What are text elements

[former_member1193869]

Hi,

Can u brief me what r text elements and what are irs uses?

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Text Elements

Text elements cover any descriptive text that appears on the selection screen or output screen of an ABAP/4 program.

You can store these text elements outside the program in language-dependent text pools. Your program automatically uses the text elements of the user's logon language.

You can create and maintain text elements without changing the program coding. You can create standard text pools, which you can copy from program to program. If you consequently work with text symbols only and do not use string literals in WRITE statements, your program becomes language-independent. Only the text elements from the original language text pool must be translated to other languages.

The translation of text elements is fully supported by the ABAP/4 workbench. From an existing text pool for the original language, a translator can create the text pools for different other languages.

Maintaining Text Elements

Text element maintenance is a tool in the ABAP Workbench that makes it easier to maintain program texts in different languages. Any text that a program displays on the screen can be maintained as a text element.

Also check this SAP link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/9609f6eb0711d194d100a0c94260a5/content.htm