Creating and Changing Text Elements

Creating and Changing Text Elements

If you want to create or change program specific text elements, you can use several ways.

Choose Tools ® ABAP Workbench ® Development ® Programming environ. ® Text elements

In the Object Browser of the ABAP Development Workbench, choose Program objects for a specific program and then Text elements.

Choose Goto ® Text elements in the ABAP Editor

On the ABAP Editor: Initial screen (SE38), enter in the Program field the name of the program for which you want to maintain the text elements.

Select Text elements and choose Display or Change.

All actions take you to the ABAP Text Elements screen:

You can now choose what types of text elements you want to maintain for your program.

If you have changed the source code of your program, but have not yet generated it, the system generates automatically the program to update the relationship between the text elements and the program.

If the logon language differs from the original language of the program, i.e. the language under which the program was created, the following special features apply for all text elements:

In display mode, you see a warning in the status bar, indicating that the original language is not the same as the logon language. The text elements are displayed in the logon language. If certain text elements exist in the original language, but not in the logon language, they are displayed in the original language and flagged accordingly in column L. during the maintenance using the language ID. This allows you to locate untranslated text elements (see example in Translating Text Elements ).

In change mode, the system asks whether you want to maintain the text elements in the original language or whether you want to change the original language. When you change the original language, texts which do not exist in the new original language are taken from the old original language, but are not flagged.

The following topics discuss the different text elements in more detail:

Titles and Headers

Selection Texts

Text Symbols