eB: error message "Culture 'en' is a neutral culture" is recieved when opening Report


  
 Applies To 
  
 Product(s):eB Web
 Version(s):15.5.1-15.6.1, 16.X.X
 Environment: N/A
 Area: Searching
 Subarea: Reports
 Original Author:Gintautas Bajoriunas, Bentley Technical Support Group
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error or Warning Message

Culture 'en' is a neutral culture. It cannot be used in formatting and parsing and therefore cannot be set as the thread's current culture.

Explanation

Error message is received on opening Report with date parameter.

It is a known issue which is caused by set language in Internet Explorer. eB versions 15.5.1 and 15.6.1 does not supports languages without locale.

How to Avoid

Option 1: Fixing issue from server side (this change will affect all users)

  1. In eB server navigate to virtual directory, locate web.config file and open it with text editor.

  2. Search for tag  <globalization culture="auto" uiCulture="auto" enableClientBasedCulture="true" />

  3.  Change culture and uiCUlture from auto to specific language and locale. As in example it was changed to en-GB

  4.  IIS restart is required for changes to take effect.

Option 2: Fixing issue user side

  1. Open Internet Explorer, navigate to Internet Options>Language and from ‘Language Preferences’ delete language without locale

  2. Then in ‘Language Preferences’ window press on Add button and add language with locale. Save and close it.

See Also

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