How does internationalization work in MicroStrategy 9?
Internationalization is an out-of-the-box capability in MicroStrategy 9, and can be applied to the metadata, as well as the actual data within your organizations data sources. Metadata objects such as reports, attributes, and metrics can be translated into different languages manually through the Desktop interface or in bulk by extracting them from the metadata into an external database and re-importing them back. This bulk translation can be performed using the Repository Translation Wizard, which is included with MicroStrategy Object Manager. Data can be internationalized by adding new columns to lookup tables or creating new tables that store internationalized data. Attributes can be simply modified to point to the new tables/columns. Administrators can choose to apply a number of different languages to the project and customize it to the preference of the user. For example, a user from France may see the project in French but a user in Germany may see the same project in German. Ad
