How to: Add or Delete Dimension Metadata Translations in Dimension Designer

You can add translations to a dimension by using the Translations tab in Dimension Designer, which is accessed from Business Intelligence Development Studio.

To add translations to a dimension

  1. Open the dimension to which you want to add translations. The Dimension Builder view opens by default.

  2. Either click New translation on the toolbar, or right-click anywhere in the translations grid on the Translations tab, and then click New Translation.

  3. In Language Selection, click the language for the new translation, and then click OK. A new column for the chosen language will appear in the translations grid.

  4. In the new column, type the appropriate translations or attribute data translations.

See Also

Concepts

International Considerations for Analysis Services

Other Resources

Defining and Browsing Translations
Working with Database Dimension Basics How-to Topics

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