How to make Cognos chart tooltip support multilingual

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(Special note: This solution below is applicable for traditional chart only. if you use visualizations, then the most effective way is to duplicate final queries and change labels to Spanish.  )

Please see two attached graph below to show tooltip with both English and Spanish. This document documents all steps in detail.

Step 1: Change category, e.g. Year, locate it under chart node number.

Then make Custom Label as Show, text box will appear under category.

Then Click text box, make Text source variable as Localization, signs it as default text.

Click Spanish, and assign Spanish text for chart.

Step 2: Apply for Series using the same approach

Step 3: Change default measure

Then make Custom Label as Show, text box will appear in chart area.

Then Click text box, make Text source variable as Localization, signs it as default text; Click Spanish, and assign Spanish text for chart.