Configuring Replication of Language-Dependent Fields

The language pack for an Employee Central locale must be enabled in Provisioning so that you can transfer texts in the corresponding language.

Employee Central supports translations for position names, but not for position descriptions. Add a custom description field to the Position object definition in Employee Central if you want to replicate position descriptions for multiple languages.

To enable replication of texts, you first map language-independent text fields. This mapping is used as a placeholder. Also, you map the locales you use in Employee Central to the corresponding SAP S∕4HANA languages. Based on this language mapping, the language-dependent field mappings are then automatically created and replace the placeholders when the data is extracted.

If you don't define at least a language mapping for the default locale, no language-dependent data can be transferred.

Let's say you try to replicate a new department from Employee Central to SAP S∕4HANA. This means that a new record of the Object (1000) infotype must be created in the SAP S∕4HANA system. The Object infotype needs a language. To determine the language to be used, the SAP S∕4HANA system reads the entries stored in the V_ECPAO_LOCALE. If there aren't any entries here, the system doesn't know which language to use for the infotype record. Therefore, the department can't be replicated. The corresponding replication request has the status Pending.

Data transfer between Employee Central and SAP S∕4HANA automatically uses language-dependent field mappings instead of the placeholder mapping. There's no need to define a mapping for the language-dependent fields explicitly. In our example, the integration uses the following mappings.