Scope/Applicability/Assumptions
This documentation assumes that the Windchill Business Reporting (WBR) solution (i.e. Cognos) has been successfully installed and configured. The Windchill instance name is referred to as <WindchillInstanceName>. The Cognos root URL is referred to as <WBRHomeURL>. Typically, if the WBR solution is installed on <WBRHost>, then the <WBRHomeURL> would be http://<WBRHost>/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi. It is assumed that you can login to <WBRHomeURL> and you have sufficient Cognos privileges to view Windchill Data Source objects and create reports.
• Assume you have access to create files in the source directory associated with <MyPackage> in <WindchillHome>.
• Assume you have created an Info*Engine task <MyTask> in its associated sub-directory <MyTaskPackage> in <WindchillHome>.
• Assume you have created the ReportTemplate, <MyReportTemplate> in the Site context of <WindchillHome>.
• Assume you have created a Windchill Report object, <MyReport> in the Site context.
• Assume you have created a Cognos Report, <MyCognosReport> in the Windchill folder.
For WBR integration, you must also have access rights to update the reporting meta model.
This document describes procedures for using standard Java resource bundles to externalize text used in the WBR system. To support localized text, a language specific resource bundle must be created and the text translated to the appropriate language. It is assumed that you require support for more than one language and you have the ability to translate text to your supported languages.
The text elements that are referred to in this document consist of report names, parameters, and columns. The actual data displayed in WBR reports is returned from Data Sources. Localizing this data is not covered in this document.