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Process of Maintaining Translation Tables for Oracle BI

The Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation layer supports multiple translations for any column name. When working with Oracle BI Answers or rendering a dashboard, users see their local language strings in their reports. For example, English-speaking and French-speaking users would see their local language strings in their reports. There are two kinds of application strings requiring translation in Oracle Business Intelligence:

• Metadata

  Metadata strings are Analytics-created objects in the Oracle Business Intelligence repository such as Subject Area, Metrics, and Dimensions.

• Presentation Services

  Presentation Services objects are end-user created objects such as Reports, Dashboards, and Pages. Translations for Presentation Services strings are stored in the captions.xml file. For more information on accessing these strings and changing the translations, see Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Administration Guide.

This process includes the following tasks:

• Upgrading Oracle Business Intelligence Seed Data for Non-English Locales
• Externalizing Metadata Strings
• Adding Custom Translations to the W_LOCALIZED_STRING_G Table