Language and cultural preferences

IBM® Cognos® Insight uses different settings to determine your language and cultural standard depending on where you access Cognos Insight. This information will help you understand where Cognos Insight finds your language and cultural preferences so that you can change them, if necessary.

Cognos Insight and Cognos TM1

When you install or start Cognos Insight from the IBM Cognos TM1® Applications portal, the product language and content language that you set in the portal determine the language and cultural standards for Cognos Insight. For example, if you set the product language to French (Canada) and the content language to English (Canada), the Cognos Insight user interface appears in French and the cultural standards are Canadian English. If the language settings change, you can close and reopen a workspace in Cognos Insight to refresh the language and cultural standards.

For information about setting the product and content language in the Cognos TM1 Applications portal, see the TM1 Applications documentation. You can access this documentation from IBM Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter).

If you are not connected to a Cognos TM1 server, you can set the content language in Cognos Insight by clicking the Actions icon actions icon, clicking My Preferences, and then choosing from the list of content languages. The preference will override the cultural standards that are defined by your operating system or portal. This is useful when you are creating a workspace for users in another region or country, and you want to see how the workspace will appear to those users. For example, you are working in Ottawa, Canada, in French (Canadian), but the workspace you are creating will be consumed by a group of employees in France. You can set the content language of Cognos Insight to be French (France) to see your workspace as it will appear to your users.

If the Cognos TM1 administrator has enabled localization of names on the Cognos TM1 server, then cubes, dimensions, elements, and attributes will display in your local language as determined by your Microsoft Windows locale setting. If localization is not enabled, object names appear as they were originally created on the Cognos TM1 server.

Cognos Insight and Cognos Express

When you install or start Cognos Insight from the IBM Cognos TM1 Applications portal, the product language and content language that you set in the portal determine the language and cultural standards for Cognos Insight. For example, if you set the product language to French (Canada) and the content language to English (Canada), the Cognos Insight user interface appears in French and the cultural standards are Canadian English. If the language settings change, you can close and reopen a workspace in Cognos Insight to refresh the language and cultural standards.

For information about setting the product and content language in the Cognos TM1 Applications portal, see the TM1 Applications documentation. You can access this documentation from IBM Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter).

If you are not connected to a Cognos Express® server, you can set the content language in Cognos Insight by clicking the Actions icon actions icon, clicking My Preferences, and then choosing from the list of content languages. The preference will override the cultural standards that are defined by your operating system or portal. This is useful when you are creating a workspace for users in another region or country, and you want to see how the workspace will appear to those users. For example, you are working in Ottawa, Canada, in French (Canadian), but the workspace you are creating will be consumed by a group of employees in France. You can set the content language of Cognos Insight to be French (France) to see your workspace as it will appear to your users.