Multi-Language support in Discoverer? Best-Practice?

Dear experts,
wondering if there is a best practice to provide workbooks/EULs in different languages? Actually we use Business Objects (BO 5.xx) but want to switch to Discoverer. As BO also does not support multiple languages we use as a workaround the VB-interface to translate the text and labels in our reports and universes (EUL) regarding to particular label numbers. Is there some kind of similar interface for browsing/changing Discoverer EULs?
Do you think the following could work:
In the "genuine" EUL you specify a unique number to any attibute of an element and after each you start a kind of translation procedure generating two new EULs (e.g. EUL_EN (english) and EUL_DE (german)) with translated labels (Name and Headline attibute of an element).
As far as I understood the structure of Discoverer's EULs, all attibutes are stored in the database, so it should be possible to find out, which holds the "Name" and which the "Headline" attribute...
Got what I want?
At least I need to understand the data model of the EULs...
Regards,
Ralf

Hi Ralf,
There are 2 types of translations you might want to do: the names and descriptions of your Business Areas,Folders and Items etc in the EUL and the labels and titles in the workbooks.
To translate the Descriptions in the EUL the easiest approach will be to export the EUL into an .eex file or each component into a .eex file using a script. These .eex files are in fact XML files and the names and descriptions are attributes of the XML BA, folder and item elements. You can then translate these and then import the eex file(s) into a new EUL for the new language.
Another approach to consider (especially if you are using Discoverer with Oracle Applications and your translations are already held in the database) is to create a language specific EUL. You will need to use the command line to do this and specify the EUL language when you create the EUL. Then import your EUL into the new language specific EUL and use the folder refresh to pick up the translated text from the database. You will probably need to write a EUL_TRIGGER$REFRESH_NEW_COLUMN to do this. If you are using the Business Intelligence views some translations may be done for you when you refresh. I think taking this approach will be a challenge.
I am afraid there is no easy way to translate the labels and titles in the workbooks. You will have to manually open each workbook in the new EUL, translate the text and save it.
Hope that helps,
Rod West

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