language slicer in powerbi report

[vat2do]

Hi experts,

i want to add a slicer in powerbi report providing users an option to switch between english to arabic. Is there a way or functionality to get this done considering my actual report is in english (only visual titles, legends and axis titles are required to be change in arabic)

thanks in advance

[v-aatheeque]

Hi @vat2do 

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[cengizhanarslan]

Step 1) Enable the preview feature

Power BI Desktop → File → Options and settings → Options → Preview features → enable User-context-aware calculated columns.

Step 2) Create a translations table

Build a table with columns for each language: Title, Title_EN, Title_AR. Populate it with all your visual titles, axis labels, and legend labels in both languages.

Step 3) Create a user-context-aware calculated column

Display Title =
VAR _Culture = USERCULTURE ()
RETURN
SWITCH (
    _Culture,
    "ar-SA", Translations[Title_AR],
    "ar-AE", Translations[Title_AR],
    Translations[Title_EN]
)

 

Step 4) Use these columns as dynamic titles via fx

[grazitti_sapna · Accepted solution]

Hi @vat2do,

Yes, you can build an English ↔ Arabic toggle in Power BI, but there is NO native built-in language switcher (even up to April 2026). You must implement it using DAX + slicer + dynamic titles.

Create a language table as 

Language =
DATATABLE(
"Lang", STRING,
{
{"English"},
{"Arabic"}
}
)

Now create a translation table like below and then you can create measures on top of it 

Add dynamic measure like 

Bind this meaure with visual (Format → Title → fx → Field value) then select the measure Title_Sales

Now update your measures accorsingly to switch the language

Month_Label =
VAR Lang = SELECTEDVALUE(Language[Lang], "English")
RETURN
SWITCH(
Lang,
"Arabic", 'Date'[Month_Arabic],
'Date'[Month_English]
)

Also there is an update in Apr 2026 for Power BI, you can use CULTURE() function to change the language based on their locale, You can check fir this update and here you can read about culture() function.

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