Change workbook description in several languages (multi language)

[former_member287557]

Hi All,

after having created many AfO reports/workbooks (Excel) and saved them to SAPNetweaver in our preferred UI language (DE) we would now like to give descriptions for other UI languages (esp. EN), too .

One way we found is to reconnect to SAP with language EN and then save the report/workbook again.

But this is quite time consuming for some hundreds of reports.

Hope there is another, quicker way to do so.

Within BEX3.5 there was the "Change workbook title" feature, which we cannot find anyhere in AfO.

Technically spoken:

How to add descriptions to table RSAOOBJT column DESC in other LANGU

without just hacking them  it into the DB table directly.

Thanks in advance

[cornelia_lezoch · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

did you try the translation tool?

Though I am not sure that AfO workbooks are included as objects yet.

regards

Cornelia

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/de/4a/5d6828e11315c9e10000000a42189c/content.htm

[former_member287557 · Accepted solution]

Hi Cornelia,

I have to admit that I know about the existance of that  "translation tool" but never used it.

The reason is that when starting with BW +10 years ago (without me beeing involved yet) it turned out to be...lets say...not perfectly fitting the needs 😉

Maybe we should have a look on that tool again, so thanks for that link wich might give a quick step into topic. Maybe we will then regret not having used it over all those years.

Is it easy to implement and to use ?
For the current Project there is not much time to install a huge / expensive / difficult tool.

Kind Regards

Michael

[cornelia_lezoch · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

well, the tool does not need to be installed.

But it has not really improved yet in the last years 😞

I know it´s a hassle, so usually I go the way of logging on in DE and En and change the texts manually. For a certain amount of queries and workbooks (maybe about 50 workbooks, 2 queries each) this seems to me more efficient than this tool.

regards

Cornelia

[former_member287557 · Accepted solution]

Hi Corinna,

that is exactly the way we did it over all the years and exactly the same reason was given by my colleagues who have been here before me.

The only difference is that we never gave that tool a chance again,
which following your words was not that far from truth 😉

Hmmm.

Nevertheless I will check if it is for that special task here maybe the better way to go.

Kind regards

Michael

[former_member287557 · Accepted solution]

Hi Cornelia,

sorry for using "Hi Corinna" in my post.

I have no idea how or why that happened.

Sorry

Michael

[former_member287557 · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

We did it with that "translation tool".

Most time consuming were the pre configuration steps and some problems with transporting afterwards but the result is what counts.

Many Thanks

Michael

[former_member110741]

Hi Michael Rudelstein,

Please check this might be you are looking at

Subhash

[former_member287557]

Hi Subhash,

I think the link is not the one you wanted to put in.

It seems to refer to excactly that chat here.

Kind of endless Loop.

Michael

[former_member110741]

Hi Michael Rudelstein,

sorry for that,  i want give this link

PS : not able to edit previous one, just replied again

Subhash

[former_member287557]

Hi Subhash,

it seems to me that my expolantions were mistakeable.

I do not have any trouble in getting into another language, I just think that the effort of translating by overwriting each Report with ist englisch Version is pretty high just to change or set one single text field within the SAP database.

Nevertheless I will keep your explanations in mind when we finally check our SSO Settings.

Kind Regards

Michael