SRM - Contract management - product category - SRM 5.0

Hello,
The product category was set as mandatory field in the contract management.
By creating a contract or modifying an existing one, a product category must be selected.
When I'm connected in English, i can use product category search function, and all the product category are populated.
I'm so able to select a product category in the contract
But when I'm connected in French, it is impossible to use the search function because no values are populated.
I already check the transaction COMM_HIERARCHY, but English and French are already set.
Thank you for help.

1. GOA+LOcal contract = Central contratct.pls coreect me
:- Basically Central Contracts are created in SRM and copied to ECC. Then after you can refer that contract as GOA.
2. When the central contract is created in SRM is it dcistributed as Contract or Scheduling agreeemtn in ECC.
:- It's distributed as Contract.
3. Also, in SRM 7.0 is it possible to create contract directly in ecc from the sourcing cockpit.
:- No; it's not possible. You have to create contract in SRM first then you can distribute it to ECC.

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1)
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/02/faeb38d391aa6ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/55/4af548688211d4977e0004ac962ee6/frameset.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/43/2022b83fbc2be8e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/3a/d6ad4240adb111e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/42/151D4193BB73ADE10000000A114B54/content.htm
http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid21_gci1245134,00.html
http://www.infosys.com/industries/electronics_hightech/ViewPoint_Order_Management.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/c5/13e53c759d4d19a7e20d9d32569abe/frameset.htm
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