Hi Team,
We have a requirement to show the dashboard visual titles, filter names, insights content to the user in selected language irrespective of widget content, is there any way to do so?
Hi,
there is a blogpost from Francesco Marelli about multilingual dashboards.
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I had read this one, in this we are translating data not the visual titles and filter names, we only the translated titles,filter names,insight content if it has static text in en,the data from data set will be in en.
My requirement is similar to this post
I have a requirement to translate our Quicksight dashboard.
We are currently configured a âlanguageâ parameter which contains the language user desired to see the dashboard in. We are using this parameter to filter the data in our data set which has rows for each available language. This works well for the data display in our visuals on the dashboard.
The problem I have is regarding the titles and labels on the visuals. Iâd like these to be updated depending on the language parameter as well. Iâve found you can template the title, i.e., <<$language>> to include the parameter, but I canât find anyway to âlookupâ the desired value using the parameter as a key.
Iâve looked at calculated fields which can be determined using parameters, but unfortunately you canât template titles/labels with them.
The only option Iâve considered at this point is having to duplicate the dashboard in every single language supported and then routing the users to the correct dashboard.
Does anyone else have any other ideas?
Hi @Schruti -
I would try a couple of things. Not sure which one is better for your use case as it depends on how easy/hard it is for you to modify the data set and redesign the visuals:
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restructure your data set to show different COLUMNS per language, instead of different rows. The column names should be the ones you want to display in the visuals. Then create a Parameter that uses Dynamic Default Values. More info here:
Creating parameter defaults in Amazon QuickSight - Amazon QuickSight
It might work with a little bit of creativity -
Rearrange your dataset to show different languages as Columns (not Rows).
a. Each Column should have the desired name (for French, the column name should be in French). For example, if you have Sales Revenue as a column, create another column for French "Chiffre dâAffairesââŚ
a. Create a Parameter SelectLanguage as string with Default value of âSales Revenueâ. This is the name of the column with English title for English readers
b. Create a calculated field that references the parameter.
Calculated Field:
ifelse(
Parameter = âEnglishâ, âSales Revenueâ,
Parameter = âFrenchâ, âChiffre dâAffairesâ,
Parameter = âHinduâ, etc.
NULL)
c. Add the parameter to visual and edit it to add a dropdown where you add additional values: English, French, Hindu etc.
d. add the calculated field to the visual as a column
e. edit the visual and go to Group-by Column Names
f. where you see the Calculated Fieldâs name click on the 3 hotizontal lines and make sure you select the parameter as the value for that field
Let us know if any of this suggestions work for you,
GL
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@gillepa Thank you for your help.
Iâm facing the same problem as the original questioner and please let me confirm one point about the above answer.
In the Calculated Field section of 2.b, if the parameter set in 2.a defaults to âSales Revenueâ, then the Calculated Field should be as follows, is this correct?
Calculated Field:
ifelse(
SelectLanguage = âSales Revenueâ, âSales Revenueâ,
SelectLanguage= âChiffre dâAffairesâ, âChiffre dâAffairesâ,
etc.
NULL)
Is it correct that the SelectLanguage should be header name[âSales Revenueâ, âChiffre dâAffairesâ,âŚ] instead of language name [âEnglishâ, âFrenchâ, âŚ]?
Hi @bani24884 -
The parameter SelectLanguage is just that, a parameter, which means that you can assign any string values to it. To make it user-friendly, I would use âEnglishâ, âFrenchâ, âRomanianâ (or any other language) as values for the string parameter âSelectlanguageâ.
So when someone selects âEnglishâ as the parameter value, the calculated field returns the (revenue) column that has the header in English (âSales Revenueâ). When the user selects âRomanianâ as the parameter value, the calculated field returns the (revenue) column that has the header in Romanian (âVenit de vanzariâ).
So the calculated field should be:
Calculated Field:
ifelse(
SelectLanguage = âEnglishâ, âSales Revenueâ,
SelectLanguage= âFrenchâ, âChiffre dâAffairesâ,
SelectLanguage= âRomanianâ, âVenit de Vanzariâ,
etc.
NULL)
Of course, this only works if you already have the columns âSales Revenueâ, âChiffre dâAffairesâ, âVenit de VanzariââŚ
in your dataset.
Hope it helps,
GL
@gillepa Can we translate the chart title, subtitle, legend and set it based on the selected language? (provided the selected language is a form control)
Have you found a solution to your problem? I am currently facing a similar issue where I need to translate various text elements such as Graph Title, Header Columns, Axis Title, and Legend Title. Is it possible to use parameters to translate these types of text?