R12 Receivables - Transaction Workbech (Translated Desc)

Question

When creating invoices in the Transaction Workbench (Receivables) we are finding that sometimes the ‘Translated Desc’ field (on the invoice lines) is being populated (the user insists it was not populated by them!), but this does not happen in all instances.
Does anyone know what would cause this filed to be populated?
Regards
Carl

Answer 1

Carl
This happens because this reason:
If you have your customer locations (hz_locations) storing the language in there, form uses that language to get the translated description into that field for that language. You can use this SQL to find that:
SELECT loc.language
FROM hz_cust_acct_sites acct_site ,
hz_party_sites party_site,
hz_locations loc,
hz_cust_site_uses site,
ra_customer_trx ct
WHERE ct.customer_Trx_id = &l_cust_trx_id
AND ct.bill_to_site_use_id = site.site_use_id
AND site.cust_acct_site_id = acct_site.cust_acct_site_id
and acct_site.party_site_id = party_site.party_site_id
and loc.location_id = party_site.location_id;
If this returns the a row then check this:
SELECT mtl.description
FROM mtl_system_items_tl mtl
WHERE mtl.inventory_item_id = &l_inv_item_id
AND mtl.organization_id = &l_so_org_id
AND mtl.language = <Language from above>;
This description gets defaulted into the form. If there is language stored in the customer locations then it assumes your default language, hence no translation. The same can be seen for the memo lines as well. I tested this in my system and this theory proved correct so far.
Just wanted to add, you can find the language in the screen at customer address level in Characteristics tab in 11i and in R12 in Account site details region of the Account Site Information.
Thanks
Nagamohan
Edited by: Nagamohan on Dec 23, 2009 11:19 AM