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Applies to: SAP 4.6 and above. For more information, visit the
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Summary This tutorial explains about using SAP GuiXT tool which
comes installed with SAP. With SAP GuiXT, we can modify any SAP
transaction and change its look and feel without changing the
standard SAP coding.
Author: Ribhu Ahuja
Company: TCS Tata Consultancy Services
Created on: 22 April 2009
Author Bio Ribhu Ahuja is working as a SAP HR ABAP and Workflow
consultant for TCS since August 2006.
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Table of Contents To start with:
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Configuring GuiXT Tool
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Putting custom image on Logon
Screen...........................................................................................................13
Changing look and feel of logon screen and defaulting certain
values
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Modifying SAP Easy Access Screen
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Adding a button on logon screen and calling a transaction on click
of the same.............................................17 Changing
look and feel of transaction SE11
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Graying or disabling of certain input
fields........................................................................................................27
Displaying Custom HTML help
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Related
Content................................................................................................................................................29
Disclaimer and Liability
Notice..........................................................................................................................30
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Lets start with SAP GUIXT GuiXT is a client-server based
software technology that provides user interface customization
solutions to SAP applications. SAP GUIXT is a tool provided with
SAP that enables firms to tailor SAP transaction screens to the
narrower requirements of specific jobs within the organization
while leaving essential SAP coding (ABAP and Dynpros) untouched.
This technology design significantly reduces development and
testing. Users of GuiXT Solutions report greatly improved
productivity and accuracy, while at the same time reducing training
and support costs.
It takes existing functionality in SAP t-codes and allows us to
redesign the layout and business process to match the customer
needs. One important thing to be noted is that it already comes
installed with SAP GUI. Since it comes with SAP GUI, GuiXT can help
us customize just about any transaction in SAP.
To start with: First of all, we need to enable scripting on
front end and on the server in order to use the GUIXT tool. To
enable scripting on the front end, use the transaction RZ11. Logon
to R3 and open transaction RZ11 and put the value
sapgui/user_scripting in the parameter box and click on the
button as shown:
On the next screen, click on the button:
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A pop up box appears. Change the value of the last field New
value to TRUE as shown and click on the save button.
We are done with enabling scripting on front end. Now we will
proceed for enabling scripting on server. Come back to the SAP easy
access screen and click on the icon on the right hand corner and
choose options.
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Click on the scripting tab and check all the check boxes in user
settings and then click on OK button as shown:
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Once all this is done, we may activate the GUIXT. The standard
GuiXT tool comes as a feature in SAP system installations. There
are actually 4 components which come in GuiXT tool GuiXT, Input
Assistant, Viewer and Designer, out of which, licenses have to be
purchased for viewer and Designer tools in order to use them. This
tutorial teaches about the GUIXT tool only. It is to be noted that
these scripts run on individual machines. That means on each user
machine, we have to activate the GUIXT, in order to run these
scripts as shown below:
Click on the icon on the main screen
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After this, click on the Activate GuiXT link so that it is
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The moment we activate the GuiXT, it opens the GuiXT tool
window.
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Configuring GuiXT Tool When running the GuiXT for the first
time, we have to make the profile settings. Click on the profile
button on the GuiXT tool:
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It opens a popup, where we have to define the locations of
various scripts:
The first box is Scripts 1 box - . Similarly there are Scripts
2, Scripts 3 and Scripts 4 boxes.
Here we specify various directories. They can be on our personal
PC, on the local network, on http-servers, ftp-servers or in the
SAP Web Repository Directory.
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These are the directories that are searched for GuiXT scripts.
The search sequence is always Scripts4, then Scripts3, then
Scripts2, then Scripts1. We can, for example, have company-wide
scripts in Scripts1, and some scripts of our own in Scripts2.
For this tutorial, let us create a directory named guixt in c
drive and place it in Scripts 1 box as shown above.
The History box, is the directory used by the Input Assistant.
The history directory should be on the user's personal pc.
For this tutorial, let us create a directory named guixt history
in c drive and place it in History box as shown above.
Rest all other settings of the profile can be made by pressing
F1 help button. After making these necessary settings, let us click
on OK button on the popup and let us log off from the system.
