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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Tutorials
HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
Starter stores
HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the storefront.
Adding languages to a store (Data load)
In this tutorial, you add support for more languages to HCL Commerce.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
  - Docker start-up logic
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to the customizing Docker start-up logic. The following tutorials provide sample guides to defining the custom logic.
  - Programming model
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance HCL Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the HCL Commerce programming model.
  - Web services
    Web services tutorials introduce the various tasks that are related to creating and customizing web services for HCL Commerce applications.
  - Management Center
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing Management Center.
  - Migration
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to migration from previous versions of WebSphere Commerce. The following tutorials provide sample guides to migrating your WebSphere Commerce sites to HCL Commerce Version 9.
  - Search
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to describe how to customize HCL Commerce Search.
  - Starter stores
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the storefront.
    - Customizing the storefront
      In this tutorial, you learn how to customize the storefront for a custom store by shortening the store URL and adding a view to the for the storefront by updating the context root, and add a view to display the home page.
    - Adding support for a language to a store (REST API)
      In this tutorial, you add a new language to HCL Commerce for use in your organization's asset stores and an extended sites store.
    - Adding a store page
      In this tutorial, you create a new page in your custom store that captures additional demographic information about the customer.
    - Customizing Commerce Composer widgets to display additional information
      In this tutorial, you update a Commerce Composer widget to display additional information.
    - Adding languages to a store (Data load)
      In this tutorial, you add support for more languages to HCL Commerce.
      - Configuring bootstrap files
        In this lesson, you are configuring the bootstrap files that are required to support the new languages to your HCL Commerce instance. You must update the main bootstrap file and create the multi-language bootstrap files and load the files to add the language support.
      - Including language data
        In this lesson, you learn how to include the language data you created in the previous step into your HCL Commerce instance. In this step of the tutorial, you include the locale information by updating the instance configuration files.
      - Summary: Adding languages to HCL Commerce
        In this tutorial, you created a pair of locales and added support for the locales to your HCL Commerce instance and starter store.
    - Adding support for a language to a store (REST API)
      In this tutorial, you add a new language to HCL Commerce for use in your organization's asset stores and an extended sites store.
    - Adding support for a currency to a store (REST API)
      In this tutorial, you add a new currency to HCL Commerce for use in your organization's asset stores and an extended sites store.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Tutorial: Adding languages to a store with data load

In this tutorial, you add support for more languages to HCL Commerce.

By default, HCL Commerce is translated into the following 13 languages:

Translated languages
Language & Country or Region	Identifier
English (United States)	en_US
French (France)	fr_FR
German (Germany)	de_DE
Italian (Italy)	it_IT
Spanish (Spain)	es_ES
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt_BR
Chinese-simplified (China)	zh_CN
Chinese-traditional (Taiwan)	zh_TW
Korean (Korea, South)	ko_KR
Japanese (Japan)	ja_JP
Russian (Russia)	ru_RU
Romanian (Romania)	ro_RO
Polish (Poland)	pl_PL

The language support includes the software, documentation, and user interfaces such as the Management Center, HCL Commerce Accelerator, the Administration Console, and samples. You can add support for other languages. You can translate many of the features of your site, such as product descriptions, messages, and text on the pages.

In this tutorial, you add support for Canadian dialects. English and French are added to the Management Center and your HCL Commerce stores.

Note: Before you begin this tutorial, backup your database.

Learning objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:

Instance configuration files
Language data
Properties and resource bundle files
The selected Languages list

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to complete the following tasks:

Creating and updating bootstrap files
Include language data in the HCL Commerce instance
Indexing language data with HCL Commerce search
Adding language support to Management Center
Adding language support to HCL Commerce stores
Creating properties files for new languages
Loading language data into stores
Grouping languages by country and separating languages by store

Time required

Expect this tutorial to take 4 hours to complete. This tutorial can take longer if you explore concepts that are related to this tutorial.

Skill level

This tutorial is intended for advanced HCL Commerce developers responsible for adding language support for stores and customizing Management Center. To complete this tutorial, be familiar with the following terms and concepts:

System requirements

Before you begin the tutorial, ensure that you complete the following tasks:

Install WebSphere Commerce Developer.