Supporting Foreign Language Translation

In the previous section, you learned how to implement currency conversion to accommodate multiple currencies within your cube for reporting and analysis. You can also apply translations to your cube to display the labels on rows and columns in different languages. Together, currency conversion and translation enables you to provide an analytical solution that displays local currency and local language.

When browsing your cube, member captions are the labels for attributes that appear as headers in rows and columns. By default, these captions correspond to the name that you assign to an attribute. In this section, you will learn how to add translations to dimensions, measure groups, measures, and calculated ...

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