Providing Metadata Internationalization

Metadata internationalization (MDI) displays translated object strings based on a user's locale and other language preferences in the software, for objects that are stored in the MicroStrategy metadata, such as metric names, report names, the Public Objects system folder, security role names, user group names, and so on. Metadata translation also includes embedded text strings (embedded in an object's definition), such as prompt instructions, aliased names (which can be used in attributes, metrics, and custom groups), consolidation element names, custom group element names, graph titles, and threshold text.

Metadata object translation does not include configuration objects (such as the user object), function names, data mart table names, and so on.

Begin metadata translation by enabling languages for your project's metadata objects; see Enabling and Disabling Metadata Languages. Then use the appropriate set of procedures below, depending on whether translations already exist for your project or you will be translating your project for the first time:

• Translating Your Project for the First Time
• Translating Already Translated Pre-9.x Projects