Language Resources

The HTML page derived from an SAP transaction screen and displayed in the Web browser can contain a mixture of texts. Some can come from the SAP system, while others may be generated outside SAP system.

At runtime, the Internet Transaction Server (ITS) automatically receives ABAP text elements from SAP system in the correct language. For non-SAP system text elements (such as those in graphics), the ITS must take steps to generate the texts in the correct language.

The solution to this problem is provided by language resources, which contain collections of text elements in a particular language. Language resources always consists of language resource keys, and corresponding translated texts.

Language resources are used by the ITS to run a service in a particular language, and thus keep HTML templates language-independent. Instead of hard-coding language-specific texts directly in the HTML templates, you specify placeholders in the templates and store the texts in the relevant language resources.

HTML templates use the language resource keys as placeholders for non-SAP system text elements. At runtime, the ITS replaces the placeholders with the translated texts from the appropriate resource file. The appropriate language resource is always the file that contains texts in the current logon language.

If you create no language resources, the ITS uses your HTML templates without attempting any text translation.

You create and edit language resources using the Web Application Builder.