Symbol Type Phrase 

Use

Symbols of symbol type Label /Phrase reference phrases in the phrase management of R/3 Product Safety. You use this symbol type to insert language-independent, standardized text modules into your document template.

Features

When generating the report, the R/3 System selects the phrases that are specified in a symbol of type Phrase using the phrase key and library. The phrases are expanded in the language that you specified using the language key.

Using a symbol of symbol type Phrase, you also insert phrase codes and graphics into templates. For this, you need to specify the appropriate expansion category in the Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI). The complete name of the graphics file (including its extension) must be entered as a phrase item.

You can also insert graphics dynamically in WWI. The graphics file must be located in the WWI LAYOUT directory. To insert the graphic, choose Insert ® Picture in WWI.

If you define a repeating group of the type Validity and language area, within a document template, you can output language-dependent symbols in different languages in accordance with the validity area. In such cases, the system uses the discrete validity area - language combinations defined in the generation variant (see: Generation Variant).

See also:

Section A in Layout of an Abridged Material Safety Data Sheet: An Example.

Activities

WWI: Inserting Phrases

WWI: Inserting Symbols