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About Configuring Oracle BI and the Operational Application to Display the Same Language

Oracle BI supports multiple languages for the application's user interface. Changing the language normally requires manual user intervention by choosing the language on the Oracle BI Presentation Services logon page or changing the language in the My Account page after logging on.

For consistent language display in an integrated Oracle BI implementation, you must define a URL parameter as a profile attribute. Doing so dynamically sets the language of the Oracle BI Presentation Services Dashboards and reports to be consistent with the operational application's language setting.

The operational application uses symbolic URLs to embed Oracle BI Dashboards and reports in the integrated environment. For the Oracle BI Presentation Services, the URL parameter Lang designates the language that the Web page renders.

The Lang parameter can be included in the symbolic URL defined in the operational application to connect to Oracle BI. The Lang parameter is defined as a profile attribute, but when the symbolic URL is constructed in runtime, the value is set as the profile attribute LanguageCode. The following table shows an example of the parameter settings in the Symbolic URL parameters applet, including Lang.

For example, the URL

http://<ServerName>:<port number>/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&Lang=fr

displays theOracle BI Presentation Services logon page in French.