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Function documentationTerminology Redefinition

 

You can adapt messages, texts for redefinition object types, and interface texts to the terminology commonly used in your enterprise. If, for example, you want to use a different term instead of quality issue, you can replace this term at the specified places.

You set up terminology redefinition in Customizing for QIM under Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Redefine Terminology End of the navigation path. Here, you can create different variants of the terminology redefinition and then store them as user parameters in the user master record or as application parameters in the role.

Features

Messages

You can copy the messages for the QIM applications and QIM Customizing used in the standard system and adapt them to your terminology. The following QIM message classes are relevant for this:

  • /IAM/OBJECT: Messages that are relevant when creating issues and activities

  • /IAM/CONFIG: Messages that are relevant within QIM Customizing

To do this, create your own message class and save this in QIM Customizing for terminology redefinition. In your message class, you must only enter the new text under the respective number.

Redefinition Object Types

You can change texts for many DDIC data types (structures or data elements). To do this, in Customizing for terminology redefinition select the corresponding object type using the input help, for example, object type ITY for the issue type. You can use the input help to find out which data type corresponds to the object type. Copy the data type in the transaction SE11 and make your changes. Then enter the copy with your changes in Customizing.

Interface Texts

You can replace texts on the interface that are technically stored in the online text repository (OTR) with an OTR alias in the packages /IAM/UI or QAM_UI (or subpackages) with your own OTR texts. You recognize OTR texts in a Web Dynpro configuration by their prefix $OTR:.

Create a new OTR alias and save the assignment to the alias that is to be replaced in Customizing for terminology redefinition. If the text is also used directly in a Web Dynpro configuration, you must replace the alias name there manually. Use the where-used list to display all the places where the OTR alias you want to replace is used.

Parameters

You can store the redefinition that you have created in QIM Customizing in the following places:

  • As the user parameter /IAM/REDEFINITION in the user master record in transaction SU01 (centrally) or SU3 (by the users themselves)

  • As an application parameter in the menu for the role (transaction PFCG) in the details view of a Web Dynpro application