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column dynamic language translation

Hi, we have the following dataset, in this dataset there are months in different languages, these should be translated into German if possible.     A quite simple implementation is possible...
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  • v-yingjl's avatar
    v-yingjl
    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    If you want to use DAX function to achieve it, you need to create a Table including different months from different regions, and a Germany month column like this:

    Then you can create a calculated column in the source table to 'translate' the month column:

    Germany month translation =
IF (
    'Table'[Month] IN DISTINCT ( 'Month'[Germany month] ),
    [Month],
    LOOKUPVALUE ( 'Month'[Germany month], 'Month'[Month], 'Table'[Month] )
)

    Attached a sample file in the below, hopes to help you.

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
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PhilipTreacy
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

You can use lookup values in a Record to do the translation in Power Query.  You could also use another table and do a join on the month name, but the lookup using a record I think would be easier.

 

 

let
    Months = [ 
                JANUARY = "Januar", 
                FEBRUARY = "Februar",
                MARCH = "März",
                APRIL = "April",
                MAY = "Mai",
                JUNE = "Juni",
                JULY = "Juli",
                AUGUST = "August",
                SEPTEMBER = "September",
                OCTOBER = "Oktober",
                NOVEMBER = "November",
                DECEMBER = "Dezember",

                JANUARI = "Januar", 
                FEBRUARI = "Februar",
                MAART = "März",
                // APRIL
                MEI = "Mai",
                JUNI = "Juni",
                JULI = "Juli",
                AUGUSTUS = "August",
                //SEPTEMBER
                OKTOBER = "Oktober"
                //NOVEMBER
                //DECEMBER
            ],
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8irNS1WK1QExcirBDMfS9NLiEjAzOLWgJDU3KbUIoiIxrzSxKBPMdktNKoJzfBMTiyAaHAuKMnMgYqlAuVgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Month = _t]),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "NewMonth", each Record.Field(Months, Text.Upper([Month])))
in
    #"Added Custom"

 

 

Where a month has already been listed in another language, I've left a commented out line (Apr, Sep, Nov and Dec in Dutch).

I'm using Text.Upper([Month]) to ensure the match is case insensitive.

Regards

Phil