You can create a report in IBM® Cognos® Report
Studio that can be viewed in different languages. For example, you
can specify that text such as the title appears in German when the
report is opened by a German user. You can also add translations for
text objects and create other language-dependent objects.
Before you begin
If you want the report to show data in different languages,
the model must also be multilingual.
Procedure
- Create a report language variable.
- In the work area, select the object to modify based on
a language.
- In the Properties pane, double-click
the Style Variable property.
If
you are changing the language of a text string, click Text
Source Variable instead.
- Click Variable and click the language
variable you created.
- In the Values box, select the languages
for the condition to support and click OK.
Tip: A default value exists for the variable, and
it is always selected.
- Pause the pointer over the condition explorer button
and a language for the variable. Tip: When you select a value in the condition explorer, the Explorer bar becomes green to indicate that conditional formatting is turned on and that any changes you make to the report apply only to the variable value.
- In the Properties pane, specify
the formatting for the language.
For example, to change
the language of a text string, double-click the Text property
and select the new string.
- Press Enter when you are done.
- Repeat steps 6 to 8 for all other languages specified for
the variable.
Tip: To view the report with
no variables applied, pause the pointer over the condition explorer
button and click (No variable) or triple-click
the Explorer bar.
Results
When you run the report, the report objects to which you applied
the variable are formatted according to the browser's language.
