Cognos ReportNetTM Installation and Configuration Guide

Chapter 4: Configuring ReportNet
Map Content Locales
Adding incomplete locales (languages) to the ReportNet environment does not guarantee that
your computer has a font that can display Web pages in your preferred languages. Ensure that
you install the appropriate language packs to support the character sets you use.
Steps
1. On the computer where you installed Content Manager, start Cognos Configuration.
2. From the Action menu, click Edit Global Configuration.
3. Click the Content Locales tab.
4. Click Add.
Tip: To remove support, select the check box next to the supported item and then click
Remove.
5. In the second column, type an appropriate value.
• To add language support for report data and metadata, type a partial local (language)
setting.
• To add support specific to a region, type a complete locale (language-region) setting.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for each additional locale that you want to support.
7. From the File menu, click Save.
Use the Content Locale Mappings table to map user locales to a complete (language-region) or
partial (language) locale. You can also map a user’s preferred language to another language if
content is not available in the user’s preferred language.
For example, if a report is not available in a preferred language, for example Vietnamese, but is
available in French and German, you can use the Content Mappings table to map the preferred
language (Vietnamese) to another language (French or German). This way, you see the report
in the mapped language.
By default, the Content Locale Mappings table includes locales that do not contain the region.
This allows you to use only the language portion of the locale when you specify locale settings
and ensures that you always see the correct information. For example, in a multilingual
database, data is usually available in different languages, such as French (fr), Spanish (es) and
English (en), rather than being available in different locales, such as English Canada (en-ca),
English United States (en-us), or French France (fr-fr).
The follow examples shows the method that ReportNet uses to determine which report the user
sees if the multiple language versions are available.
Example 1
A report is available in Content Manager in two locales, such as en-us (English-United States)
and fr-fr (French-France), but the user locale is set to fr-ca (French-Canadian). ReportNet uses
the locale mapping to determine which report the user sees.
First, ReportNet checks to see if the report is available in Content Manager in the user’s locale.
If it is not available in the user’s locale, ReportNet maps the user’s locale to a normalized locale
configured on the Content Locale Mapping tab. Because the user’s locale is fr-ca, it is mapped
to fr. ReportNet uses the mapped value to see if the report is available in fr. In this case, the
report is available in en-us and fr-fr, not fr.
Next, ReportNet maps each of the available reports to a normalized locale. Therefore, en-us
becomes en and fr-fr becomes fr.
Because both report and the user locale maps to fr, the user having the user locale fr-ca will see
the report saved with the locale fr-fr.
Example 2
The user’s locale and the report locales all map to the same language. ReportNet chooses
which locale to use. For example, if a user’s locale is en-ca (English-Canada) and the reports
are available in en-us (English-United States) and en-gb (English-United Kingdom), ReportNet
maps each locale to en. The user will see the report in the locale setting that ReportNet
chooses.
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