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Messages allow you to communicate with users from your programs. They are mainly used when the user has made an invalid entry on a screen.
To send messages from a program, you must link it to a message class. Each message class has an ID, and usually contains a whole set of message. Each message has a single line of text, and may contain placeholders for variables.
All messages are stored in table T100. You create and edit them using Transaction SE91. Once you have created a message, you can use it in the MESSAGE statement in a program.
Text Element:
Text element maintenance is a tool in the ABAP Workbench that makes it easier to maintain program texts in different languages. Any text that a program displays on the screen can be maintained as a text element.
Its not possible to use placeholders in text element. You need to use multiple text elements and then concatenate into final variable. This can be used to display a message.
Messages allow you to communicate with users from your programs. They are mainly used when the user has made an invalid entry on a screen.
To send messages from a program, you must link it to a message class. Each message class has an ID, and usually contains a whole set of message. Each message has a single line of text, and may contain placeholders for variables.
All messages are stored in table T100. You create and edit them using Transaction SE91. Once you have created a message, you can use it in the MESSAGE statement in a program.
Text Element:
Text element maintenance is a tool in the ABAP Workbench that makes it easier to maintain program texts in different languages. Any text that a program displays on the screen can be maintained as a text element.
Its not possible to use placeholders in text element. You need to use multiple text elements and then concatenate into final variable. This can be used to display a message.
A major difference is that when you create a message and put all your messages there, then you can use the message class and the messages in any of the programs that you create.Many a times the same message needs to be called in many programs...so in that case the message class is more helpful.
Text elements are local to a program and hence can be used by only in the program in which it is defined.
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