Botbuilder-dotnet: Change locale during runtime

Created on 16 Nov 2020 · 9Comments · Source: microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet

Just wanted to implement a second language to a bot and to my surprise it is not possible to change the locale at runtime. In this bot we define the locale based on fields we receive from the web client and allow the user to change their locale in the bot when they prefer to talk in a different language.

Other typical use case is to set the locale based on the locale settings of the users mailbox settings using a Graph Api call after authentication.

Hope I am overlooking something here...

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cxbuilders

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Hello @cxbuilders

Would you please clarify whether this post was meant as a bug, feature request, or question? If this is a question then it probably belongs on Stack Overflow, but in any case it would help us a lot if you worded this as an actual question so that we can answer it for you. Thank you.

v-kydela on 16 Nov 2020

@v-kydela It's a feature request.

cxbuilders on 17 Nov 2020

Thank you for the reply, @cxbuilders

Can you explain what feature you are requesting? I am able to change the locale during runtime without issue. I can store a locale in a user-scoped property and then provide that property as an expression for the default locale of a confirmation input. As long as I make sure my client isn't putting a locale in the activities it sends to the bot, my custom locale will be used. Can you perhaps explain what you've tried and what difficulties you're running into?

v-kydela on 17 Nov 2020

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@cxbuilders I'm transferring this to SDK repo since SDK is not ready yet. SDK side is pretty close with this, we already have the right structure setup, just the last mile to finish the E2E.