Kbase 21437: WebClient 9.1x: -E Appears in startup.pf
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
16/10/2008 |
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Status: Verified
GOAL:
How is tailoring done for Webclient installations when the International English language is selected.
GOAL:
How to use -useOsLocale to modify tailoring of Webclient installation.
FIX:
When an install of Progress products for the International English language is done, users are allowed to choose the country that they are in so that the install can tailor certain options in the startup.pf file.
For example, if the user is in Europe, it will place a -E in the startup.pf. If user is from a country outside of Europe, it will not.
WebClient 9.1x does not allow such tailoring. If the International English language option is chosen, it will copy the English startup.pf from the prolang directory to C:\Program Files\Progress Software\WebClient, which by default contains the -E option. When installing WebClient, the users are not prompted for the country.
Since webinst.exe (which contains the necessary files for installation) in Progress 9.1x is compressed, there is no way to manually edit the startup.pf file before deploying the application. This means the startup.pf would have to be modified on the client side after WebClient has been downloaded and installed.
The workaround in this situation is to use the -useOsLocale parameter in the Application Configuration File. Specifically, it would need to be entered in the "Additional Startup Parameters" fill-in field in the Progress WebClient Application Manager.
To do this, go to the "Applications" tab > select the application > click the Edit button > go to the General tab. Here the "Additional Startup Parameters" fill-in field can be found. This allows the application developer to specify some client startup parameters that WebClient will use.