How to customize Actuate Information Console text and messages on a Windows system

Use the location of your Information Console installation if it differs from the location used in this example.

1	Extract the contents of <context root>\WEB-INF\lib\resources.jar into a temporary directory.

1	Open a command window.

2	Back up your resources file:

cd "C:\Program Files\Actuate11\iPortal\iportal\WEB-INF\lib"

copy resources.jar resources.jar.original

3	Extract the resource file’s contents:

mkdir C:\ap

cd C:\ap

jar -xf "C:\Program Files\Actuate11\iPortal\iportal\WEB-INF\lib\resources.jar"

4	Leave the command window open.

2	Navigate to com\actuate\activeportal\resources and make a backup copy of ActivePortalResources.properties:

cd com\actuate\activeportal\resources

copy ActivePortalResources.properties ActivePortalResourcesOrig.properties

3	In a text editor that supports UTF-8 encoding, edit C:\ap\com\actuate\reportcast\resources\ActivePortalResources.properties to add your custom error messages in the following format:

<Errorcode>=Example of a message with no variables.

<Errorcode>=Example of a message with a variable {0}.

<Errorcode>=Message with three variables {0}, {1} and {2}.

where <Errorcode> is the Actuate error number or constant of the message being customized.

4	Save and close the file.

5	Rebuild the resources.jar file with your customized ActivePortalResources.properties file:

cd C:\ap

jar -cf resources.jar *

move resources.jar "C:\Program Files\Actuate11\iPortal\iportal\WEB-INF\lib\resources.jar"

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