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Select Your Text Sources

Context

Select the text sources that you want to have translated.

Procedure

  1. In the Maintain Translationsapp, open the project you want to add text sources to.

  2. Scroll down to Text Sources and click Add.

  3. Here you can select which text source types to add. The following text source types are supported:

    • Application Job Catalog Entries

    • Application Job Templates

    • Application Log Objects

    • Business Configuration Objects

    • CDS Type Definitions

    • Data Definitions (View Entities, Projection Views, Abstract Entities and Custom Entities)

    • Data Elements

    • Domains

    • Fiori Launchpad App Descriptor Items

    • Fiori Launchpad Page Templates

    • Fiori Launchpad Space Templates

    • IAM Business Catalogs

    • Message Classes

    • Metadata Extensions

    • Text Pools

    • Text Tables

    It’s also possible to specify a package from which all supported translatable elements will be pulled into the translation project. Please note that translatable elements in sub packages are not included.

  4. Select Add to open the Add Text Source dialog which displays all text sources that can be added to the translation project. By filtering the type and name, you can choose the text sources you want to add. Select Add to add the text sources you selected to your translation project.

    Note:

    Text sources that can be translated by a translation project need to reside in the same software component as the translation project.

    Note:

    • If you want to test the translated texts of IAM business catalogs directly in the SAP Fiori launchpad of the development system, you have to publish the IAM business catalog once again locally in ADT.

    • If you want to test the translated texts of data definitions or metadata extensions directly in the development system with a SAP Fiori app built on top of these objects, you should first reactivate the objects in ADT to ensure that all caches will be invalidated.

Note:

Text Tables

Text tables are database tables that were created as part of a business object and in which language-dependent texts are stored. The translation of text table entries is only available in environments that support transporting client-specific data.

A database table needs to fulfill the following requirements to be considered a text table by the Maintain Translations app:

  • The database table has exactly one key field of ABAP Dictionary Built-in Type LANG.

  • The database table is of delivery class C or S.

  • The database table is located in the same software component as the translation project.

  • The translation of text tables that contain key fields of type p (packed number), i (integer) or x (byte field) is not supported. That includes any kind of UUID and raw types, such as SYSUUID_X16.

If these requirements are fulfilled, the database table can be added to a translation project as a text table. Additionally, the following rules apply:

  • Every non-key field of the text table that is of an ABAP Dictionary built-in type that is character-like and has a minimum length of 1 will be interpreted as a text attribute for which translations can be maintained.

  • When the translations are published, the rows containing the texts in the target language will be added to the selected transport via R3TR TABU.

In this tutorial (Create an SAP Fiori-based Table Maintenance App with SAP BTP ABAP Environment) on how to create a business configuration application to maintain error code definitions, for instance, the language-dependent texts for the respective error code definitions are stored as entries in the database table ZERROR_CODE_T### with ### being replaced by a number chosen by the developer, such as 000. The non-key field for which translations can be maintained is field DESCRIPTION.

Related Information

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