Computer readable medium, method and apparatus for preserving filtering conditions to query multilingual data sources at various locales when regenerating a report

A computer readable medium for implementing multilingual objects to regenerate the results of queries in a language other than one used to initially generate the queries, the computer readable medium comprising executable instructions to:

• specify query parameters configured to formulate a query;
• specify a condition identifying a first translated label value associated with a first language;
• transform said condition to form a translated condition as a function of a locale variable;
• and
• implement said translated condition with said query to form a transformed query that is language-independent prior to generating a report,
• wherein said transformed query is configured to automatically regenerate the results of said query as part of said report in a second language.

An apparatus for preserving filtering conditions to regenerate query results using multilingual data sources for various locales, said apparatus comprising:

• a locale manager configured to provide at least a locale indicator identifying a first language;
• and
• a multilingual query engine configured to access data sources each maintaining data in multiple languages, and configured further to accept query parameters of a query, acquire a condition for filtering said query to provide query results in terms of said condition, and transform said query into a transformed query,
• wherein said transformed query is configured to provide said query results in any language as determined by one of a plurality of locale indicators.