Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services 2008 with MDX

6.7. Creating Translations

Translations facilitate the display of data and metadata in a regional language. Unlike translations for dimensions, where a column from the relational table is specified as containing the translation for members of an attribute hierarchy, cube translations are specified for the cube's metadata objects.

To create a new translation for the Adventure Works DW cube, do the following:

1. Click the Translations tab in the Cube Editor. Similar to the Perspective view, the left column shows the names of all the metadata objects in the default language. There is another column that indicates the object type, which indicates Caption because defining translations for a cube is only providing translated names for the metadata object names.

2. Right-click in the Translation window pane and select New Translation. You can also create a new translation using the New Translation button in the toolbar. In the Select Language dialog, select French (France) as the language and click OK. You now have a new column where you can provide the translations of each object (measure, display folders, dimension name, attribute names). Specify the translations in French as shown in Figure 6-29. (If you don't know French you can enter the translations in a language of your choice.) You can define translations for each metadata object in the cube such as measure names, measure group names, dimension names, perspective names, as well as calculated member names.

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