SAP Logon online language switcher

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Problem

When you working at international multi-language SAP project - you may need to perform testing a lot of functionality at SAP Logon in different languages. Standard SAP approach - to change SAP GUI (SAPLogon) language you need to log-off and log-on again with other language.

IMO, it takes a lot of time to perform a simple action to change language, so, let's try to make a simple functionality to save our time.

Solution

Concept - create a custom tcodes for online switching language. So, these tcodes should call ABAP program with functionality:

• Set locale language:

SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'E'.

• Call a new session with new language via:

CALL FUNCTION 'ABAP4_CALL_TRANSACTION' STARTING NEW TASK 'LANGUAGE'

• Close the current session.

 

Implementation example:

• Create a new program, for example ZBC_LANG

REPORT ZBC_LANG.

CASE sy-tcode.

  WHEN 'ZEN'. SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'E'.

  WHEN 'ZRU'. SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'R'.

  WHEN 'ZPT'. SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'P'.

* WHEN 'Zxx'. SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'x'.

  WHEN OTHERS.

    exit.

ENDCASE.



CALL FUNCTION 'ABAP4_CALL_TRANSACTION' STARTING NEW TASK 'LANGUAGE'

  EXPORTING

    tcode = 'SESSION_MANAGER'.

• Create a list of transactions with names like Z<language> at SE93, for example ZEN, ZPT, ZRU etc.

How it works

Just put in tcode field "/nz<language>" (i.e. /nzEN, /nzPT etc).

System changes current language without logging-off.

Lang switcher