Localizing element names

You localize element names by creating a TurboIntegrator process that creates the Caption attribute for all elements of a specific dimension on your IBM® Cognos® TM1® server, then assigns Caption values for the element names you want to localize.

1. Create a new TurboIntegrator process.
2. On the Prolog tab, enter the following function:

   AttrInsert( '<dim_name>', '', 'Caption', 'S');

   This function creates the Caption attribute as a string attribute for the elements of the <dim_name> on your TM1 server. Alternatively, you can create the Caption attribute as an alias attribute type. The benefit of creating the Caption attribute as an alias is that an alias attribute value can be passed as an argument to other TM1 functions, while string attribute values cannot.

   To create Caption as an alias attribute, enter AttrInsert( '<dim_name>', '', 'Caption', 'A');

3. For each element name that you want to localize, insert an AttrPutS function for each language that you want to make available on your TM1 server.

   For example, if you want to localize the January element into French, German, and Portuguese, your process would include the following functions:

   AttrPutS('Janvier', 'Month', 'January', 'Caption', 'fr');
   AttrPutS('Januar', 'Month', 'January', 'Caption', 'de');
   AttrPutS('Janeiro', 'Month', 'January', 'Caption', 'pt'); 

4. Save and execute the TurboIntegrator process.