Cost component view German instead of English

[Former Member]

When I display product cost estimate with quantity structure. Under the tab costs all the cost component view description show up in German. In our development and test client they show up fine in English. I don't know if this problem has any thing to do with costing at all but I was just wondering if any of you faced this problem and how did you solve the issue. If this is not the forum can you please point me to where should I pose this question.

Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi NIK83,

When a cost estimate and its itemization is saved in txn CK11N, the text of the items is only written in one language to database table CKIT. So if somebody who was logged on in German created and saved the cost estimate, everybody who displays this cost estimate in CK13N will see German texts. This is the design of the database tables. If there would be texts

for the items in every language installed in your system, the data volume would increase significantly.

However, you can change the layout of the itemization and the cost structure by adding certain columns, e.g. material description, with the English texts. You can save this layout and make it available to all users.

Regards,

Antje

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I really appreciate your interest in the issue. Our users have every thing being displayed in english through out the system. It is just the description of cost component view that is in German. We are all here in US and none of us uses any other other language than English.

Can you or any one else think of some thing else.

Regards,

Nasir Hameed

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I went to table TCKH8 and tried to look at the drop dowm menu to see if the names of cost component view are in german or english. And it is in German except for the last two (From the list of 8). Which tells me this problem is consistent across the whole client and not just while displaying the cost estimate. Just to clarify it is only the description of cost comp. views that is in german every thing else while displaying the cost component is in english

[dominic_holdstock · Accepted solution]

Hi,

CHeck Table TCKH9. You can then see if the EN are missing or if there is a german description in the EN Text.

Fixing this would then be an issue for your Basis , as these are SAP standard texts.

Kind regards