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2/5/2006 9:50 AM

	Rodney Joyce
1583 posts
www.smart-thinker.com

Localization in core Scheduler

Hello

I am trying to localize the birthday email sent in my schedule item in the scheduler.
However - the DotNetNuke.Services.Localization.GetString() method uses the following line:

Dim objPortalSettings As PortalSettings = CType(HttpContext.Current.Items("PortalSettings"), PortalSettings)

Of course, you can't access the current context in the scheduler as it is not associated to a request - hence this falls over and you effectively cannot localize schedule content. Is this a correct assumption?
Is there any other way to handle localization in the scheduler with this in mind?

Here are some threads on similar topics:
http://forums.asp.net/1052637/ShowPost.aspx
http://forums.asp.net/846031/ShowPost.aspx

Thanks,
Rodney
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2/6/2006 12:50 AM

	Vicenç Masanas
1402 posts
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Re: Localization in core Scheduler

Rodney,
you can try another overload for that method:
Public Shared Function GetString(ByVal name As String, ByVal ResourceFileRoot As String, ByVal objPortalSettings As PortalSettings, ByVal strLanguage As String) As String

You should pass a valid PortalSettings object to avoid for obtaining it on the httpcontext. There a couple of overloads for that method take a look at them, but I think the above one could do the job for your situation.

2/6/2006 1:45 AM

	Rodney Joyce
1583 posts
www.smart-thinker.com

Re: Localization in core Scheduler

Thanks Vicenç - I started down this route, but this implies that I am looking at a particular portal - but I am not - it just needs to send a customizable message - I guess this is the problem - it needs to look at the default culture for that Portal - and yet the schedule is not necessarily related to a portal - perhaps I could chaneg the design of my schedule item to function by Portal instead...

I presume I can create PortalSettings without a current context? Just pass in the portal ID....

I'll look into it...

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