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About Report Translation

To translate reports, you must externalize the user interface elements for localization in the languages that you want. To externalize the user interface means to separate the localizable attributes from the nonlocalizable attributes of the user interface elements for each translation. In the case of reports, strings are externalized to an XLIFF file. The XLIFF format separates localizable text from formatting, allowing the translator to work only on the text to be translated. For more information about XLIFF files related to Siebel Reports, see Siebel Reports Directory Structure.

Typically, an administrator manages report translations; a third party usually performs the actual translation.

NOTE:  For a list of the languages that Siebel Reports supports, see Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network.

When multilingual reports are generated for a specific report locale, the following occurs for each component of the report translation:

• Template text elements. Translation is determined by way of the translations in the relevant XLIFF file.
• MLOVs. Translation is determined based on the selected report locale and LOV data extracted by way of EAI in the relevant language.
• Dates and currency formatting. The format of date, time, and currency fields is based on the template functions: format-date() and format-currency(). Both of these Oracle BI Publisher functions use the locale code specified for the report generation to determine the correct format to display based on the Oracle BI Publisher locale format definitions.

CAUTION:  Each translated report must have a unique translated display name. If there are duplicate names for translated reports, then when those names pass from the browser to the Siebel Server, the server cannot differentiate which report to generate.

Related Topics

About Working with Multilingual Reports

Designing Multilingual Reports

Roadmap for Uploading Multilingual Reports to the Siebel Application

Adding and Deleting Locales from Report Templates