Preparing a System for Translation (SAP Library - Setting Up and Coordinating Translation (BC-DOC-TTL))

Preparing a System for Translation

Purpose

In order to translate in the R/3 System, you will need to maintain the translation environment.

You set up the translation environment in transactions SLWA and SLWB.

Implementation Considerations

Before you start maintaining the translation environment, you should:

provide or extend system resources - please see System Resource Setup

perform administrative measures and preparation - please see Administrative Measures

The translation environment must be defined before the start of productive translation.

Integration

After you have completed the above preparation, you start maintaining the translation environment in transaction SLWA.

Transaction SLWA is used to maintain the control tables for translation and to set up the translation environment.

Authorization for some of the functions used in SLWA depend on:

the profile S_ADMI_FCD with value TRNR, which is only assigned to administrators - this is assigned in the user master record
the authorizations assigned to users in the translator profile in transaction SLWA itself.

After you have finished maintaining the translation environment in transaction SLWA, you will need to run an initial scan of the R/3 System, create language-independent object lists of objects whose texts need to be translated in the R/3 System, and evaluate these objects in order to create language-dependent worklists of objects for translation. For this purpose, you use the Translation Planner in transaction SLWB.

Features

In transaction SLWA, you set up the translation environment. See Setting Up the Translation Environment.

In transaction SLWB, you prepare objects for translation by performing the steps listed below:

schedule an initial run - please see Scheduling an Initial Run

define the source systems for transport scans

define the language priorities and default hosts

create language-independent object lists - please see Object Lists

run the evaluation to create language-dependent worklists and statistics - please see Evaluation Run

Constraints

Please remember that the respective codepage must be set for the languages involved in the translation process. These languages must be entered in the system profile of this server.