Renaming localized tabs in a dashboard can also rename tabs in other dashboards. - Known Error

Renaming localized tabs in a dashboard can also rename tabs in other dashboards. Description [Dashboard] when renaming a tab under an additional language, other tabs, even tabs belonging to other people, can also get renamed under the same language.

Steps to Reproduce

Login to an Istanbul or a Jakarta Instance or later. Install the plugins "I18N: Internationalization" and "I18N: German Translations" Go to Performance Analytics > Dashboards . Create a new Dashboard called "dashboard one" (Click on the context menu in the top left corner > New dashboard) In the newly created dashboard create 2 Tabs "Tab 1" and "Tab 2" (Use the configuration icon in the top left corner of the page) Do the same steps (3 and 4) above to create 2 additional Dashboards (dashboard two and dashboard three ) with 2 Tabs having the same names ("Tab 1" and "Tab 2") Go to "Dashboard one" and rename the "Tab 1" to "Tab0" . Note that the Tab was only renamed in "Dashboard one" and the two other dashboards are still having "Tab 1" as a name for the first tab. Switch to French language. Go to Dashboard one and rename "Tab 2" to "My tab 2" The change is applied to all dashboards. Workaround The following is not a workaround but describes the proper way to localize tabs for dashboards.

The behavior you are seeing is not a bug but is the result of how the platform handles multiple languages. Tab names are "user data" which needs to be localized by following the standard localization documentation: Translation tables Translated tab names are stored in the sys_translated table. The strings in English are used as keys to find the translation for another language in the sys_translated table. If you don't want to translate tab names between English and your native language, you can change the "name" field type in the "pa_tabs" table (proper admin role needed for this) from "translated_field" to "string".

Caution: The system will store only one value for the tab name and it will be independent of the language selected by the user at login.

If you do want to translate tab names because there are users using different languages, then you should follow the documentation and perform the following steps:

If you want the platform to use multiple languages (i.e. English + Japanese), you need to create a unique key in English for every value in the other language. When a new tab is created, it is labeled "Tab xxx" -> this is the unique English key. If all your tabs in English are named "Tab 1", and in Japanese you rename them all, then only the last name will be remembered since you only have one key in English ("Tab 1"). The following steps will explain how to achieve localization without requiring assistance from administrators.

Switch to English, open the dashboard, and change this default name in English and make a meaningful unique string . For instance "Financial Results BU Xyz 04/2019". Then you need to switch to your native language by logging in again and change the tab name using your language. For instance, if your language is French the new string could be "Résultats Financiers BU Xyz Avril 2019". Now the unique English key "Financial Results BU Xyz 04/2019" will always point to the French string "Résultats Financiers BU Xyz Avril 2019". However, since localized strings are stored in a catalog by the platform, if you create a new tab and give it the same name "Financial Results BU Xyz 04/2019" as the previous tab, it will automatically be named "Résultats Financiers BU Xyz Avril 2019" in French. If this is not the desired result then you should consider changing the field type are explained above.

The keys and values can also be edited directly by users with the required roles from the sys_translated table by following this documentation article: Translated Name / Field table