Collecting Objects for Translation

Context

Call the Data Warehousing Workbench. (One way to do this is to choose Start of the navigation path Modeling Next navigation step Data Warehousing Workbench: Modeling End of the navigation path from the SAP Easy Access screen) In the navigation window or the Goto menu, choose the Translation functional area.

Procedure

If you want to assign a source system, choose the function. The Choose Source System by Default dialog box appears.
Change the required settings in the selection lists.
In the navigation window of the Data Warehousing Workbench, select Object Types. In the central area of the screen, the system shows all the object types in the BW system that can be translated.

Recommendation

You can use Grouping to include all the objects before or after the selected object in the data flow in the translation. This allows you to translate a structured source system scenario, for example, from InfoSources and InfoCubes through to queries and workbooks.

In the central area of the screen, choose Select Objects

to select the required object type of the object(s) that you want to translate. Drag them to Collected Objects on the right of the screen.

Under Collected Objects, the system displays the selected objects and all their dependent objects. The worklist automatically includes the following objects for translation of an object, such as a query:

Object Included	Example
BW Object	Query
Sub-objects for this object	InfoObjects (characteristics and key figures) and predefined structures of an InfoProvider
Objects connected to this object	Workbooks that the query has been inserted into.

Note the following features:

The system only writes the selected objects to the piece list for the translation.
Objects in the SAP namespace (beginning with digit 0) are automatically not selected.
As with the Transport Connection functional area, the context menu provides functions to select everything for a node, or to delete selections.
Texts are only translated if they belong to an object that is in the active version (A) or in a Business Content development system in the delivery version (D) because only these objects are transported. When you have changed the object texts, you have to activate them before translation.
Navigation attributes have to be translated in addition to InfoObjects if their texts are not copied from the attribute characteristic.

Example

For navigation attribute 0COSTCENTER_0RESP_PERS, 0RESP_PERS is then not translated. Characteristic 0COSTCENTER is translated with the text of this navigation attribute instead.

If the texts for these navigation attributes are not offered in the translation, run program RADNTLANG. For more information, see SAP Note 480671 .
The texts of the DDIC objects generated for the metadata objects are not displayed on the interface in the BW system. They therefore do not need to be translated.

Choose . The Piece List for Translation screen appears.