Crystal and Multilingual approach 1

[smsaji]

Hi All,

Have reports in place with data from a specific database, say ‘db’.

Now want to display the texts which appear only on the reports' header column (like ‘Name’, ‘, ‘Address’ etc) in different languages without disturbing the existing database. These are web reports displayed via Crystal Enterprise 10. Used Crystal reports 10 to design.

What would be a good approach ? Any links, ways of doing this appreciated..

thanks

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
If you mean static text then use a formula based on some input parameter that specifies the language to be used and then have it display the text in that language:

@SayHelloFormula

Select {?LangWanted}
   Case "French":
      "Bonjour"
   Case "Spanish" :
      "Hola"
   Case "Italian" :
      "Ciao"
  Default :
      "Hello";

Something like that...





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[smsaji]

I very much appreciate your respone.

Thatpeople use a resource file for multilingual, Is resource file something to be used with Crystal report.

There are some 50 reports. Should the 'Case formula' be applied to each static text in each report.

Working with multilingual at the crystal report, will it take effect at the browser level.

'Case formula' looks a good approach except it needs each report some time. If you think there's no other suggestion, then probably would go with it.

Expecting your suggestion...

thanks

 

[smsaji]

thank you very much, Turkbear. Tried and it works great. Was able use it with repository and use it with other report. Not not yet started real changes. Based on this, would be starting. Thanks for a good start!