To see how the localization works in practice, let's develop an example of localized Pentaho Report that you can use in your future tasks. The idea is to reuse a previous example, replacing some static labels with resource-label, and see how the report looks in a couple of different languages (we will use English and Spanish as examples).

For this purpose, let's reuse report_02.prpt we saw in Chapter 4, Creating a Report with Report Designer. If you followed the suggestion, you should have the report saved in your my_report folder in your development environment. If not, you can download it from the https://github.com/fcorti/pentaho-8-reporting-for-java-developers repository, from the Chapter 04 - Creating a report with Report Designer/my_reports path.

Once the report is opened in the Report Designer, select the label: Actuals per position title element in the Structure tab of the report explorer (you can find it under Master Report | Report Header). To replace...