Structure of the Text Key

Use

SAPscript texts are usually allocated to an object from an SAP application. For example, there are texts on customers, vendors, and materials. To see immediately to which application object a text belongs, the text name should correspond to the respective object name.

	Text name
Customer 0000000012	0000000012
Customer 0000000007	0000000007
Vendor 0000000014	0000000014

As long as the names of customers differ from the names of vendors, no problems can occur. However, since this is not the case, you need another attribute in the text key to make the allocation unique: the text object. The text object links a text directly to the corresponding application object.

	Text Object	Text name
Customer 0000000012	KNA1	0000000012
Vendor 0000000012	LNA1	0000000012

In most cases, one text to describe an application object is not enough. For customers, you may need texts for the accounts department, for the marketing department, and for the sales department. To identify these different types of texts, you use the text ID. The text ID, thus, is an attribute for distinguishing texts within one text object.

	Text Object	Text name	Text ID
Customer 0000000012 Accounting note	KNA1	0000000012	0002
Customer 0000000012 Marketing note	KNA1	0000000012	0003
Customer 0000000012 Sales note	KNA1	0000000012	0001
Vendor 0000000012 Accounting note	LNA1	0000000014	0001

Since the SAP system is a multi-lingual system, these different texts, moreover, can appear in different languages. This makes the language ID another integral part of the text key:

	Text Object	Text name	Text ID	Text language
Customer 0000000012 Accounting note	KNA1	0000000012	0002	D
Customer 0000000012 Accounting note	KNA1	0000000012	0002	E
Customer 0000000012 Marketing note	KNA1	0000000012	0003	D
Customer 0000000012 Marketing note	KNA1	0000000012	0003	F
Customer 0000000012 Sales note	KNA1	0000000012	0001	E
Vendor 0000000012 Accounting notes	LNA1	0000000014	0001	D
Vendor 0000000012 Accounting notes	LNA1	0000000014	0001	E

All texts are stored with the respective client. The complete text key now consists of the following components:

	Type	Length	Table field for Like definition
Client	CLNT	3	THEAD-MANDT
Text Object	CHAR	10	THEAD-TDOBJECT
Text name	CHAR	70	THEAD-TDNAME
Text ID	CHAR	4	THEAD-TDID
Text language	LANG	1	THEAD-TDSPRAS

To find out the key of a text, in the SAPscript text editor choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Header End of the navigation path to display the text header. A dialog box appears that contains the key components of the current text and other information.

The SAPscript function interface checks whether the key fields passed contain valid values:

Text object:

The specified text object must be defined in the table TTXOB.
Text ID:

The text ID specified must be defined in table TTXID together with the specified text object.
Text language:

The language specified must be defined in table T002.
Text name:

The text name specified must not contain the characters ',' (comma) and '*' (asterisk).