Translating Fields into Foreign Languages and Viewing Translated Fields
You can display and print sales A/R and purchasing A/P documents for foreign business partners in their own languages by translating field values to foreign languages in SAP Business One windows.
In addition, you can specify the foreign descriptions in the master data windows, for example, the Foreign Name
field in the Business Partner Master Data
window. This name is printed in documents when you select a layout in a foreign
language.
Prerequisites
You have activated multi-language support by choosing
Administration
System Initialization
Company Details
Basic Initialization
tab
and selecting the Multi-Language Support
checkbox.The required languages have been set up in
Administration
Setup
General
Languages
.For more information, see Adding and Removing a Language.
Procedure
Translating fields to foreign languages
Open the window in which you would like to translate field values, for example, the
Item Master Data
window.From the
View
menu, choose Indicator Display
Translatable Fields
.The
(Translatable
) icon appears next to the fields that can be translated and used by the multi-language support functionality.Place the cursor in the required field and from the
Goto
menu, choose Translate
or choose 
(Translations
) in the required field.The
Translations
window appears.In the
Language
column, select the languages to which you would like translate the selected field.In the
Translation
column, enter the translation of the value in the foreign language(s).To create the new translation(s), choose the
Add
button.
Viewing translated fields in sales A/R and purchasing A/P documents
Open a document, for example, a sales order, and select the display language on the
Logistics
tab.From the
View
menu, choose theTranslated Values
option.The translated fields appear in gray according to the defined language of the customer or vendor.