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Impactful Individual
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Auto detect user language

Hello,

 

Is there a way to detect a user language?

In DAX, one may use USERNAME() to get the user name, is there anything equivalent (in DAX, M, or elsewhere) to get the user's language?

 

Thanks for helping!

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TomMartens
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Hey,

 

unfortunately this is not possible using DAX or M.

 

Maybe using python as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3425294/how-to-detect-the-os-default-language-in-python can solve your issue.

 

But, you have to check if this still will also work if the report gets published to the service.

 

Regards,

Tom



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@TomMartens 

Thanks for helping!

I'm more familiar with R...

 

Anyway, I find it interesting to read on MS documentation about the USERCULTURE() function here.

Although it doesn't exist on my Power BI Desktop.

 

Is there a trick or a workaround or something?

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