About Data Internationalization

Data internationalization allows a single report definition to contain different attribute forms for different languages available to users, based on a user's locale and other language preferences in MicroStrategy. For example, you want to display a product name stored in your data warehouse to two different users, one who reads English and one who reads French. Both users execute and view the same product report. You can use data internationalization to configure MicroStrategy to automatically display A Tale of Two Cities to the English user and Un Conte de Deux Villes to the French user.

Data internationalization (or DI) involves configuring your data warehouse so that tables and other structures allow MicroStrategy to access data in the appropriate language for the user requesting the report. If you use multiple warehouses to store translated data, DI involves connecting MicroStrategy to the appropriate warehouses.

Depending on the data internationalization model you choose, which is based on the structure of your translation storage environment (as described above), you may only be able to translate the DESC (description) form.

See Providing Data Internationalization for more information.