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You have to maintain your user settings before you are able to work with SAPterm. If you work frequently in SAPterm, you can define defaults that best suit the way you work. Below is a list of the settings that you can maintain for your user in SAPterm.

Features

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. For more information, see User Settings: Insert Languages.

  • 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.