Language determination in issue output of VF03 Invoice

[Former Member]

Hello to all,

I have some Invoices i need to output to in another language. My abap consultant generated the smartform translation, however when I go through VF03 and issue the output, the smartform is generated in the original language.

The output type language is properyl set to the new and desired language. Does the VF03 takes its output language type from the customer master data, hence overwritting the output type language i've set and keeping the smartform from generating in the new language?

Thanks in advance.

[Jelena]

The language is in the output screen, you can easily change it for testing purposes in VF02:

As a side note - make sure that the translation was done in SE63 and transported correctly (if you are not in DEV system). Once I saw a "translation" done by adding the text nodes in the form and on top of that the developer set a wrong language in the condition (system language instead of output language from NAST). Fun times...

[VeselinaPeykova]

What language do you see in the condition record in the invoice in VF03?

Usually the language for the printout is taken from the communication language of the partner, unless you have specified a different language in the condition record.

It is possible that some or all texts are hard-coded in the form, of course, this is easy to check, but if all is in the original language, and the language in the condition in VF03 is the new one, I would check first with the developer if there were some issues with the translation.