About Metadata Internationalization

Metadata internationalization displays translated object strings based on a user's locale and other language preferences in MicroStrategy, for objects that are stored in the MicroStrategy metadata, such as metric names and report names. For example, you have two metrics stored in your metadata repository, named Cost and Profit. These metadata objects will appear on reports accessed by both English and Italian users. You can use metadata internationalization to configure MicroStrategy to automatically display Cost and Profit to the English users and Metrica costo and Metric proffito to the Italian users.

Metadata internationalization (or MDI) involves exporting object strings to a location where they can be translated, performing the linguistic translation, and importing the newly translated object strings back into the metadata repository. You can also translate individual objects one at a time, using the Object Translation Editor.

For steps to perform these procedures, see Providing Metadata Internationalization.