SAP Note 22633 - Menu with empty or incorrect dynamic text

Symptom:

A dynamic menu or function text is displayed as question mark (??...?), remains empty or is incorrect.

Cause and prerequisites

Two possible causes are conceivable:

1. The field name which contains the dynamic function or menu text is written incorrectly.

2. The current surface status, the current screen as well as the ABAP program segment just executed can belong to different programs. However, the field for a dynamic text is exclusively searched for in the program to which the status belongs.

Solution
Check, whether the field name is written correctly and whether the field exists in the program that the GUI status belongs to. You can display this program at runtime. Via the menu option System -> Status you branch to the screen "System: Status". There you find the entries "Program (GUI)" and "GUI status" under "SAP data"/"Repository data".

Additional key words

"SET PF-STATUS"