Description

Checks which language is used for the current MDM session (that is, which language has been selected when connecting to the Data Manager), and returns the value of the expression corresponding to that language

Syntax

IF (LANGUAGE=lan1 THEN

   language_specific_expression1

ELSE IF (LANGUAGE=lan2 THEN

   language_specific_expression2

ELSE IF (LANGUAGE=lan3 THEN

   language_specific_expression3

ELSE

   otherwise_expression)))

●      lan1 is repository language 1

●      lan2 is repository language 2

●      lan3 is repository language 3

Example

IF(LANGUAGE=English [US] THEN FALSE ELSE TRUE)

   Logged language is English [US]          ® FALSE

   Logged language is German [DE]         ® TRUE

IF(LANGUAGE=German [DE], “German”, “English”)

   Logged language is English [US]          ® “English”

   Logged language is German [DE]         ® “German”

Note

You cannot manually type this function, you have to select it from the functions, otherwise MDM will return a syntax error message.

Calculated fields will loop through all languages in the repository and evaluate the expression for each language.