Using Multilingual Settings

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to activate the multilingual capabilities

Multilingual Capability

Projects are increasingly planned and executed by international teams. To avoid being tied to one project language, SAP PS makes it possible to maintain project short texts and long texts in a language predefined by the user. This means when multilingual capability is active and maintained, users will see project short texts and long texts in their respective logon languages. When multilingual support is activated, the detail screen for the objects contains another tab page in which you can enter the language-dependent short texts. The Customizing settings for multilingual capability determine the objects and language for which texts are displayed and entered, as well as the language for printing. Multilingual capability includes support for short texts for operative project definitions, project structures, milestones for activities and WBS elements, network headers, activities, and activity elements. If you also maintain long texts, you can continue to do so in the respective logon language. Multilingual capability is also available for standard project definitions and standard project structures. You can select a Standard Text Key to use additional maintenance functions for multiple languages. The Standard Text Key (transaction code CA10) allows you to save texts in multiple languages in the system under a single key. Therefore, you can maintain multilingual short texts and then select the text key to include them in the project at a later time.

The screenshot shows short texts for the project definition in different languages.

The screenshot shown can be found via SAP MenuLogisticsProject SystemProjectProject Builder. Open project E-9820.

Caution

You must activate multilingual capability in Customizing separately for each object. Multilingual support is not available for standard networks.

Note

If you log on in a language for which no short text is maintained, the system selects the short text from the respective master language. If you wish to change this, you can do so in the tab page for multilingual capability in the Project Builder.

How to Activate Multilingual Capability

Activate Multilingual Capability