Reading standard texts

Standard texts are read using the ‘READ_TEXT’ function module which takes a number of Inputs and returns the texts into an internal table. The main inputs for the FM are Text name, Language, Text ID and Text object and can be located using the following procedure.

Step 1 Display the desired text with transaction (i.e. ME23)


Step 2 Show long text for a particular text (i.e. Deliver To)


Step 3 Select ‘Header’ from the Goto menu (Goto->Header). The following screen should appear displaying info needed to retrieve text using the ‘READ_TEXT’ function module (Text name, Language, Text ID, Text object)