Hello,
Can anyone recommend a way of having language independant reports in Crystal Reports. Has anyone any experience of storing texts and title strings in the database?
I have to write a report to be deployed in 4 languages and I would like to avoid having 4 copies of the same report.
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Yes I guess i could do that but it would mean I would have to edit the report to add a new language. I was thinking more along the lines that I would use SQL Commands...
select Text from Languages where textcode = 'title' and Language = {?Language}
Then i would only need to add the new language to the database...
I did something like this about 4 years ago.
I was opening the report to extract all the ITextObject and persist their name and value into a database. In that database, I was supporting English and French. At runtime, I was replacing the values of each ITextObject with the correct values according to the required language.
It was much the same thing as http://www.emoreau.com/Ent
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by: mlmccPosted on 2009-10-08 at 06:55:57ID: 25525395
Are the title strings variable in the report?
One way to do it is to use formulas like
If {?Language} = 'English' then
'Name'
Else if {?Language} = 'French' then
'Nom'
Else etc
For varying text you can do the same thing
If {?Language} = 'English' then
{EnglishColumn}
Else if {?Language} = 'French' then
{FrenchColumn}
Else etc
mlmcc