OTR Texts

Hi everyone,
I have several Adobe print forms to translate. Most of the static texts on this form already exist in our online text repository used by BSP applications.
Is there a way to access those texts inside the pdf form layout?
Thanks for your help.
Daniel
Edited by: Daniel Sulzer on Oct 14, 2008 12:11 PM

Hi Daniel,
You can access those text in your form. In case you are using WD ABAP just create a node in context and create an attribute of type string in that. Now bind this attribute to field on the form where you want to print this OTR text.
In case you are using WD Java you have to make RFC to access these texts to WD Java and the remaining procedure is same as explained in WD ABAP.
In case you are using normal ABAP you have to create context node through SFP transaction and there you have to create and bind the attribute to the form.
Regards,
Vaibhav Tiwari.

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Urgent.
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I am not sure whether we can assign it at the screen properties level. But you can do one thing, call the FM SOTR_READ_TEXT_WITH_KEY by passing the context of the SOTR you want to read and get the text associated back in the ENTRY structure.
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NW7
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The following SAP Notes have been reviewed and none of these solutions worked:
NOTE               Title                                                                             Date
1247020            OTR: Texts are not transported                                      4/08/09
575367              Text changes are not transported                                   9/24/08
1102260            UI element texts are not transported                               10/11/07
997513              Changed UI element texts are not transported                 11/13/06

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when I enhance a wd component I want to work with otr texts and I have two questions:
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Hi,
Answer to your questions.
1. Is the best way to store the otr texts in a separate new package or in the still existing package of the enhanced wd component?
A. You can create OTR texts any where as long as the transport goes along with the webdynpro component. Its always good to have the OTR in the same package. Its more like the text element concept in ABAP.
2. Makes it sense to fetch even the static texts in the abap coding (not the ui elements) like message manager from the otr or is it then overacting?
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a) If the message is used n number of times then you just have to change the text in OTR and it reflects all
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or
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Hi Ravi,
it is possible to replace an OTR Text with an image.
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You can even link it into the MIME Repository of your SAP System as well.
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<htmlb:textview> Tag and ensure that the switch
" encode = "TRUE" is enabled.
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<script...>
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</script>
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[code]
<%@page language="abap" %>
<%@extension name="htmlb" prefix="htmlb" %>
<%@extension name="phtmlb" prefix="phtmlb" %>
<htmlb:content design="design2003" >
<htmlb:page title="Main page " >
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data: otr_string type string.
otr_string = page->OTR_TRIM( '$TMP/mytext' ).
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</htmlb:page>
</htmlb:content>
[/code]

How can we transport the standard changed OTR texts w.r.t translation?

How can we transport the standard changed OTR texts with out effecting the translation concept.?
means i need to see the text in different languages which ever logged in.

using the function module SOTR_API_WB_TRANSLATE you can maintain translation in different languages for the OTR texts maintained in your WDA.
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SOURCE_LANGU                    EN
TARGET_LANGU                    FR
PGMID                           LIMU
OBJECT                          WDYV
OBJ_NAME                        %
FLAG_STRING
EDIT_MODE                       T

Regarding Assigning Package to OTR Text

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I've created one webdynpro Component and saved it in Local Object. Inside that component i've created OTR Text...
But nw i want to assign Package to that Webdynpro Component. I assigned Package to that Component.But I cant able to assign Package to that OTR Text.
Wat should i do for assigning package to the OTR text ?
Regards,
Padmam.

Hi,
1. Go to TCode: SOTR_EDIT
2. Select Short Text and click button Find
3. Select Object Type and search your OTR Text
4. Go to: Menu -> Concept -> Reassign.
5. Choose your new package.
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What is Concept in OTR texts and how does it work?

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hi chaitanya,
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In the page editor select the texts relevant for translation, using the <OTR>... </OTR> tag.
When you generate your BSP, all these text fragments are passed from the system to the OTR. The concept returned by the OTR is generated in the relevant place on your page and serves as the unique identifier for your text.
Continue as normal creating your BSP application.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/2a/6ad43aa654be55e10000000a11402f/content.htm
Edited by: anusha sabbineni on May 5, 2008 3:57 PM

Access multiple OTR texts at once

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I need to access multiple OTR texts in my Web Dynpro view at once,I know the method CL_WD_UTILITIES=>GET_OTR_TEXT_BY_ALIAS will retrieve one OTR text when alias is provided.
I need to pass multiple aliases to retrieve their respective OTR texts.
Can any one let me know how to get this done?
Thanks.
Regards,
Salma

Get all the OTR texts by passing all the alias...
I don't think we can get all the OTR texts by passing all the alias one time..If we does want all the texts, i think we can only use the Internal table..For example:
Loop at lt_table into ls_table.
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Endloop.
So sorry for my Joke..._..
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