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text-elements: Translatable text

Read and write translatable text resources (symbols, selections, headings) for source-bearing objects.

Related guides: edit-source.

2 commands.

abapctl text-elements get

READ IDEMP

Read text elements from an ABAP source-bearing object

OptionRequiredDescription
object (positional)yesobject (object/name argument)
--connectionnoconnection profile name
--categorynotext-element category
--adt-typenoADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, CLAS/OC, FUGR/F). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types
abapctl text-elements get ZCL_FOO

abapctl text-elements put

DESTR

Write text elements to an ABAP source-bearing object (lock → PUT → unlock; --activate opt-in)

read-only with --dry-run

OptionRequiredDescription
object (positional)yesobject (object/name argument)
--categoryyestext-element category
--fileyespath to text-elements body file (key=value plaintext)
--connectionnoconnection profile name
--adt-typenoADT object type (e.g., PROG/P, CLAS/OC, FUGR/F)
--transportnotransport request number
--activatenoactivate the parent object after writing (opt-in; not required for text-elements)
--dry-runnoshow what would be uploaded without writing
abapctl text-elements put ZCL_FOO --dry-run