/product-groups/tridion/tridion-sites/b/techweblog/posts/inspect-the-dxa-localization-objectSometimes you just want to look under the hood and see what DXA is doing. Here is a tool to inspect the Localization object for DXA .NET. This also gives insight in all the published resources and configuration parameters. I use this when I have to useen-USTelligent Community 12 Non-Productionhttps://uat.community.rws.com/product-groups/tridion/tridion-sites/b/techweblog/posts/inspect-the-dxa-localization-objectSat, 06 May 2017 10:18:58 GMT10acfa76-f078-475b-a7ef-fc5b3e8d2934:86b3124a-976a-455f-8d16-ec9b35df7d2bJan Horsman0<p>@Alvin: Yes, <a href="http://localhost/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/</a> is mapped to publication 51. <a href="http://localhost/demo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/demo</a> is mapped to publication 58.</p> <p>The <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;">Localization</span> object contains a property <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;">SiteLocalizations</span> which has all the other related publications. This tools shows the <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;">Localization</span> object and all it&#39;s properties, including the <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;">Localization.SiteLocalizations</span>. It&#39;s this class <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;"><a href="https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-dotnet/blob/release/1.7/Sdl.Web.Common/Configuration/Localization.cs).">Sdl.Web.Common.Configuration.Localization</a></span>.</p> <p>You do not get all DXA publications in <span style="font-family:courier new,courier;">Localization.SiteLocalizations</span>, but only the related ones. The DXA Publication Medatada schema has a field &quot;<em>Site Identifier - used to group publications together to define a single website</em>&quot;. In this case publicatin 51 and 58 have the same Site Identifier, but the same CD evironments has a couple of other DXA sites with other Site Identifiers as well.</p><img src="https://uat.community.rws.com/aggbug?PostID=6645&AppID=95&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://uat.community.rws.com/product-groups/tridion/tridion-sites/b/techweblog/posts/inspect-the-dxa-localization-objectTue, 02 May 2017 16:59:35 GMT10acfa76-f078-475b-a7ef-fc5b3e8d2934:86b3124a-976a-455f-8d16-ec9b35df7d2bAlvin Reyes0<p>Automated documentation and system awareness are always nice. So in your example, localhost is pointing to a specific Publication (51, in the screenshot)?</p> <p>But you also get the site localizations for all of the DXA publications as well?</p> <img src="https://uat.community.rws.com/aggbug?PostID=6645&AppID=95&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">