Restrict locale and language options in OAS

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Organization Name

Arval

Description

In OBIEE 12c it was possible to restrict the number of options that users can choose from under my account for the language and locale fields.

Documentation can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/biee/BIESG/deploylocal.htm#BIESG1409, see section 14.2.1.4 Configuring the Languages and Locales for the Sign-In Page. There it states that you can set this in the instanceconfig.xml. Eg:

<ServerInstance>
<Localization>
<AllowedLanguages>cs,da,de,en,fi,fr,hu,it,nl,no,pl,pt,sk,sv</AllowedLanguages>
<AllowedLocales>cs-cz,da-dk,de-at,de-ch,de-de,de-lu,en-gb,en-us,fi-fi,fr-be,fr-ch,fr-fr,fr-lu,hu-hu,it-ch,it-it,nl-be,nl-nl,no-no,pl-pl,pt-pt,sk-sk,sv-fi,sv-se</AllowedLocales>
</Localization>
</ServerInstance>

I've tried this out in OAS 5.5, but this does not work. After consulting Oracle Support it turns out that this feature only works when lightweight SSO is disabled. This is not an option for us.

We would like to restrict user locale and language options without having to disable lightweight SSO.

Use Case and Business Need

It is confusing to get a long list of locales/languages that an user can choose from. It would be helpfull to restrict the options to these that are supported by our IT department.

Original Idea Number: 7768388fc6