Changing nomenclature in R/3

Guixt allows you to change the R/3 nomenclature very easily. With one GuiXT line you are able to adapt hundreds of screens simultaneously.

For example, assume that the concept “material” is used exclusively in the sense “service” in your R/3 system, perhaps for a special user group only. You would like to replace the word “material” by the word “service” throughout.

Example:

Sap Guixt textreplace01 Changing nomenclature in R/3

Standard R/3 screen: “Material”

Sap Guixt textreplace02 Changing nomenclature in R/3

New nomenclature : “Service” instead of “Material” (5 replacements on this screen)

For this example you only need the GuiXT command

GlobalTextReplace “Material” “Service”

This applies to the following screen text types:

  • Field label
  • Screen title
  • Group box title
  • Pushbutton text and quickinfo
  • Message line
  • Menu items

but

  • not to normal text data displayed by the R/3 system, such as a description of a product
  • not to R/3 help texts

It is of no importance whether the word starts with a lower or upper case letter.

Replacement according to context

Sometimes, in a particular combination, a different replacement is necessary. For example, you want to replace “material” by “service”, but the combination “Material type” is to be replaced by the single word “Category”. This can be done as shown in the following example:

Sap Guixt textreplace11 Changing nomenclature in R/3

Standard R/3 screen: “Material”

Sap Guixt textreplace12 Changing nomenclature in R/3

New nomenclature : “Service” instead of “Material”

Sap Guixt textreplace13 Changing nomenclature in R/3

New nomenclature : “Service” instead of “Material” and “Category” instead of “Material type”

The GuiXT commands in this example:

GlobalTextReplace “Material type” “Category”
GlobalTextReplace “Material” “Service”

GuiXT searches out “Material type” first, because it is longer than “Material”.

Where to put the text replacement commands

Put the text replacement commands into the file esession.txt (where e means English; it would be fsession.txt for French and dsession.txt for German) in your script directory. This script file is executed after the logon screen, exactly once for each R/3 session.

Avoid putting the commands into the file elogon.txt. They will not be executed if the user opens an alternative mode.

Changing nomenclature in R/3