Making SAPterm User Settings

Use

You can set user defaults in SAPterm that best support the way you work.

When you first logon to SAPterm with an authorized user, you will see a message requesting confirmation of a standard set of predefined selections. You can change the user settings at this time if you wish. In addition, you can change user settings at any time thereafter by choosing:

You can override many settings temporarily when using SAPterm. For example, although you must select a language pair in multilingual mode, you can select other languages and language pairs at any time in the term search screens.

Activities

To define your user settings, choose Administration  User Settings  Maintain on the initial screen of transaction STERM and select the relevant checkboxes.

• Display

  In the Display group box you can choose between Monolingual (terms appear in the source language only) and Multilingual (terms appear in both the source language and in the target language) as the default setting. You can still override this setting on the Edit Entry screen.

• Source Language (Default) and Target Language (Default)

  You can use these group boxes to define which languages are preset as your source and target languages when you call SAPterm. You can, however, change this default setting on the initial screen of SAPterm.

• Additional Languages

  You can select further languages in which you wish to view the terminology concept. You can display as many or as few languages as required.

• Context

  You can use these checkboxes to specify if you want to restrict the terms according to specific context or release criteria.

• Entry Type

  You can decide to display any combination of the additional entries related to a main entry.

• Environment

  You can define which environment information is to be displayed for the term.

• Status Indicator

  You can either display the status and entry class of a term as an icon or as text. You can also choose whether you always want to see the status of terms in the results list.

• Detailed Display

  You can define whether the additional information and the environment information are immediately visible in the terminology concept display or whether you have to expand the hierarchy to reveal the information.

• Subscriptions

  You can subscribe to an e-mail list of new terms that have been created during the previous calendar week. You can also subscribe to a list of terms that will be deleted in the following week.