Validity Area translation

[Former Member]

SAP EHS experts:

I would like to translate Validity Areas, such as USA, Australia, and Europe, to 33 lanugages. However, I only see 20 available in the Validity Area translation screen. However, the table TCG92, stores Validity Area translations, has more than 20 languages. Does anyone know how to add more language into Validity Area translation screen?

Thanks

Tina Wu

[christoph_bergemann]

Hello all

could you please check other customizing activities? Most of EH&S customizing activities are set up in such a way that you can translate texts in more than one language. The x languages you see should show up systematically in any EH&S customizing activity (e.g. check "rating).

to set up new languages in SAP system you need to do a number of topics. I am not sure if the use of transaction SMLT is sufficient but this is the right area to look at.

I believe this is the process (I am not an expert here): first if you have an Unix system you must prepare locales and languages in Unix, then if you use e.g. oracle as the database you must install there the necessary files and then may be you need to use transaction SMLT. Furtheremore only after restart of database etc. I belive that the new languages are really available to be used.

I am not sure of the native EH&S language support is really related to the translation of customizing elements. My suggestion would be "no correlation". You could test this using different customizing elements (from MM etc.) which support language dependent descriptions (may be a material type). My suggestion would be that you can use the same x languages here too (e.g. use material type FERT and check if you can set up a description of FERT (finished products) in language JA etc. in a transport).

One "warning" in any case. To my knowledge there is a relation betwen sap log on language and EH&S. Example: You can install JA as log on langauge but! in the SAP standard in EH&S not all transations are available in JA ( i believe translations of EH&S elements in 11 languages are shipped). Hopefully you should get the english text (example: texts in property tree; property texts etc. like "density").

Hope you will suceed in preparing more translations

CB

PS: please check this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/45/b79cc372142735e10000000a155369/content.htm

=> Describes further prerequisites to install languages

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/a3/30ad5296b511d384bb0060975b04f3/content.htm

=> describes transaction SMLT

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/en/62/163d38c2113265e10000009b38f889/content.htm

=> you can check the status of installed language

Edited by: Christoph Bergemann on Nov 26, 2009 9:59 PM

[Former Member]

Hello,

Please refer the link below

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/ff/5f2238daeb0e64e10000009b38f842/content.htm

Rgds,

[john_hermans]

Hi,

Although I don't have the answer to your question, looking at this program may help: REHSBLSLC.

There is documentation available in SE38 / SE80 via the Goto - Documentation menu-item.

Also you may want to look at the documentation in SPRO for activity EH&S - Basic Data and Tools - Basic Settings - Set Up EH&S Native Language Support.

Good luck.

Regards,

John

[Former Member]

Hi,

I think the languages that are displayed for translation are dependant on the languages defined in the system's language administration.

Please check if you have all languages defined in transaction SMLT (SAP Menu: Tools -> Administration -> Administration -> Language Administration).

Best regards,

Andreas

[Former Member]

Hi Andreas,

I had the same thought too, but this guess is demolished after I check in SMLT. Not all languages listed in SMLT are also in Validity Area translation. For example, Danish and Finnish are listed in SMLT, but not available in Validity Area translation. Also, some languages are available in Validity Area translation, but not listed in SMLT. For example, Chinese, Croatian, Polish, Slovak and Slovenian are avaliable in Validity Area translation, but not listed in SMLT.

I read a SAP Note. It mentions to make the language as a logon language, and then it can become availabe for system translation. However, it is not all true in our system because the Validity Area translation has more language than our logon language. For example, Chinese and Barilian Portugues are available in Validity Area translation, but they are not set as logon language.

Do you have more ideas?

Thank you.

Tina