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jlajoie
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Multi-lingual reporting with locale type translation

Hello,

 

Many business intelligence reporting solutions allows the tool to use a concept of "locale" whereas depending on the choice of language of the user (locale), the description of a field will be returned in the language requested.  This is done at the time of connexion to a data warehouse to return results.

 

As an example, if we have english (en) and french (fr) and we have a field called gender.  We would have gender_en and gender_fr for english and french descriptions in our source database.  We would create a field called gender_desc with a condition of the type: if locale = en then return gender_en; else if locale = fr then return gender_fr.

 

We are looking at connecting directly to an Azure datawarehouse to get data for our Power BI reports (direct query); not the import function.

 

Has anybody worked on something similar?  I heard that Premium might have something; is that the case?  Should I check on Azure related forums for a datawarehouse or semantic related approach?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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V-lianl-msft
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Hi @jlajoie ,

 

You can refer to this sample, which has a document describing the detailed steps:

https://github.com/PowerBiDevCamp/Multilanguage-Reports 

 

Best Regards,
Liang
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jlajoie
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Thanks Liang.

 

Thank you for this very comprehensive reference.  When I will have had the chance to go through everything I will come back to comment.

V-lianl-msft
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Hi @jlajoie ,

 

You can refer to this sample, which has a document describing the detailed steps:

https://github.com/PowerBiDevCamp/Multilanguage-Reports 

 

Best Regards,
Liang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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