DESCRIPTION 📄
Power BI has a history which has made it challenging to build reports that support multiple languages. Fortunately, enhancements to Power BI over the last year have reduced this challenge making it more attainable to Power BI content creators. As an example, Power BI added support for the USERCULTURE function which provides the ability to write measures which implement report label translations dynamically. Power BI enhancements to the report designer now provide more flexibility to bind measures with dynamic translations to visuals and shapes so they can be surfaced on report pages. Furthermore, the recent introduction of Field Parameters in Power BI now offers a far more elegant and efficient strategy to implement data translations.
In this Livestream session, Ted Pattison will discuss how to get started with multi-language report development. Attendees will learn about the three different types of translations involved with multi-language report development as well as the techniques used to implement them. Ted will demonstrate using the Translations Builder utility to automate repetitive localization tasks that would take forever to complete manually. This session will provide content creators using Power BI Desktop with a better understanding of how all the pieces fit together and with a path forward for building multi-language reports in Power BI using a strategy that is reliable, predictable and scalable.
GUEST BIO 👤
Ted Pattison worked as an independent trainer and software developer whose community efforts earned him the Microsoft MVP award for 15 years in a row. Ted joined the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBICAT) at Microsoft in 2020 where he provides guidance to enterprise customers and ISVs in several areas including developing with Power BI embedding, programming with the Power BI APIs and building multi-language reports.
Ted is also the creator of Power BI Dev Camp (https://www.powerbidevcamp.net) which provides a monthly webinar geared toward professional software developers working with Power BI, Fabric and the Microsoft Data Platform.
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Building Multi-language Reports (Guidance Doc)
Building Multi-language Reports (Hands-on Lab)
Building Multi-language Reports (YouTube Video)
Building Multi-language Reports - Part 2 (YouTube Video)
Translations Builder Utility on GitHub
Live Sample of Multi-language Report
