multi language data

[Former Member]

Hello Friends,

Our company has to upload the master data in india so v wil b uploading it in english but our company has its branches in 4 other countries also so do we have to upload the master data in 4 different country specific language?

or is there any settings in sap for automatic data translation so tht other country office users can c the data in their own language like chinese or spanish.???

Hope u got my prob

regards,

Sunny

[Former Member]

Hey,

We need not worry about that. But data loading dont use language as English. ALways use SY-LANGU so that the programs will work for all the languages.

COming to data, while uploadign data you are using data files send by the end-user right? as it is Indian end-user they gave us data in English. For other countries its their headache to send the data files in their specific language. so that you can upload in that language. They will never ask us to Transalte data from english to spanish or something and Upload. They will give data from their legacy system which will be in their own language. we need not worry about that.

[Former Member]

Hi

the Numbers and Numeric fields data doesn't varry from language to language

only the Texts/Char fields data varies

so if you login in other than EN the texts are to be converted to that language, so if that foreign language is active in system and when they logon in that language it automatically converts to that language.

Regards

anji

[Former Member]

thnks anji but r u sure tht data will b converted bcoz i hav heard only std text got converted not the data

thnks

sunny

[Former Member]

Hi

The first thing is to understand fi your system is available for all languages, i.e if the languages you need are installated on your systems: you can find out this information from system parameter zcsa/installed_languages.

If the languages are installated only std objects are automatically translated, the other objects have to be translated manually.

In particular while uploading the master data it should load the descriptions and the long texts in all your languages (so the translation has to be done before uploading them).

If you have just uploaded the master data, now you need only to upload the descriptions or long texts in the rest of the languages (so chinese and spanish).

Max

[Former Member]

thnks max

But hos its possible to upload the data in different languages, means how the data will be categorized,

there will b duplication of data also

do u knw how to go abt it?

Sunny

[Former Member]

Hi

It depends on which data you're speaking about.

If a data needs a different description for every language, it means the description is stored in a table where the language is a key field, but how to upload it'll depends on the type of the data.

For example if u use the BAPI BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA to upload the material, this BAPI has the table MATERIALDESCRIPTION (as dictionary table MAKT) where it can transfer the descriptions: so it can upload all descriptions in the same time. If it has just upload the main data, it can call it only to upload the rest of the descriptions.

So every object should have a structure in order to upload the descriptions in different languages at the same time, so u should check the program u've used to upload the data in order to find out this chance.

Max

[Former Member]

thnks to all,,, good points rewarded