A field displayed on a page can be described in more detail using a field label. An application-specific text that describes the relevant field in more detail can be used as the text for the label. If the relevant field is assigned an ABAP data object with dictionary reference, then a suitable label can be determined from the related elementary dictionary type using method GET_FIELD_LABEL. In this way it is possible to standardize the field labels used for fields that are semantically similar.