Hello Forum,

following problem:
We are using WebFocus 8 in different languages, German, English and French.
In our BI-Database a lot of fields has different values depends on the language.

Most of our users are Germans and they are using Info Assist, to create their own reports and make them available for their colleagues,
so they usually create a report within Info Assist in German.
Their user-defined conditions are the problem: They are setting for e. g. countryname EQ 'Deutschland' , 'Frankreich'.
If a other user runs this this report in English, he didn't get any result,
because of the conditions. In English the report need the countryname 'Germany' and 'France' to fulfill the condition.

Our current solutions:
Report Caster:
We have a .fex which is setting the language, added as a preprocessing skript to the task, that works.

Info Asssist :
a) If the user knows the problem, he add all possible values, in all languages to the condition, but often they forgot it.
b) With my access rights I added the 'SET LANG = GE' to the code, using the text-editor.
But:
1. This works only 1 time, if I'd changed and saved report with Info Assist, the code
will be thrown away and need to be added again.
2. This option (text-editor) is not available for our users.



Has someone any other idea to set the language within Info Assist?

Bernd

This message has been edited. Last edited by: btiedemann,

Hallo Bernd,

My German is a bit rusty and other want to read this too. So in English.

I don't know a solution in InfoAssist...

...but in general:
Why filter on names and not numbers or codes?
like 'DE' for Germany and 'FR' for France?

Greets,
Dave

Ideas:
1) Either create a User Profile for each user on the reporting server
2) If too many users, create a text file on the server with the smallest population, execute a focexec that reads in the file from site.wfs(Custom Settings in the Admin console) and set the language based on IBIMR_user
3) in site.wfs, based on IBIMR_user, set a global variable, &&USER_LANG, and set it.

Hello Dave,

you're right.
But our users are using the names in their operational system and
we are trying to be also user-friendly in our BI-System.

Have a nice day

Bernd

quote:

Originally posted by Dave:

Hallo Bernd,

My German is a bit rusty and other want to read this too. So in English.

I don't know a solution in InfoAssist...

...but in general:
Why filter on names and not numbers or codes?
like 'DE' for Germany and 'FR' for France?

Greets,
Dave

Hello Tom,

thank you for your ideas,
I'll try to check them in our context.

Have a nice day

Bernd

quote:

Originally posted by Tom Flynn:
Ideas:
1) Either create a User Profile for each user on the reporting server
2) If too many users, create a text file on the server with the smallest population, execute a focexec that reads in the file from site.wfs(Custom Settings in the Admin console) and set the language based on IBIMR_user
3) in site.wfs, based on IBIMR_user, set a global variable, &&USER_LANG, and set it.

We have checked the suggestions.

Our result:
We (IT-staff) wouldn't set the language by a skript for the user or his report.
Because, our users should be responsible for the content of their reports.
So, if there coming up problems in this case, we have improve our user training.

And within WebFocus Info Assist it's not possible to set a "default" language for a report.
We are not sure, if that is a good idea...
We think about this subject and perhaps we would dicuss it in our user group.

Thanks a lot for help

Regards

Bernd