Hi all,
is there any way to convert the language from English to spanish.if i have a report which displays the data in English,Now if i want to see the report in other language say "spanish"then whats the way to so,is there any documentation where i can look into....

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NLS or National Language Support

National Language Support for International Computing

And do a search on the forum it's a topic that has a fair bit of cover

Sounds like you want the data of the report in Spanish? WebFOCUS can't do that.

what will the NLS support do for WebFocus,if i cannot get the data in spanish....

Swati,

Do you want to translate DATA into spanish?

Swati, if you want eg. column titles translated then you can pick up the column text from a table with a language code and a column code. I've done this for a financial Group Consolidation system.

Håkan

Yes, you can have almost anything displayed in your language of choice. The webfocus strings are almost all translatable by means of setting the nls characteristics as indicated before.
Column names and titles of fields can be set in the required language by adding them to the master file - there are things in place to have multiple titles depending on the language set.
But what you can't do is translate the contents of the fields. That will just display as is - it's database controlled, not webfocus controlled.
What you can do is redesign your database, so that for every language you need to report in the fields are duplicated. But that would be a bit too much IMHO.

Hi Gamp,
What i am looking to get is to display the title's and the heading's and footings only in spanish,i dont want the contents of the fields in spanish as they are Database controlled so we cannot Modify in webfocus.

can you tell me,suppose i have a sample table ABC.mas then where i have to make the changes for the NLS parameters,to get the spanish display.

Swati,

You can do 1 of 4 things:
1. Have 2 copies of each focexec, one in English and one is Spanish (not recommended...)
2. Use &variables for each HEADING and FOOTING and Dialog Manager to choose the text according to one variable which defines the language. Use the MASTER file for TITLEs.
3. Use only &variables as above and put all the values in a database. You then load values into the variables at the beginning of your focexec.
4. We have done this and can provide the environment.

Take a look at this thread as well...

thanks Francis,will explore from the thread...

Hi guys,
where exactly i need to set in the master file regarding the NLS CHARACTERSTICS,so that i can have the spanish in the report.I am looking to change the tiles and Headings and footings for the reports which i have in english into spanish.
-->one more thing do i need to have the ADMIN Privilage for the NLS setting. as i have seen the manual and it shows to go to Admin console and enable the Dynamic Language Switch.........

Documentation, documentation, documentation!

Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language > Describing an Individual Field > Multilingual Metadata Take a look at "Specify Multilingual Metadata in a Master File" and "Activate the Use of a Language".

These topics are available via the provided link and also via Dev Studio Help.

Thank you francis.

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