Translation for dynamic columns

Question

Hello,
I am new to BIP and I am researching if it's possible to support translation for the a column splitting(crosstab) report that the column heading is not known until the runtime? Fortunately, I can seed the translation for these column headings in a TL table but I just would not know which columns will be displayed and the sequence of these display columns until the runtime.
Thanks,
Calvin

Answer 1

Thank you very much for the reply but I am still a little unclear how to implement your suggested approaches.
1) pass the correct translations to the report as part of the data set
I intend to design 3 tables. Table 1 is the main one and Table 2 and 3 store the column headings and translation.
Table 1: REPORT_ROWS(REPORT_NAME, ROWNUM, VALUE1, VALUE2, VALUE3...VALUE10).
- REPORT_NAME + ROWNUM: PK columns
- VALUE1-10: Depending on REPORT_NAME, different columns will be populated.
Table 2: REPORT_FORMAT(REPORT_NAME, LABLE1, LABEL2,....LABEL10)
Table 3: REPORT_FORMAT_TL(REPORT_NAME, LANGUAGE, LABEL1, LABEL2,....,LABEL10)
I can get translations from Table3. But how do I get the labels displayed as column headings in the BIP?
Isn't the column headings in BIP defaulted the table column name of Table 1?
Should I change the design of these tables?
2) and 3) how to do I pick the right translation at the runtime in the dataset or in the table?
My understanding is the xliff file is based on strings on the report template. In this case, these strings are derived at the runtime.
Therefore, the xliff file approach is not applicable. Is this a right assumption?
Many thanks!
Calvin