[RS] Localizing text items in report studio

[darkness]

I'd like to open a discussion on the best practices and strategies for localizing text items in Report Studio in an OEM environment.  I am currently developing many Report Studio reports with text items in English-Zimbabwe, which will later be translated by a translation service into many other languages.  It has been suggested to build a custom utility to extract a list of text items to be sent to the translation service and then use the same utility to put the translated strings back into the report.

Has anyone done this before or thinking about doing it?

Thanks.

[sir_jeroen]

You can do this with the SDK. With the FM SDK you can create script to add names/descriptions/screentips etc. for each localized item. Using bmtscriptplayer in c8/bin dir you can run this script. I'm currently using this option in Combination with MS Access. In Access all translations for screentips, names and descriptions are stored and maintained and this is converted to a FM Script and ran using BMTScriptPlayer (you could use the FM scriptplayer but BMTscriptPlayer is much faster)