Specifying Time Zone Values

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. Localizing Oracle Business Intelligence 15-3 ■ Section 15.5, Localizing Metadata Names in the Repository ■ Section 15.6, Supporting Multilingual Data

15.2 Localizing Oracle BI Presentation Services

As the administrator, you perform various tasks to localize Oracle BI Presentation Services, as described in the following sections: ■ Section 15.2.1, Localizing the User Interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services ■ Section 15.2.2, Localizing Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Captions ■ Section 15.2.3, Tip for Arabic and Hebrew in Mozilla Firefox Browsers

15.2.1 Localizing the User Interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services

You can localize the user interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services, if your users speak languages other than English. Users can select a language on the sign-in page for Oracle BI EE, and many elements of the interface are automatically displayed in the appropriate language. After signing in, users can change the language setting on the Preferences tab of the My Account dialog. The users setting is stored in the WEBLANGUAGE session variable. For the Oracle BI Presentation Services user interface, WEBLANGUAGE is set when a user selects a language on the sign-in page. As the administrator, you perform various tasks to localize other elements of the user interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services, as described in the following sections: ■ Section 15.2.1.1, Understanding the Directory Structure for Localizing Presentation Services ■ Section 15.2.1.2, Localizing Messages for Users Preferred Currency ■ Section 15.2.1.3, Specifying the Default Language for the Sign-In Page ■ Section 15.2.1.4, Configuring the Languages and Locales for the Sign-In Page ■ Section 15.2.1.5, Specifying the Language in the URL

15.2.1.1 Understanding the Directory Structure for Localizing Presentation Services

Oracle BI EE is installed with many files that control elements in the user interface and messages. These files are installed in the messages and pages subdirectories of the ORACLE_HOME\bifoundation\web\MS-DOS directory. To localize these elements and messages, you copy those files to the l_xx subdirectories in the ORACLE_ INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_ obipsn\msgdb subdirectories, where xx indicates the language extension. After you have copied the files, you can modify their contents as appropriate for the language that corresponds to the subdirectory in which you have copied them. Note: For Oracle BI Applications, WEBLANGUAGE is set to the language of the users browser when a user logs in for the first time. For example, if a user with a browser language set to French logs in to Oracle BI Applications for the first time, then the value for WEBLANGUAGE is French, and the metadata is translated to French.