When you sign on, Pega Platform uses the time zone and output locale setting in Operator ID data instance as default values. Use this tool to set temporary values for your current time zone and currency, to control the display of numbers and dates, and to control the dictionary used for spellchecking.
To change the locale for the current session, you need to override some locale settings.
Changes are effective immediately and remain in force until you log off or choose another locale.
Changing the locale with this tool only affects Pega Platform. It does not update the locale established in your Internet Explorer browser, and does not change the workstation time zone, which is saved in a Windows Control panel.
Field |
Description |
| Base Currency |
Optional. Identify a base currency using International Standards Organization codes, such as Ordinarily, Java JVMs compute a base currency code from the country code portion of the locale. |
| Use Locale |
Optional. Select a locale description to be used for date, time, and number formats for the duration of this session. For example, when you choose These date formats follow the Unicode CLDR 1.3 standard. For more information, see Locale Settings tool - Date time formats. |
| Use Time Zone |
Optional. Identify a time zone by code, such as The value you enter in this field is not validated. To access a list of valid time zones, open any operator ID and review the Work tab. Enter a value in this field that exactly matches the spelling of an item in the drop-down list for the Time Zone field on that tab. Daylight savings time rules are supplied by Java JDK vendors. In a multinode system, it is important that the same rules are installed on each node. For details of vendor JDK support of daylight savings time and downloads, consult one of the following links: |
An activity can change a user locale temporarily by calling the PublicAPI function setLocaleName(). For example, a multilingual worker might switch between English and Spanish rapidly, to match the speech of an incoming caller, by clicking a button in the Case Manager or Case Worker portal.
This lets your application implement a user selection of locale (as application users do not ordinarily have access to the Locale Settings tool).
Click Demo to experiment with input and display values in the new setting. This opens a new window that demonstrates the effect of the locale setting on date and amounts.
Click Submit to open the form. Enter values and click Compute. For example, if you choose France as the locale, then enter a date and time in the European format (DD/MM/YY), the applet displays the results in various formats.
This demonstration facility downloads and installs a Java applet on your Windows workstation to fetch the workstation locale. Your workstation must contain a Java JVM and your Internet Explorer settings must allow Java applet to run. Other Pega Platform operations do not require Java applets. When you click Compute, the JVM on the server, not the JVM on the workstation, performs the computation.