Hello! I have a question regarding data translati...
# gooddata-ui
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Hello! I have a question regarding data translation (i.e., a task that cannot be handled by the XLIFF file). What would be the feasibility of writing a dashboard plugin that translates the data? Let's imagine a survey table where the columns represent question IDs and the rows represent answer IDs. Currently, if I want to display that data to both English and French users, the data has to be prepared server-side in both languages, and then finally displayed in GoodData. I had a productive discussion about other options, and before committing to one solution—or continuing with my current system of duplicated workspaces, dashboards, visualizations, etc.—I’d like to explore this last option. So, does the dashboard plugin expose enough methods to replace the displayed data (e.g., in legends, titles, hover text, etc.) with their translations? Have you implemented this for other customers before? Could this lead to unintended side effects, making it a bad idea? Thanks a lot
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Hi Simon, I'm afraid that dashboard plugins do not allow for data manipulation; the data is queried exactly as it appears in your data source. I believe the options provided by my colleagues are already quite solid, given the limitations of data translation that have been explained.
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Thank you for your answer @Moises Morales 👍