

As a workaround, you can change the default locale for you account using the Edit Profile page.

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No I haven’t edited any configs after installation.
Here is my openboxes-config.properties:

# Database connection settings
dataSource.username=openboxes
dataSource.password=<My password is here>
dataSource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openboxes?useSSL=false

# Used primarily with g:link when absoluteUrl is true (e.g. links in emails)
grails.serverURL=http://localhost:8080/openboxes

# OpenBoxes mail settings - disabled by default (unless you set up an SMTP server)
#grails.mail.enabled=true
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And in my edit profile page it does the same thing

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So for some reason the application is evaluating the property

openboxes.locale.supportedLocales

as a String rather than an array of Strings. In other it words, the application is seeing this

openboxes.locale.supportedLocales = "['ar', 'en', 'fr', 'de', 'it', 'es', 'pt']"

rather than this

openboxes.locale.supportedLocales = ['ar', 'en', 'fr', 'de', 'it', 'es', 'pt']

The default is set to the latter (an array of strings) so this is getting

Questions:

  1. What version of the application are you using? In fact these three fields in the footer would be helpful

    • Application Version: 0.8.12-SNAPSHOT
    • Branch: develop
    • Build Number: v0.8.11-46-g694f406

  2. Can you try to restart the server and see if it just needed to recombobulate?

  3. If not, any chance I can get temporary access to your OB instance?

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  1. Here is my footer:
    © 2020 Powered by OpenBoxes | Grails Version: 1.3.9 | Application Version: 0.8.11 | Branch: master | Build Number: v0.8.11 | Environment: production | Build Date: 14 Jan 2020 10:19:45 PM
  2. I already tried to restart it twice, in catalina.out log there are no errors
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Can you check whether there’s another file under /opt/tomcat/.grails?

9

No, the only file in there is openboxes-config.properties

10

I changed some file permissions and now it seems to be working.

11

Ok, so here’s what you can try to do. Create a new file /opt/tomcat/.grails/openboxes-config.groovy and add the following line to it and restart Tomcat.

openboxes.locale.supportedLocales = ['ar', 'en', 'fr', 'de', 'it', 'es', 'pt']

NOTE: You can remove the language codes that you don’t plan to use.

If that doesn’t work, we can try declaring a list variable and setting it this way.

def supportedLocales = ['ar', 'en', 'fr', 'de', 'it', 'es', 'pt']
openboxes.locale.supportedLocales = new List(supportedLocales)
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I changed some file permissions and now it seems to be working.

Awesome. I was going to suggest that earlier but then figured there was no way that could be the issue. I guess I was wrong.