Internationalization and Translation 
Internationalization and Translation
Use
In your BSP applications you can work with text literals and texts from the
Online Text Repository (OTR).
If you only want to use OTR texts you have the advantage that your BSP application will be language-independent. All the texts defined in the OTR are displayed at runtime in the logon language. If the texts are not yet available in the logon language, they are displayed in the system language. The OTR texts that you create are automatically translated or are forwarded to the translation transaction (
SE63) and are entered in the translator’s worklist.
If necessary, you can change any OTR texts that you create later.
You can also call OTR texts directly from ABAP, regardless of whether you are using the BSP programming model or not. For more information see
OTR Texts in ABAP.
You can find an example of using the OTR with a BSP application in the
Functions
When you create an BSP application you can choose between two different OTR texts:
Alias OTR texts are texts shorter than 255 characters. These texts often appear on the interface and should be reused many times.
Alias texts can be addressed in the BSP using
OTR long texts are texts longer than 255 characters and are displayed in the interface of your BSP application. They contain, for example, details for the end user about working with the Web application in question. These texts occur only in a simple format and are seldom reused.
Long texts can be addressed in the BSP using
In the following you will learn how to create both alias and long texts in the OTR and how to use them in your BSP application.
Activities
Creating OTR Alias Text Creating OTR Long Text