Text Object for Multi-lingual Texts on Report Pages

In some cases, you may wish to provide additional information for the report viewers. If your report has just one language, you can enter the text directly onto the page by going to the Page Editor for the appropriate page and typing it into an empty table cell. However if the report is available in more than one language, you will probably want the text to be available in all the languages. In this case, you can use a Text Element. Here you can add texts in each of the languages specified for the report, and the viewer will see only the text in the language defined for his/her report.

1. In the Page Editor, insert a Text element into the appropriate table cell .(see the figure below).
2. Right-click on the Text element and select Properties to open the Properties page for the element.

In this example the report languages are English and Norwegian, so there are two language fields under Titles in the Properties page.

3. Type into the fields the text you wish to display for the various languages.
4. Select the style required for the text.
5. Click Apply and Save.

Figure 1 - Using a Text element

Now when you preview the page, you will see the text depending on which language is set for the report.

Note: If you leave a language field for a text object empty, then the report in that language will show the text from that text object in the default language for the report. The default language for a report is set in the Report properties.