Maintaining Text Elements: Overview (SAP Library

Maintaining Text Elements: Overview

Use

Use this tool to create, maintain, and translate text elements for your program.

Text elements include:

List and column headers that appear in ABAP lists

Selection texts on selection screens

Text symbols that you use with the WRITE statement.
See also the text symbol documentation in the ABAP User's Guide.

Note

Text elements are stored separately from the program in language-specific text pools. Your program automatically uses the text elements in the user's logon language.

You can create and maintain text elements without having to change the source code of your program. You can also create standard text elements that you can copy and use in other programs. If you work exclusively with text symbols, and do not hard-code any texts in WRITE statements, your programs will be fully multilingual. All you then need to do is to translate the text elements from their original language into the required foreign languages.

Translators can use the ABAP Workbench to translate the text pool of the original language into other languages.

Features

List and column header creation and maintenance

Selection text and text symbol creation and maintenance

Selection text and text symbol comparison

Text element copy

Text element translation

Starting the Text Element Maintenance Tool

See the initial screen documentation.