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To get the value of a localization token in a service, you can use the following snippet. Do we know what the corresponding code is inside a widget? If I use `getProperty()`
on a localized string I get back something like "[[TokenName]]" (where "TokenName" is the name of the localization token the user bound to the property. Am I supposed to check for the double-brackets and look up the value of the localization token?
```var params = {
token: "TokenName"
};
var result = Resources["RuntimeLocalizationFunctions"].GetEffectiveToken(params);
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It turns out you need to set the isLocalizable flag for the properties in runtimeProperties (in mywidget.runtime.js), not just widgetProperties (in mywidget.ide.js). For example:
this.runtimeProperties = function () {
return {
'propertyAttributes': {
'Header': {
'isLocalizable': true
}
}
};
};
To be a bit more clear, my widget has a property called "Header" that has isLocalizable set to true. This property is bound to the localization token "TokenName". When I get the value for the property using this.getProperty("Header"), the return value is "[[TokenName]]".
So I either need to use something other than getProperty() to get the localized property value or I need to look up the localization token value (using, for example, GetEffectiveToken) if the property value starts with "[[" and ends with "]]". If I need to use GetEffectiveToken, how do I get access to the object that implements it?
I found TW.Runtime.convertLocalizableString('[[reply]]') but from the code I see, it seems like I shouldn't have to do that when getting the value of localized widget properties.
So that is how to look up localization tokens in a widget.
Now I need to figure out why my widget property values are coming in as "[[TokenName]]" instead of as the localized value...
It turns out you need to set the isLocalizable flag for the properties in runtimeProperties (in mywidget.runtime.js), not just widgetProperties (in mywidget.ide.js). For example:
this.runtimeProperties = function () {
return {
'propertyAttributes': {
'Header': {
'isLocalizable': true
}
}
};
};