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Hi all,
The background to the question is this project, where there is a single language installation of EBS, but invoices need to be sent out in 20+ languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Russian. The invoices would often be printed in batches. Often a batch would include invoices in several languages. The printing steps from the user point of view, would need to be as simple as possible.
The data will be available in the respective languages, but how to manage the templates? Can the template selection be automated, so that the template is selected according to some specific value in the database?
I would be grateful for any information regarding this, for instance if there is any BI Publisher version that supports this. There are competing solutions too, and we are verifying whether BI Publisher would make a good choice in this setting. Thanks in advance!
Best Regards, Matilda Smeds

I'm not sure if I'm understanding garths comments correctly :-)
I'm on the fence about writing if statements for multiple layouts because there will be logic that is common for each country but it will be duplicated many times (long-term harder to support, short-term really fast dev)....
I have done an international implementation for customer facing documents myself and would recommend that you follow a similar methodology as suggested by garth but use imports for the templates (make multiple templates not the opposite).
I would suggest that you look at the Blanket Sales Agreement as an example on how to do this. There is no reason to create a massive template that repeats the same logic.
Sample Call:
<?if:SEND_COUNTRY='US'?>
<?import:xdo://ONT.ONTBSAERTF.en.00/?>
<?end if?>
Modularity will be key so I would suggest you also use call-template and call-inline-template tags as well. You will find that each country will have wild and erroneous nuisances that you will have to code for and that's why I'm suggesting you use this strategy. Conceptually, think about your templates like a class and java extending another class. Setup the inheritence correctly your life will be much easier. Make sense?
Good luck with the invoices.
Ike Wiggins
http://bipublisher.blogspot.com

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