ABAP Form Translator

✅ Status: Release (1.2.0)

Open Source Contribution: This project is community-driven and Open Source! 🚀
If you spot a bug or have an idea for a cool enhancement, your contributions are more than welcome. Feel free to open an Issue or submit a Pull Request.

A lightweight, dynamic runtime translation tool for SAP forms. It decouples text management from form development, allowing functional consultants or users to maintain labels via a simple database table (SM30,Business Configuration,RAP Application), bypassing the complex standard SE63 workflow.

Table of contents

1. License
2. Contributors-Developers
3. Key Benefits
4. Design Goals-Features
5. Usage

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Contributors-Developers

The repository was created by George Drakos.

Key Benefits

• No more SE63: Forget about the painful standard translation process for forms.
• Zero Hardcoding: Keep your form logic clean. No more IF sy-langu = 'D'. text = 'Kunde'. ENDIF.
• Hot-Swap Texts: Change a label description in Production without a Transport Request.
• Generic: Works with any ABAP structure or Form interface using RTTI.
• Performance: Optimized with table buffering to ensure zero impact on print times.
• Unit Tested: Includes built-in ABAP Unit tests.
• Fiori Elements App built entirely with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) for maintaining form translations

Design Goals-Features

• Install via ABAPGit
• ABAP Cloud/Clean Core compatibility.Passed SCI check variant S4HANA_READINESS_2023 and ABAP_CLOUD_READINESS
• Unit Tested

Usage

In your Adobe / Smartform Driver Program / Print Program

1. Define a structure for your labels/texts in the form Global Definitions or the Driver Program.
2. Populate it with default values (optional).
3. Call the translator before calling the form Function Module(for smartforms).

DATA: BEGIN OF gs_labels,
        title        TYPE string,
        footer_note  TYPE string,
        customer_lbl TYPE string,
      END OF gs_labels.

" 1.Initialize (Optional defaults)
gs_labels-title = 'Invoice'.

" 2.Translate dynamically based on Language and DB Configuration
NEW zcl_form_translation( )->translate_form(
  EXPORTING
    iv_formname      = 'ZINVOICE_FORM'   " Key in ZABAP_FORM_TRANS
    iv_langu         = p_langu           " e.g., NAST-SPRAS
  CHANGING
    cs_form_elements = gs_labels ).         " The structure to be translated

" 3. The gs_labels structure now contains the translated texts from ZDB_FORM_TRANS
"    Pass this structure to your Smartform / Adobe Form interface.