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jcapezzuto
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7 years ago
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Setting language and locale for embedded report

We are using the Javascript API to embed reports in our web app.  We need to control the report language and locale settings for our users based on settings in our app.  In the example below, we are ...
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    jcapezzuto
    7 years ago

    We were able to make this work by directly adding &language and &formatlocale parameters to the embed URL.  

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jcapezzuto
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6 years ago

Hi Brian,

Yes this is definitely possible but you will need multiple versions of your report (one for each language).  Each report can be created to use the appropriate data translations from SSAS, but the dimension and measure names have to be set directly in the report for each language so they appear correctly in column headings etc. 

 

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

 

Thanks,

Jon

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Hi jon many thanks for your response.

 

But shouldn’t you be able  in SSAS to let’s say create a new measure called “VAR, English name” and then in your translation file (json file) translate this to e.g. “VAR, another language”. If you then in you embedded can pass some sort of language parameter, so that the embedded report then either will show you the “VAR, English name” or “VAR, another language” depending of the value in the parameter?
But anyway, we have done some testing in the PBI service, and it doesn’t seem to handle different language correctly.

 

Again thanks for your answer.

Best regards

Brian