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Martin_Gebhartl
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Oct 30, 2026 10:54 AM UTC
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How to display account descriptions in Word extensible documents?

Hi,

Is there a way to display account descriptions in an extensible document (Word) without using cubeviews?

For stored values on accounts it´s quite simple using the XFCell function, also parameters can be displayed as text easily, but I have not found a way to display the account description so far!

Regards

Martin

JJonesAnswer
OneStream Employee
Nov 10, 2026 8:25 PM UTC

Martin,

From what I can tell from testing this XF Doc Variable will only accept the Default Description.  

I created a user and set the culture for the user to French in my test and entered a description for the member in French and then saved the changes.

Logged out and logged back in and then ran my XF Document and even though I was logged in with a user with French culture code it displayed the default description.

I also attempted to pass culture as you did with the french culture code and it would still return the default description.

Looking at document, I do not see Culture as an option to pass into the DocVariable.

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Martin_GebhartlAuthor
Contributor
Oct 30, 2026 11:35 AM UTC

Hi again,

I managed to display the account description using  {DOCVARIABLE “XFMemberProperty(DimTyoe=Account,Member=SALES,Property=Description,Culture=de-DE)”} but the account description still gets displayed in the default language and not in German.

Any ideas on this?


Regards

​​​​​​​Martin 

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JJonesOneStream EmployeeAnswer
OneStream Employee
Nov 10, 2026 8:25 PM UTC

Martin,

From what I can tell from testing this XF Doc Variable will only accept the Default Description.  

I created a user and set the culture for the user to French in my test and entered a description for the member in French and then saved the changes.

Logged out and logged back in and then ran my XF Document and even though I was logged in with a user with French culture code it displayed the default description.

I also attempted to pass culture as you did with the french culture code and it would still return the default description.

Looking at document, I do not see Culture as an option to pass into the DocVariable.

Stefano
Member
Nov 11, 2026 2:39 PM UTC

If the XFMemberProperty doesn’t work you could use a XFBR, pass it the account name and in the BR you look up the culture desc. Here an example of how to get the culture desc Get member description in user's culture code | Community

Martin_GebhartlAuthor
Contributor
Nov 12, 2026 9:25 AM UTC

Thank ​@Stefano for your workaround and ​@JJones for testing!

I will post this as a feature request in Ideastream. I think the there should be the possibility to use the culture option in DocVariables for Memberproperty descriptions, as the culture option exists and works within a DocVariable when using the XFCell function.

Regards

Martin

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