Recently I created a new Launchpad customizing menu for use
in a custom MSS teamview scenario.
The project was put on hold for some time due to other
priorities and after I picked up the project again it was time to put
translation to the menu and menu-items.
However this seemed not as straightforward as I thought. I
kept trying to launch the translations from the LPD_CUST transaction itself but
my menu items wouldn't appear.
Cause : Seemed my menu was not assigned to a
namespace/package. So only option I had was to save it under another name
during which assignment to a package was possible, as described in OSS note 1702081 . Once the
menu was assigned to a package and a transport request the translation was easy
since we could just select the contents of the transport as content to
translate.
SE63 > Translation ABAP Objects > Transport Object
Transport Entry of object : R3TR LPDC ZHRW_PTLHRD00000008
The data dictionary table containing the launchpad short
texts and translations is APB_LPD_SH_TEXTS. Key to this table is again
namespace + textkey :
