Localize Catalog Captions
As an administrator, you can localize the names of reporting objects that users create in the catalog. Object names are also known as captions. For example, you might localize the names of dashboards and analyses into Spanish and French.
See What Languages does Oracle Analytics Support?.
To localize object names in the catalog, you export the captions from the catalog, localize them, and then upload the localized captions back into the catalog.
Before you start, in the analysis editor select each column that you'd like to localize and select the Custom Headings option in the column properties (click the column menu and select Column Properties, then click Column Format).
Export Captions from the Catalog
The following procedure describes how to export text strings in the catalog.
Localize Your Captions
After you have exported your captions in an XML file, deliver the
XML file to the localization team. For example, if you selected the Custom folder to
download, you’ll deliver a file named
_shared_Custom_captions.xml
.
You and the localization team are responsible for resolving any errors in the translated text strings. Consider that the contents of the catalog are updated whenever objects are added, deleted, or modified.
The first illustration shows an extract from an exported caption XML file before translation. The file is named myfoldercaptions.xml. The second illustration shows an extract from the file after translation. The file is named myfoldercaptions_fr.xml.