selection texts

[Former Member]

what are selection texts ?

Regards,

Jagan

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can replace the standard texts that appear next to input fields on selection screens with text elements. You can either use a short text defined in the ABAP Dictionary or create your own texts. Text elements help you to write language-independent programs. They are stored in the text pool of their language, and can be translated using the normal translation process.

Text elements include:

1)List and column headers that appear in ABAP lists

2)Selection texts on selection screens

3)Text symbols that you use with the WRITE statement.

4)See also the text symbol documentation in the ABAP User's Guide.

Text elements are stored separately from the program in language-specific text pools. Your program automatically uses the text elements in the user's logon language.

You can create and maintain text elements without having to change the source code of your program. You can also create standard text elements that you can copy and use in other programs. If you work exclusively with text symbols, and do not hard-code any texts in WRITE statements, your programs will be fully multilingual. All you then need to do is to translate the text elements from their original language into the required foreign languages.

Translators can use the ABAP Workbench to translate the text pool of the original language into other languages.

Cheers,

Satya.