Creating a Report Language File for a New Language

You can translate reports and other text items used to generate PowerDesigner reports into a new language.

1. Select Tools > Resources > Report Languages to open the List of Report Languages, which shows all the available report language resource files.
2. Click the New tool, and enter the name that you want to appear in the List of Report Languages.
3. [optional] Select a report language in the Copy from list.
4. Click OK to open the new file in the Report Language Editor.
5. Open the Values Mapping category, and translate each of the keyword values (see Values Mapping Category).
6. Open the Profile > Linguistic Variables category to create the grammar rules necessary for the correct evaluation of the report item templates (see Profile/Linguistic Variables Category).
7. Open the Profile > Report Items Templates category, and translate the various templates (see Profile/Report Item Templates Category). As you translate, you may discover additional linguistic variables that you should create.
8. Click the All Classes tab to view a sortable list of all the metaclasses available in the PowerDesigner metamodel (see All Classes Tab). Translate each of the metaclass names.
9. Click the All Attributes and Collections tab to view a sortable list of all the attributes and collections available in the PowerDesigner metamodel (see All Attributes and Collections Tab). Translate each of the attribute and collection names.
10. Click the All Report Titles tab, and review the automatically generated report titles (see All Report Titles Tab). This tab may take several seconds to display.
11. Click the Save tool, and click OK to close the Report Language Editor. The report language file is now ready to be attached to a report.