Multi Language Dashboards

Question

Hi,
I am trying to create a dashboard which supports multiple languages. I am only to trying to change the labels to the appropriate language.
For example, on my dashboard I have a label called "Year", based on the users InfoView locale I would like to change this to Spanish of "Ano".
My thought's so far, I have a XML file stored centrally (as I can not use Translations Manager) which has all my translations and can read that into Xcelsius, but what I can not do is get the InfoView locale of the users.
Any thoughts on how I can achieve the objective?
Thanks
We are Xcelsius 2008

Answer 1

I am not at my pc so can't do a quick example, but it is possible to do this I think. Here is how I see it:
1) In excel, create a cell that we can call the "switching" cell.
2) In xcelsius, create a component (use any that allows you to pick from a list) for the language choice and feed it the list of available languages. Then make sure that the choice being made on that list gets written to the switching cell in excell.
3) Instead of linking all the titles and labels to a cell in excel that actually contains the text before your start, create a column or row of blank cells. Say that is in column E.
4) In subsequent columns, add all the labels and totles required, using one column for each language.
5) Use the results from the switching cell to look-up the relevant language into column E (alternatively, you could use an offset).
6) All your references to totles and labels in xcelsius are based on a cell in column e. As the language is selected, column E picks up data from columns F to whatever, using the switching cell as its pointer.
There are several ways to do this. The above is high level and doesn't give you the whole worked out example, but some kind soul may be able to do a quick mock-up for you if you don't know how to set up the excel logic at all (though there are lots of examples around).
Sorry this is not more detailed: I won't have access to xcelsius until Monday.
EDIT
I did not make it explicit but I was thinking of European languages. If you needed support for Asian languages, for example, you would need to ensure that the full character sets were available in both excel and xcelsius and probably to embed the fonts, which in my experience results in significant display issues.
Edited by: Cricri on May 29, 2009 2:11 PM