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Synchronizing Locale-Sensitive Parameters

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For the Reports Server to format reports based on user-specified locale, the locale definitions in localemap.xml file should match the equivalent parameters in the Siebel Application Object Manager.

When deploying the Siebel Reports Server in a different locale, changes are sometimes needed in how numbers and currencies are read. This is the case for the ITA (Italian) locale.

For example, a customer is deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications in Italy. The Siebel Server and the Reports Server machines are running under the ITA locale. The Siebel application uses the same thousands and decimal separators for numbers and currency (a comma for thousands and a dot for decimals). However, at the operating system level, the separators appear to be different.

The reports server administrator needs to modify the thousand and decimal separators for digits and currency (in the ITA locale) on the Reports Server machine to be in sync with the sThousand and sDecimal parameters defined for the Italian Application Object Manager. For example, sThousand and sDecimal parameters are set to dot and comma respectively. The digits grouping symbol and decimal symbol properties for both numbers and currency in the Windows Regional Settings of the Report Server should also be dot and comma.

In Siebel applications, currency and number data formats are decided in part by sDecimal and sThousand parameters. In Windows, currency and numbers have their own set of properties that allow users to customize the formats separately. The decimal symbol and digits grouping symbol for both currency and number in the Windows Regional Settings of the Report Server should be identical to those of sDecimal and sThousand parameters in the Application Object Manager.

Verify that the locale-specific parameters in Regional Settings match the corresponding parameters in the Application Object Manager. See Table 5 for a list of these parameters.

For more information about setting parameters for application object managers, see Siebel Server Administration Guide.

Table 5.  Windows Regional Settings and Application Object Manager Parameters

Tab in Regional Settings Dialog Box	Windows Parameter	Application Object Manger Parameter	Description
Number	Decimal symbol	sDecimal	Character used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number and currency.
	Digit grouping symbol	sThousand	This is the symbol used to separate thousands in numbers and currencies with more than three digits.
	Number of Digits after Decimal	iDigits	Value defining the number of decimal digits that should be used in a number.
	Display leading zeros	iLzero	iLzero=0 > Display without leading zero. siLzero=1> Display with leading zeros.
Currency	Decimal symbol	sDecimal	Character used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number and currency.
	Digit grouping symbol	sThousand	This is the symbol used to separate thousands in numbers and currencies with more than three digits.
		iCurrency	iCurrency=0 > no separation between currency symbol prefix and number. iCurrency=1 > no separation between currency symbol suffix and number. iCurrency=2 > one character separation between currency symbol prefix and number. iCurrency=3 > one character separation between currency symbol suffix and number.
	Negative currency format	iNegCurr	iNegCurr=0 -> ($1.1) iNegCurr=1 -> -$1.1 iNegCurr=2 -> $-1.1 iNegCurr=3 -> $1.1- iNegCurr=4 -> (1.1$) iNegCurr=5 -> -1.1$ iNegCurr=6 -> 1.1-$ iNegCurr=7 -> 1.1$- iNegCurr=8 -> -1.1 $ iNegCurr=9 -> -$ 1.1 iNegCurr=10 -> 1.1 $- iNegCurr=11 -> $ 1.1- iNegCurr=12 -> $ -1.1 iNegCurr=13 -> 1.1- $ iNegCurr=14 -> ($ 1.1) iNegCurr=15 -> (1.1 $)
Parameter	Time separator	sTime	Time separator. This character is displayed between hours and minutes, and between minutes and seconds.
	Time style	iTime	iTime=0 > 12-hour clock. iTime=1 > 24-hour clock.
	Time style	iTLZero	Specifies whether or not the hours should have a leading zero. iTLZero=0 > without leading zero. iTLZero=1 > with leading zero.
	AM symbol	s1159	This setting contains the trailing string used for times between 00:00 and 11:59.
	PM symbol	s2359	Trailing string for times between 12:00 and 23:59, when in 12-hour clock format.
Date	Date separator	sDate	Character used to separate the integer part from the month, day and year either using a slash (/) or a dash (-).
	Short date style	sShortDate	Date value in the format mm/dd/yy or mm-dd-yy where the month (mm), day (dd), and year (yy) are expressed as two-digit numbers.
	Long date style	sLongDate	Date value in the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy where yyyy represents the year expressed as a four-digit number.

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