Learn About the Translation Process

You can have metadata (descriptions and other text that you enter) for stories, analytic application, models, public dimensions, catalog content, and SAP Analytics Hub content, translated to different languages.

For example, you may have stories that have descriptions in a default language, but you'd like to have those descriptions translated to other languages so that your stories can be understood by more users.

If your organization is large, or if you're translating a lot of text in bulk, you can have it translated into multiple target languages using third-party translation tools. But if you're a smaller organization with minimal translation needs, you can have those descriptions translated using the Translation dashboard. You can use the dashboard to review translations, and edit or add translations from scratch for some or all languages.

You'll need to be assigned to an administrator or translator role to use this translation feature.

You can refer to the list below for the supported languages in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Supported User Interface Languages

Elements of the user interface, such as menus, buttons, messages, and options available under  (Main Menu), can appear in one of the supported languages:

Bulgarian (bg-BG)

Catalan (ca-ES)

Chinese (Simplified) (zh-CN)

Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW)

Croatian (hr-HR)

Czech (cs-CZ)

Danish (da-DK)

Dutch (nl-NL)

English (en-GB)

English (en-US)

Estonian (et-EE)

Finnish (fi-FI)

French (fr-FR)

French (Canada) (fr-CA)

German (de-DE)

German (Switzerland) (de-CH)

Greek (el-GR)

Hindi (hi-IN)

Hungarian (hu-HU)

Indonesian (id-ID)

Italian (it-IT)

Japanese (ja-JP)

Korean (ko-KR)

Latvian (lv-LV)

Lithuanian (lt-LT)

Malay (ms-MY)

Norwegian (no-NO)

Polish (pl-PL)

Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-BR)

Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT)

Romanian (ro-RO)

Russian (ru-RU)

Serbian (sr-RS)

Slovak (sk-SK)

Slovenian (sl-SI)

Spanish (es-ES)

Spanish (Mexico) (es-MX)

Swedish (sv-SE)

Thai (th-TH)

Turkish (tr-TR)

Ukrainian (uk-UA)

Vietnamese (vi-VN)

Welsh (cy-GB)

You can set the language for the user interface elements by changing the Language setting in your user preferences. For more information, see Edit Your Profile.

Supported Data Access Languages

The data access language includes text provided by users in SAP Analytics Cloud; for example, the text that is added in the story view, or data such as dimensions and measures. You can set the data access language by changing the Data Access Language setting in your user preferences. For more information, see Edit Your Profile. You can change the language to one of the following supported data access languages.

Afrikaans (af)

Arabic (ar)

Bulgarian (bg)

Catalan (ca)

Chinese (Simplified) (zh)

Chinese (Traditional) (zf)

Croatian (hr)

Czech (cs)

Danish (da)

Dutch (nl)

English (UK) (en_UK)

English (US) (en)

Estonian (et)

Farsi (fa)

Finnish (fi)

French (France) (fr)

French (Canada) (fr_CA)

German (de)

Greek (el)

Hebrew (he)

Hindi (hi)

Hungarian (hu)

Icelandic (is)

Indonesian (id)

Italian (it)

Japanese (ja)

Kazakh (kk)

Korean (ko)

Latvian (lv)

Lithuanian (lt)

Malay (ms)

Norwegian (no)

Polish (pl)

Portuguese (Brazil) (pt)

Portuguese (Portugal) (pt_PT)

Romanian (ro)

Russian (ru)

Serbian (sr)

Serbo-Croatian (sh)

Slovak (sk)

Slovenian (sl)

Spanish (Spain) (es)

Spanish (Mexico) (es_MX)

Swedish (sv)

Thai (th)

Turkish (tr)

Ukrainian (uk)

Vietnamese (vi)

Welsh (cy)

Supported Mobile Application Languages

In the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile application, the following languages are supported.

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English (US)

Finnish

French (France)

German (Germany)

Greek

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian

Russian

Slovak

Spanish (Spain)

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Note

The following languages are not supported in the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile application: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Slovenian, Serbian (Serbia), Swedish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

Translator Role

You can translate the user-defined fields in a story, analytic application, model, public dimension object, or SAP Analytics Hub assets and layout. You can create, read, and delete translations, and view the translatable or translated content of all the objects listed in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The Translator privileges are:

Create: Lets you upload translations using XLIFF files, or review options in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Read: Lets you download the source XLIFF files from the Translation dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Delete: Lets you delete the translations in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Translation Dashboard

In the Translation dashboard, you can view the story, analytic application, model, public dimension objects, and SAP Analytics Hub assets marked for translation, and manage the translations.

From the side navigation, choose Translation to view the following statuses:

Translated
Not Translated
Partially Translated

The Translation dashboard lets you perform the following tasks:

View all the story, analytic application, model, and public dimension objects requested for translation.
View the location of the object.
Export XLIFF files (all strings or outstanding strings) for one or more objects.
Import XLIFF files for one object at a time.
View the translation status (as the object is updated).
View the translation status for each of the translated languages.
Edit the translated content.
Delete translated content.
Sort the different columns.
Filter the different types of objects.
Include or exclude columns in the Translation dashboard.
Search for objects by name, description, type, creator, source language, requested on, changed on, and status.

The Import and Export options let you upload and download the translated and the translatable content in XLIFF format.

The Translation dashboard displays the following fields.

Item	Description
	Refreshes the list of story, model, and public dimension objects.
	Edits translations for the selected objects.
	Deletes translations for the selected objects.
	Imports the translated XLIFF files and exports translatable (source) XLIFF files
	Specifies the fields to display for the dashboard objects: path of the object description of the object type of the object name of the object's creator source language from which the object has been created Requested On: date when the translation was requested Changed Ondate when the translation strings have been updated Status: status of the translation: Translated: Once the object is translated completely, its status is shown as Translated. Not Translated: For a new object, or for objects whose translation is deleted completely, the status is shown as Not Translated. Partially Translated: When the strings in an object are not translated completely, its status is shown as Partially Translated. Once it is translated again, the status changes back to Translated. Note These status buttons are clickable and you can view the status of translations uploaded for each language.
	Filters translated, not translated, and expired objects.
	Searches objects based on Name, Description, Translated by, Translated Language, Requested on, Changed on, Status, and Owner.
	Opens the Advanced Settings dialog. You can enable or disable the Hide HTML Tags in Translation Page toggle. If you want to view the texts for translation formatted in the same way as they appear in all your stories, without the HTML tags, turn ON this toggle. If you want to view the HTML tag details, turn OFF this toggle. Note This is a one-time setting for every user.