Translations
Hi Glynn do you have any tips on translations of texts?
This is a big area, however, a little time saver can be to use the unicode translator transaction SE63 which is a shortcut to all texts which need to be maintained and translated. Always check oss note – 0585116 for more info on using SE63.
Dont forget you can use SO10 to translate standard texts as well.
Function Modules for SD Reports and Smartforms
These function modules are great to get the information used to populate Smartforms and reports in SD.
Remember you can access the data with transaction SE37 and use the test/execute icon [F8].
Text Determination – Reference Duplicate Copy
In SAP sales and distribution processing, there are two options for copying a text to documents:
- a) Duplicating text
b) Referencing text
Whether you want to duplicate or reference a text, use text Customizing in transaction VOTX or VOTXN (as of Release 4.70) for each desired text type in the different text determination procedures.
In Release 4.6C or lower, the “Reference/duplicate” (TTXER-REDUP) indicator is called “Copy”. As of Release 4.70 it is called “Reference/duplicate” (TTXERN-REDUP). Read more 
