Current user's language

EvR

Hi all,

A pretty basic question, but is it possible to get the client language of the current user in C/AL?

Gr, Erik

Jan_Veenendaal

Use the GLOBALLANGUAGE function

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd338772(v=nav.90).aspx

Jan_Veenendaal

Use the GLOBALLANGUAGE function

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd338772(v=nav.90).aspx

RockWithNAV

Yep as Jan Suggested GLOBALLANGUAGE function is the only keyword in NAV which you can use AFAIK.

EvR

And what exactly is the GLOBALLANGUAGE?
MSDN doesn't really explain anything, as is often the case.

Is it the service language, or the actual language in which the user's client is running?

Jan_Veenendaal

you asked for the client's language, so that's what you get. This is for all client types.

The function WINDOWSLANGUAGE returns the OS language setting (which might of course be different)

I think there is no function available to get the service's language - the service has to serve any (available) language so it its language should not be of any importance.


In the Classic Client ( NAV 2009R2 and earlier ) there also was a LANGUAGE function, that could be set for each form, report or dataport. This function is not available in 3-tier deployments.

EvR

Yep that's what I asked for, but that's not what 'GLOBALLANGUAGE' suggests to me and MSDN wasn't clear. Global, to me, suggest some kind of common language (service). I would have called it 'CLIENTLANGUAGE' myself
Thanks.

Jan_Veenendaal

I agree. Naming is unclear in this case.