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Prerequisites

  • You have authorization for the translation transaction SE63 (authorization object S_TRANSLAT).

  • You have your own extension, view or basic type, which has been tested. For more information, see

    Extending an IDoc Type

    IDoc Views

    Defining and Using a Basic Type

  • You have a list which groups together the newly defined segments.

  • You have a corresponding list of data elements, which you use for your newly defined segment fields, and which are not yet translated.

  • For these data elements you have a list of stored domains, which have fixed values still to be translated.

Context

For your own definitions (extensions, views or basic types) you can also enter documentation with the development tools of the IDoc interface (segment- and IDoc type editor). To translate this documentation into other languages, you must use the general translation transaction.

Procedure


  1. Choose Start of the navigation path SAP Menu Next navigation step Tools Next navigation step ABAP Workbench End of the navigation path, Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Translation Next navigation step Short and Long Texts End of the navigation path.

    You branch to the general translation transaction.

  2. Only if you have used data elements for your segment fields which have not yet been translated:

    Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Short Texts Next navigation step ABAP Dictionary Next navigation step Data Elements. End of the navigation path Enter a data element, source and target language and choose Environment with long texts. Translate your data elements (short texts) and documentation (long texts). Save your text. Proceed in this way for all the data elements in your list.

    Segment fields are documented using data elements. Therefore you must translate both the short and the long texts in the translation transaction.

  3. Only if you have used fixed values for your segment fields which have not yet been translated:

    Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Short Texts Next navigation step ABAP Dictionary Next navigation step Values End of the navigation path. Enter a domain, source and target language and choose Edit. Translate your fixed values (short texts) and save the text. Proceed in this way for all the domains in your list.

  4. Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Short Texts Next navigation step ABAP Dictionary Next navigation step Table Texts End of the navigation path. Enter a segment type, source and target language and choose Environment with long texts. Translate the short description and the documentation (the long text) of your table. Save your text. Proceed in this way for all the segments in your list.

    Segment types are stored in the ABAP Dictionary as structures. As every table also has a structure, tables and structures are referred to as tables in the translation transaction. Documented short and long texts are created for structures and tables.

    Note

    There is also a link to the translation transaction in Defining Segments: From there, choose Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Translation End of the navigation path.

  5. Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Logical Objects Next navigation step Logical Objects End of the navigation path. Enter as object:

    • IDOC, if you have defined a basic type,

    • IEXT, if you have defined an extension

    • IDCV, if you have defined a view

    Enter a source and target language and choose Edit. Translate the short description and save the text.

    Note

    There is also a link to the translation transaction in the IDoc Type Editor or the IDoc Views: From there, choose Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Translation End of the navigation path.

  6. Only if you have defined a new logical message:

    Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Short Texts Next navigation step Table Content End of the navigation path. Enter EDIMSGT in the table and the source and target language. Choose Edit. Translate the description and save the text.

  7. Only if you have defined a new process code:

    Choose Start of the navigation path Translation Next navigation step Short Texts Next navigation step Table Entries End of the navigation path. Enter as table:

    • EDE1T

      if you have defined a process code for outbound processing

    • EDE2T,

      if you have defined a process code for inbound processing

    Enter a source and target language and choose Edit. Translate the description and save the text.

Results

You have translated the documentation into your new definition. If you log on to the system in the target language, the documentation tools output the translated short and long texts. Your new logical messages and process codes are described in the target language in the IDoc interface.