Setting Up a Target Language 

Use

You can only use worklists to translate into a particular language if this language has been defined as a target language for translation in the SAP system. Any language that is supported in the system can be a target language. This means you can also define languages that are not SAP standard languages.

Each target language has a four-character ID in the SAP system. If regional languages are supported by the programming environment from which the objects to be translated originate, it enables you to translate into European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, for example.

The internal language ID used in the ABAP environment still consists of a single character, which is the reason why ABAP objects cannot be translated into regional languages.

You must set up the target language before you perform any other activities to set up the translation environment. Most of the subsequent activities presuppose that the target language has been set up already.

You can define a priority for each target language. This enables you to determine the language’s priority when language-dependent processes, such as worklist generation, take place in the batch environment. Batch processes can take several hours to run in large systems, so this enables you to ensure that translation into important languages can start earlier than translation into languages that are less important. For example, if English translation needs to be complete as soon as possible, you give English very high priority.

You can also specify the server on which a language is translated. In systems with several servers, for example, you can determine that languages with large proposal pools run on the most powerful servers.

Prerequisites

·        The natural language settings (NLS settings) have been maintained. See Preparing a System for Translation.

·        Your translator profile includes the authorization object LANG with the value 01.

Procedure

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       1.      Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

       2.      On the Languages tab page, choose Languages.

The Translation Languages dialog box is displayed.

       3.      Choose Add Languages, and select the required translation languages.

       4.      Choose a priority for the language.

       5.      Specify a server for the language.

       6.      Save your settings.

The Translation Languages dialog box also shows you who created a target language, and the date on which it was created.

Result

The system creates the specified language as a target language. You can now continue setting up the system for translation with worklists.