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Adding Cultures after Go-Live
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone had experience adding cultures to an applicaiton after go-live. Considering this is a system wide change its difficult to test without applying across all applicat...
This is similar to an existing enhancement request PF-26868.
Unfortunately you can't add custom culture codes ( well, you can in the server config, but they won't actually appear in the application unless they are one of the standard culture codes as set my Microsoft )
If it is only a few variations of descriptions, then you could use some other "English" culture codes like en-AU, en-CA, en-CB, en-IE, en-NA, en-GB, en-ZA , and get your cube views to display the correct one depending on the entity.You could of course do something more custom, using XFBR/BRString in the :Name override in the Cube View Rows/Columns, but then this won't work so well if you are using member expansions like A#BS.Tree, A#PL.Descendants. A DynamicCalc on the V#Annotation (or other text-based view member) could also be used to show alternate descriptions based on some lookup logic, but will probably have a negative impact on performance.
Thank you ChrisLoran and JackLacava for the speedy replies. This is all very valuable information. The reason I was hoping to use cultures is to allow the descriptions of accounts to change depending on the specific entity group I'm looking at. For example, one group might have a single "Loan Payable" where another might have multiple therefor it would be named "Loans Payable". I was thinking culture would be a better use rather than recreating each of the cube views and manually renaming each row as this would lose the dynamic aspect of member expansion functions.
I guess my next question is, are there custom cultures where the only purpose it to leverage them in a cube view parameter to vary the account description. All of the users will be setup as English (United States).
Thank you,
Amar