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 by a common translation service.
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.
All you need to do is flag content as being ready for translation, and then over the next one to three days, the metadata descriptions are translated by a common translation service, and sent back to SAP Analytics Cloud.
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 Product Languages
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), English (United Kingdom) Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, German (Swiss), Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico) Swedish (Sweden), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh (United Kingdom)
Supported Data Access Languages
The data access language includes text provided by users inSAP Analytics Cloud; for example, the text that is added in the story view, or data such as dimensions and measures. To set the product language, click the icon and select Profile Settings. Edit the User Preferences, and change the Data Access Language setting. The following are the supported data access languages.
Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French (France), French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh.
Supported Mobile Application Languages
In the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile application, the following languages are supported.
Bulgarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Malaysian, Slovenian, Serbian (Serbia), and Vietnamese.
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
You can view the story, analytic application, model, public dimension objects, and SAP Analytics Hub assets marked for translation, and manage the translations in the Translation dashboard.
From the side navigation, choose 
Translation to view the following statuses:
- Translated
- Not Translated
- Partially Translated
- 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 |
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| Name | Specifies the name of the story, model, or public dimension object |
| Description | Specifies the description of the object |
| Type | Specifies the type of the object |
| Creator | Specifies the object creator's name |
| Source Language | Specifies the source language from which the object is created |
| Requested On | Specifies when the translation was requested |
| Changed On | Specifies if the strings or the translations for strings were updated |
| Status | Specifies the status of translation:
Note These status buttons are clickable and you can view the status of translations uploaded for each
language. |
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Refreshes the list of story, model, and public dimension objects |
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Deletes translations for the selected objects |
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Filters translated, not translated, and expired objects |
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Imports the translated XLIFF files and exports translatable (source) XLIFF files |
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Searches objects based on Name, Description, Translated by, Translated Language, Requested on, Changed on, Status, and Owner |