Updating the Language at Agent Desk

Setting up Supported Languages at Unified Admin

1. Open the Unified Admin with an admin account

2. From the left panel, expand the general drop-down

3. Go to local

4. Open the supported languages drop and check your desired languages

5. Click on save

Selecting a language at the Agent Desk

Follow Change Agent Desk Language

Procedure for updating languages and canned messages files at Server

Supported Languages:

While configuring the language files or canned-messages file, follow the language code and filename standards in the above table.

1. For adding a new Language

If updating the language files

Open i18n directory by running cd /root/cim-solution/kubernetes/pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/i18n

1. If the respective language files are not present, Upload the language files following the format {language_code}.json

2. If all the required files are available, there is no need to do anything

If updating the canned messages file

1. open the canned-messages directory by running cd root/cim-solution/kubernetes/pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/canned-messages/

   1. If the canned-messages.json file is not present, Upload the canned messages file following the format canned-messages.json

   2. If all the canned messages file is available, there is no need to do anything

2. Check the format for the files available

Locate to the directory where your files are present

1. In the case of Canned messages cd /root/cim-solution/kubernetes/pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/canned-messages/

2. In the case of language files cd /root/cim-solution/kubernetes/pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/i18n

Run the command file -bi *

The formats of all the files will be printed on the console, if there exists no “iso” format file skip steps 3

3. Run the script, in the same directory where files are present

Before running the script, you must have “recode“ tool installed. You can install recode by running the following command:-

For RHEL:-

Prepare for `recode ` utility prerequisites ( Skip if already deployed )

update the dnf cache

dnf update -y 

Install the epel-release rpm package for your RHEL Release ( change the version to match your RHEL major version )

subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm -y

yum --enablerepo=epel install recode -y

For Ubuntu:-

apt install recode

The below script will change all the “ISO” format files into utf-8, because There exist characters of different languages those aren’t supported in ISO-8859-1 format

convert_to_utf8() {
    local input_file=$1
    local backup_file="${input_file}.bak"
    local temp_file=$(mktemp "${input_file}.XXXXXX")

    cp -f "$input_file" "$backup_file"
    current_encoding=$(file -bi "$input_file" | grep -o 'charset=[^;]*' | sed 's/charset=//')
    if [ "$current_encoding" = "utf-8" ] || [ "$current_encoding" = "us-ascii" || [ "$current_encoding" = "binary" ]; then
        echo "The file $input_file is already in UTF-8 encoding."
        rm -f "$backup_file"
        rm -f "$temp_file"
    else
        # Convert the file using recode
        if ! recode "$current_encoding..utf-8" < "$input_file" > "$temp_file"; then
            echo "Conversion failed for $input_file. Restoring from backup."
            mv -f "$backup_file" "$input_file"
            rm -f "$temp_file"
            return
        fi
        echo "Conversion successful for $input_file."
        mv -f "$temp_file" "$input_file"
        rm -f "$backup_file"
    fi    
}
for file in *; do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        convert_to_utf8 "$file"
    fi
done
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.utf8' -exec rm -f {} + 
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} +
echo "Cleanup complete. Removed all .utf8 files and backup files."

4. Make the Necessary Changes

After following all the above steps you can now Open the language files or canned-messages file and edit them according to your requirements. After making your changes save the files.

5. Update the config map

1. For language files

   1. Delete the config map: kubectl delete cm ef-app-translations-cm -n expertflow

   2. Go to directory cim-solution/kubernetes/

   3. Apply new config map: kubectl -n expertflow create configmap ef-app-translations-cm --from-file=pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/i18n/

2. For Canned messages

   1. Delete the config map: kubectl -n expertflow delete configmap ef-canned-messages-cm

   2. Go to directory cim-solution/kubernetes/

   3. Create config map kubectl -n expertflow create configmap ef-canned-messages-cm --from-file=pre-deployment/app-translations/unified-agent/canned-messages

6. Redeploy the Agent Desk

1. cd /root/cim-solution/kubernetes/cim/Deployments

2. kubectl delete -f ef-unified-agent-deployment.yaml -n expertflow

3. kubectl apply -f ef-unified-agent-deployment.yaml -n expertflow