Portal Content Translation 

Purpose

SAP Enterprise Portal provides a process for translating the following text types:

·        Resource bundles

Text parts of a PAR file that exist as separate objects

·        Texts of portal objects (iViews, pages, worksets, roles, systems, etc.)

Multilingual object metadata for portal objects that is stored in the database of the Portal Content Directory (PCD). If a property of a portal object has type text attribute, it is marked as a text and can be translated (e.g. name, description).

The translation process is supported by two tools that can be called from the content administration role. Choose Content Administration ® Portal Content Translation ® Translation Worklist Coordination or Worklist Translation. These tools are used to coordinate and to translate translation worklists. For detailed information see Translation Worklist Coordination and Worklist Translation.

Prerequisites

Transport the texts to the system in which translation is to take place. To find out how to perform language transports, see Performing Language Transports.

Process Flow

The following graphic shows the flow of the translation process for portal objects. The blue process steps belong to “Translation Worklist Coordination”, and the orange steps to “Worklist Translation”.

Result

At the end of the translation process, the “Publishing” step automatically writes the texts back to the objects to which they belong. The texts are written to the Portal Content Directory (PCD) or stored at the location of the corresponding PAR files.