MULTILINGUAL OPERATION

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DEAR EXPERTS,

I have some confussion regarding Multilangual-support in MDM.

SUPPOSE IN MY REPOSITORY ALL THE DATA ENTERED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOW WE CHANGE PRIMARY LANGUAGE

TO GERMAN. WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE LOGIN DATA MANGER,IMPORT MANAGER WITH GERMAN LANGUAGE?

HOW CAN WE MAINTAIN DATA IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE DIRECTLY IN DATA MANAGER.

THERE ARE TWO INHERITENCE. WHEN THIS INHERITANCE TAKE PLACE?

WHICH TABLE AND FIELDS ARE ALWAYS MULTILINGUAL AND WHICH ARE NEVER and WHICH ARE OPTIONAL?

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

When we say that MDM repository is multilingual it means it has provision to store and maintain data within MDm rep in different languages.

For this you will have to define your repoistory and repository fields as Multilingual for the ones which will be holding multilingual data.

In the import manger you can import mulitilingual source file data into multilingual fields by mapping one to one for each specific field in each specfic language.For eg you have a field dsecription as multilingual in two langauges say English and French then you will have two destination MDm fields in MDM import manger Desciption<Eng> and Description<French> in this way you can map each language field data acc.

The Primary language displays the Data in that fields based on the Primary language in which you want to view that particular field data the Secondary language will be the dispaly language for teh Field data if in case no value exist for that field in the primary language.

Now consider a multilingual field that is missing data in the current language. In a single-language repository, the value is shown as empty or NULL. However, MDM uses an innovative inheritance scheme to display u2013 and color-code u2013 data from other language layers for data values that are missing in the current language.Language inheritance is a type of layer transparency that allows individual data values to u201Cshow throughu201D from other language layers when the current layer is missing data

Within the multi-layered data model, not only the data but also all of the MDM repository metadata can be stored in multiple languages, for a consistent user experience in each language.

Language-specific metadata includes:

u2022 Table names

u2022 Field names

u2022 Category names

u2022 Attribute names

u2022 Attribute text values

Each user of the MDM system sees a u201Clanguage-centricu201D view of the repository data and metadata For example, one user can be entering and editing data in French while a second user is searching and browsing the repository in Japanese.

You can Follow the below links to understand Importing of Multilingual data:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0e4c37d-995c-2b10-e189-84240c89...

Managing Multilingual Data in MDM Data manger:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0030639-9b5c-2b10-b7b8-dcc9bf1b...

Console settings For Multilingual data:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30fddcb9-2a40-2b10-a9a9-db552d68...

Syndicating Multilingual Data:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/309c9712-2403-2b10-ba9f-d512da33...

Hope It Helped,

Thanks & Regards

Simona Pinto