Translation Best Practice???????

Hello Gurus of HFM I am really stock with the translation. I have been reading all the post that I could find, but I am not sure of how to do things
Please help me out I am stock.
I want to make a fully automate translation. I do not want that the client have to input the translate equity.
One thing that I thought I could do it is to use the transperiodic function for the YTD equity. But know body have post of using this. I suppose that it is for performance issues. Anybody know if that it is right?
So for what I have been reading I have to use the Opening-Movement-Closing analysis.
My balance is upload every month YTD to costum 4 [none]
I will build an structure
Custom4
[None]
Closing
     - OpeningBalance ( hs.exp"A#all =A#all. c4#closing.P#last.Y#Prior")
     -Movement ( hs.exp"A#all = A#all. c4#[none].P#last.Y#Prior - A#all.c4#closing.P#last.Y#Prior")
The translation it could be as follow
I have to set the following exchange rate acount
Share_issues exchange rate will be - shareVCLO / shareVOPE
Retained Earnings           - RetainVLO / RetainVOPE
Results in the period          - ResultVLO / ResultVOPE
vCLO = HS.GetRate("A#ClosingRate")
vOPE = HS.GetRate("A#OpeningRate")
VAverage = HS.GetRate("A#AverageRate")
shareVCLO = HS.GetRate("A# shareVCLO")
shareVOPE = HS.GetRate("A# shareVOPE ")
RetainVCLO = HS.GetRate("A# RetainVCLO ")
RetainVOPE = HS.GetRate("A# RetainVOPE ")
ResultVCLO = HS.GetRate("A# ResultVCLO ")
ResultVOPE = HS.GetRate("A#ResultVOPE ")
Asset and Liabilities at close rate vCLo
Income and expenses at average transperiodic VAverage.
Equity will be at historical rate. Each line of the statement will have a different exchange rate , store in a different account. and we will have an opening and a closing rate for each line, that we should to calculate at the last month of the year. And copy as in the opening exchange rate.
The movement will be translate depending of the type of account, I will set the type in the uda2, and made a memberlist , BalanceAccount, Equity, IncomeExpense
     AccList= Hs.Account.List("","BalanceAccount ")
     For each Acc in AccList
          HS.Trans "A#"& Acc&".C3#Movement","A#"& Acc&".C3#Movement", vCLO, ""
     Next
     AccList= Hs.Account.List("",", IncomeExpense")
     For each Acc in AccList
          HS.TransPeriodic "A#"& Acc&".C4# Movement ","A# "& Acc&".C4#Movement ",tmpAverageRate, ""
     Next
For the equity I will have to translate the movements as follow
AccList= Hs.Account.List("","CuentasPatrimonio")
     For each Acc in AccList
          HS.TransPeriodic "A#"& Acc&".C4#Movement ","A#"& Acc&".C4#Movement ",tmpClosingRate, ""
     Next
And the opening with last year closing rate.
To calculate the closing rate for each line of the equity I will do as follow
If Hs.Period.Number = 12 then
hs.exp " A#shareVCLO = A#Share_issues .v#USS /A#Share_issues .v#<Entity Currency>
end if
And then I will copy last year closing rate to the month of the point of view, so every month it will convert the opening balance at that rate
Has.exp "A#shareVOPE= A#shareVCLO.P#last.Y#prior"
I think this is very complicate. If any body could help me out tell me if there is an easier way or if they already have try this way and did not work out.
Please I need opinions
sofia
Edited by: Sofia on 12/10/2011 06:09 PM

I would setup a catch-all scenario with a translation to a CTIRP that would forward to VM and hit the Call handler you desire. For example if you had the DIDs 212-555-1000 thru 212-555-1299 i would first setup a non-DID CTI RP that matches your call handler dtmf (e.g. 7999 if you use 4 digit extensions). the CTI RP for 7999 would forward to VM and then the Call Handler with DTMF of 7999 would play your message that number is not in use.
Then setup a translation for 212-555-1[012]xx that translates to 7999.
This wildcard match would not route the call if there was a more specific match present within the Calling Search Space for the Gateway. So if extension 1050 was present it would route to that phone, but if extension 1051 was a terminated or unused number it would not be present and therefore the call would hit the translation and be routed to the "number not in use" call handler.
I think this is what you are after, a way to minimize the translations and not have to keep track of individual numbers. Of course modify the length of the translations if you are not routing based on 10 digits.

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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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