Advantages of SAP
GUI
*Single GUI to access to all the SAP Application
components like ERP, CRM, SCM, XI, BI and SRM.
*We can login with our logon language i.e.
specify the language during logon. Same GUI is allowed to login with different
languages.
*GUI is user friendly to create favorites,
start up transactions to reduce the dialog steps
Dialog
Step: It is mouse click, keyboard
stroke (enter), function keys like f1(field help), f4(list of possible
values), f7(display), f8(execute), f3(back to earlier screen). each dialog step
consumes an average of 600ms.(It is an SAP Standard. Threshold value and 1000ms
for ECC6.0 systems)
*GUI is downward compatible to support the
all the SAP Application components which are below the current GUI Version.
Example:GUI7.0 may not support the components
that are build on 7.10/7.20/7.30 but
SAP GUI 7.0 can handle 7.00,640,620,46D,45A etc.
i.e; higher Version GUI Supports lower
version SAP Components GUI should be the latest version in the SAP landscape.
*User parameters are defined for the
frequently keyed inputs. The values are populated automatically in that text
box based on user logon which reduces the user inputs during run time.
Example: A user belonging to the sales organization,
division, plant, sales area should get all the values by default while creating
sales order(VA01) etc.
use SU01--> to specify the user parameters
with parameter id and value.
user master maintenance
getting a parameter ID: On the screen text
element (text box)--->press f1--->click on
technical information--get the parameter id.
similarly press f4 to get the parameter
value.
Note: Parameters are user specific only...
*Users can be specified with a role based
menu or with a SAP Easy access menu to reduce the GUI load.
*SAP GUI is intelligent to determine the least
loaded server when more than one instance (application server) is configured.
it gets the information from the message server. SAP uses logon group/server group concept to
perform the load balancing.
*It provides access across the low speed
connections and displays the screens with out graphics/logo which consume more
network traffic. (low speed/ high speed) are used to suppress the GUI.
*It provides command window to navigate to
the respective functionality and minimizes dialog steps. SAP is a transaction based/menu
based system where transactions reduces the dialog steps and menu based
increases the dialog steps but provides the complete functionality based on
module.
*SAP provides ergonomically designed GUI to
configure GUI font size, colors, logos, and visual design using SAP custom
layout etc.
*SAP provides various shortcuts in command
window
.(/n)
to navigate to a transaction from existing transaction window
.(/o)
to open a new transaction window
.(/ex)
to exit the screen
.(/nex)
to exit GUI
*GUI entries are controlled by using saplogon.ini/ sapmsg.ini/ saproute.ini/ sapdoccd.ini
these files reside in windows directory where we can configure one GUI and copy
these files to the other systems easily.
Go to windows directory to display the SAP
GUI initialization parameters
*GUI provides default help options (f1
help,f4 help, system help and library help)
*The character set can be changed to suite
various language and printers.
*SAP GUI supports digital certificates/single
sign on so that user can login without any password (NTLM or Kerberos
authentication)
