Translating Objects Directly

You can call up and translate individual objects directly in transaction Translation: Initial Screen (SE63), without calling up a worklist.

Our general recommendation is that you translate objects by using a worklist. However, you may need to access an object directly in the following situations:

• The system in which the translation is required is not set up for translation.

• You only need to edit a single object. If this is the case, it is quicker to access the object directly than to call up a worklist for several objects.

There are different ways of accessing objects directly for translation in transaction SE63:

• By using the menu

• By using object type IDs

• By using meta object types

• By using transport objects

If you want to call up objects directly for translation in transaction SE63, you need the following information:

• The translation object type, such as data element short text or message long text
• The technical name of the object you want to translate, such as SPRAS

To call up an object directly for translation, you use the initial screen of transaction SE63 to branch to the entry screen for the translation object type that you require, such as data element short text or message long text. Each object type has its own entry screen.

The entry screen requires you to specify the technical name of the object you want to translate, and the source and target languages. When you choose Edit, the system opens the object in the appropriate translation editor.