Translating Menu Hyper Items

When translating menu hyper items, you must translate both the long and short text descriptions. Each menu hyper item also has a keyboard shortcut, or hot key, and, if a menu hyper item is associated with the text descriptions, this key must be included in the translation. This table describes the parts of a menu hyper item:

Menu Hyper Item Component	Description
Menu hyper items short text descriptions	Short text descriptions are the abbreviated menu options that access applications.
Menu hyper item long text descriptions	Long descriptions provide an unabbreviated description of menu hyper items.
Hot keys	Hot keys are the keyboard shortcuts used to select menu options. Users can select a menu option by pressing Alt + (hot key). A letter in the menu option acts as the hot key and is indicated by & (ampersand) preceding the letter. For example, the menu hyper short description File (&F) indicates that the hot key for the File option is F.

Note: If you have the literal & (ampersand) in the translated text, you must enter && (two ampersands) to represent the symbol. If you do not enter && (two ampersands), the software represents the translation as a hot key.

When you select a menu hyper item, both the menu hyper short and menu hyper long text descriptions appear in the common area of the Form Design Aid Text form.

To translate menu hyper items:

1. From the Translation Applications menu (GH791), select either Senior Translations or Junior Translations, depending on whether you are a senior or junior translator, and then F79750: Form Design Aid (FDA).

2. On Work with Form Design Aid Text, complete these fields and click Find:

   • Product Code

   • Status

   • Language

   • Status Details

     This option enables you to see all the details for the items in the detail area. To return to a summarized view, clear this option.

3. Select an item in the detail area and click Select.

4. On Form Design Aid Text, select a menu hyper item in the menu tree.

   Both the short and long text descriptions appear in the common area.

5. Type a translation for the menu hyper item short description.

6. Type a translation for the menu hyper item long description.

7. Click OK.

   When you click OK, the system saves the translation, updates the status, and displays the next item of the chosen status in the Source data field.

   When you click Save, the system saves the translation and updates the status, but does not move on to the next item in the list.