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15 Localizing Oracle Business Intelligence 15-1 15 Localizing Oracle Business Intelligence Users can easily and dynamically change their language and locale preferences. When users select a language, they see many elements in that language. These elements include user interface components, metadata, messages, and Help files. This chapter provides information about how to configure for deployment in one or more language environments other than English. This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 15.1, What Is Localization? ■ Section 15.2, Localizing Oracle BI Presentation Services ■ Section 15.3, Setting the Current Locale in Catalog Manager ■ Section 15.4, Setting the Current Locale in the Oracle BI Server ■ Section 15.5, Localizing Metadata Names in the Repository ■ Section 15.6, Supporting Multilingual Data 15.1 What Is Localization? In this chapter, localization refers to the process of adapting the Oracle Business Intelligence deployment to a particular language. If your users speak languages other than English, then use the information in this chapter to adapt your deployment to support multiple languages. For information about supported languages, see Section 1.8, System Requirements and Certification. 15.1.1 What Components Are Translated? The following list outlines which components of Oracle Business Intelligence are translated into languages other than English: ■ Installer ■ Web user interface ■ Job Manager interface of the Oracle BI Scheduler ■ Catalog Manager ■ Oracle BI Presentation Services messages: – error – warning 15-2 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition – information ■ Oracle BI Server functions: – DayName – MonthName ■ Oracle BI Server and Oracle BI Scheduler messages: – error – warning – information ■ Log files: – nqserver.log for Oracle BI Server – nqquery.log for Oracle BI Server – If Clustering is enabled, nQCluster.log for Oracle BI Server Cluster ■ Metadata: – Dashboards and analyses Oracle BI Presentation Catalog – Presentation table and column names .rpd file ■ Oracle BI Administration Tool interface ■ ODBC setup The following list outlines which components of Oracle Business Intelligence are not localized: ■ ODBC client tools: – nqcmd UNIX – nQCmd.exe Windows – nQClient.exe Windows Numerous Oracle Fusion Middleware components, such as Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console and Fusion Middleware Control, are translated. See Oracle Fusion Middleware documentation for information.

15.1.2 Tasks for Localizing Oracle Business Intelligence Components

As the administrator, you perform various tasks to localize the components of Oracle Business Intelligence, as described in the following sections: ■ Section 15.2, Localizing Oracle BI Presentation Services ■ Section 15.4, Setting the Current Locale in the Oracle BI Server Note: If a query is issued using the DayName or MonthName function, but the function is not shipped to a back-end database, then the day or month name is returned in the localized language but the column name remains in English or might be affected by other localization controls. As an example of this situation, if the LOCALE parameter is set for German, the MonthName query returns the string Mai but the column header remains Name of Month.