SAP ABAP IMG Activity CMX_XS_VM_DL (Define Preferred Default Language)
Hierarchy
EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials
   PP-PI-PMA (Application Component) Process Management
     CMX_XSR (Package) XSteps: Standard Repositories
IMG Activity
ID CMX_XS_VM_DL Define Preferred Default Language  
Transaction Code S_EE5_50000310   (empty) 
Created on 20091111    
Customizing Attributes CMX_XS_VM_DL   Define Default Language 
Customizing Activity CMX_XS_VM_DL   Define Default Language 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name CMX_XS_VM_DL    

Use

In this IMG activity, you can define the default language in which the system is to display the standard XSteps if the latter have not yet been translated into the desired target language.

Short and long texts of all XStep objects are generally translatable in the XStep editor. A prerequisite for this is that the object to be translated is based on a characteristic that you have previously entered in the IMG activity Define Translatable Process Instruction Characteristics (transaction CMX23).

You can also invoke this IMG activity directly via transaction CMX24.

If you do not specify a preferred default language, as a basic rule the system displays the source language until such time as translation into the the logon language has been carried out.

To translate XStep texts, proceed as follows:

  1. You must log on in the desired target language.
  2. Invoke the XStep in change mode and overwrite the texts in the logon language.
  3. Save your changes.

    The system saves your input as a translation. The texts of the XSteps are now available in the original language and in the language into which translation has taken place.

Requirements

Standard settings

Activities

Example

You have defined English as the preferred default language. You have logged on in German and have created a new XStep. You have then translated the text into English. The XStep is also to be translated into French. A user logs on in French. Because there is as yet no translation into French, the system displays the new XStep in the preferred default language English. As soon as the French translation becomes available, it is displayed to the user when the latter logs on in French.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG CMX_XS_VM_DL 0 HLA0006253 O  
SIMG CMX_XS_VM_DL 1 HLA0009521 Basic Data 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
CMX_XS_VM_DL V - View SM30  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20091112 
SAP Release Created in 605