Activate Culture

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General

This type of action is used to activate a culture which which will influence date and number formatting in subsequent actions and report document creations.

Properties

This type of action has the following properties:

Name

Description
Culture Name An Expression that returns a String that returns the name of the culture to activate. This needs to be one of the values of the CultureInfo Code column of the Culture Code List.

Example

If you add an Activate Culture action to the preparation actions of a Report to en-US. In an expression element of the report you use the following expression:

Mail & Deploy Expression

Format(Date.Today, "d")

The d format string specifier format the given date (in this example: the current date) to the short date format of the currently activate culture. Since en-US is activated, the date will be formatted using the MM/dd/yyyy format.