Error: Structure Value is different depending on Language

[Former Member]

In transaction VOV8 I have sales Type OR.

If I change to language Spanish, that Type is not there. But there is a type TA that is not in the English view.

I tried to copy OR and create TA in English but it tells me that destination type can not be same as source. If I do it in Spanish it let me do it, and when I go back to English now I have 2 OR types.

I have also noticed that the OR type in the alphabetical order is between letters S and T and not between letters N and P as it should.

I imagine this should be raised with SAP directly.

Regards,

Carlos

[Sandra_Rossi]

Hi Carlos,

> I imagine this should be raised with SAP directly.

No!

What you experience is the usual behavior when there are conversion routines which convert from internal to external formats. OR is probably an external value (i.e. what is output to screen or to printer) while its internal value (i.e. what is really stored in database) is probably TA ! (as SAP says source and target are the same)

The external value may be a value entered in the customizing, which depends on the language. So, OR would be the value for Spanish.

A well-known customizing which works like this is the unit of measure . A "Bag" will be BAG in English, but SAC in French.

That said, it is difficult to know which value to use if you frequently log using different languages. One way is to look at the customizing text table using SE16 (for example T006A for unit of measures).

Moreover, this frequently affects the sorting as it is usually done before the conversion.

BR

Sandra

[Clemenss]

Hi Carlos,

yes, this is tricky: AUART is connected to inpit/output conversion routine AUART. The I/O conversion modules will regard the language-dependent entry in field TAUUM-AUART_SPR for the actual logon language.

So while I am still analyzing, Sandra already gave the correct answer. If you want to maintain a certain language, logon in that language.

Look at the entries in table TAUUM to get an idea.

Regards,

Clemens

[Former Member]

Ok, I just thought that those key were cross language.

Regards,

Carlos