Before logging off, let us note one thing when we click on and
see the options, the Script Recording and Playback option is
currently grayed or inactive as shown:
Let us log off and again open the r3 logon screen. As we do
that, we notice the following:
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First, the GuiXT tool opens automatically along with the various
screen elements present on the
screen which are client, language, Password and User. Secondly,
we see a scripting button on the screen, which is an indication
that the scripting is now enabled and working. Let us now
again click on the button on the right hand top of the screen.
Doing so, we notice the following:
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We notice that the Script Recording and Playback option is no
more grayed out and is active. We can use it to record any sequence
of screens.
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Putting custom image on Logon Screen Let us modify the logon
screen using the GuiXT scripting tool. Let us put an image on the
logon screen and let us change the layout of login and
password.
First of all let us put an image say ribz.jpg in the root
directory c:\guixt:
Now we will call this image in our script. Open the GuiXT tool
and click on the Script button:
As we click on the script button, it opens up a notepad file for
scripting and gives a popup:
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Cannot find C:\guixt\elogon.txt file. Click on the yes button in
order to create the script file for the logon screen. It creates
the file named elogon.txt.
Now, in the notepad file named elogon.txt, write the following
command line.
Image (4,40) (10,65) "ribz.jpg"
It would look like this:
Save the file and close it. Now, on the GuiXT tool, click on the
refresh button:
As we do that, our image appears on the screen as shown
below:
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If the image do not appears, just logoff, close all the screens
and reopen the R/3 logon screen. The image would show up then.
Changing look and feel of logon screen and defaulting certain
values Now, let us change the look and feel of the logon screen. In
the GuiXT tool, click on the Script button and paste the following
code in the elogon.txt file:
Image (4,40) (10,65) "ribz.jpg"
box (1,0) (4,39) "Please enter user id and password"
pos F[User] (2,1)
pos F[Password] (3,1)
set F[Client] "800"
set F[Language] "EN"
del F[Client]
del F[Language]
The screen elements available to us were User, Password, Client
and language. We have rearranged the fields User and Password in
the above script and defaulted the values of Client and Language
and deleted them from the screen after defaulting them. It results
in the following logon screen:
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Let us now give the username and password and login into the R3
system:
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Modifying SAP Easy Access Screen Let us now modify the SAP Easy
Access screen. On the GuiXT tool, click on the Script button again.
It gives a warning again after opening the notepad file for SAP
Easy access screen. GuiXT writes a notepad file for every screen in
SAP so for the Easy access, it is saplsmrt_navigation.e0100.txt.
Click on yes button on the warning:
Now, we see that the only screen element available to us is
[IMAGE_CONTAINER]. Let us reposition this image container and
insert an image on the screen.
Write the following script:
pos X[IMAGE_CONTAINER] X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]+(0,15)
Image (1,1) (5,10) "ribz.jpg"
After refreshing, we see the following SAP Easy Access
screen:
Adding a button on logon screen and calling a transaction on
click of the same Now, Let us put a button on the screen and call a
particular transaction on the click of the same:
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For this, write the following script for SAP Easy Access
Screen:
pos X[IMAGE_CONTAINER] X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]+(0,30)
Image (1,1) (5,10) "ribz.jpg"
pushbutton (12,1) "abap dictionary" "/NSE11"
As we refresh the GuiXT tool, we see the following modification
in the SAP Easy Access Menu:
Once we click on this button, it opens SE11 transaction
code.
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Let us slightly change the button layout. Let us modify the size
of the button and add an icon on the same. We write the following
script:
pos X[IMAGE_CONTAINER] X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]+(0,30)
Image (1,1) (5,10) "ribz.jpg"
pushbutton (12,1) "@3B\QOpen SE11@abap dictionary" "/NSE11"
size=(3,14)
Hence we see the following screen:
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The 2-letter code for the icons can be found in transaction
ICON.
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Changing look and feel of transaction SE11 Let us now proceed to
SE11 screen. Suppose we have a requirement that we want to give the
user, the options to open tables MARA and PA0001 only. This can be
very well achieved by writing a script for SE11 screen. Let us
first of all see the screen elements available in the GuiXT
tool:
We would want to delete all the fields and just give the user
the option of table MARA and PA0001 in the form of radio buttons.
This can be achieved by the following script:
// create a box offset (0,1) box (0,0) (5,60) "Table to be
displayed" // set radio buttons for database table radiobutton
(2,2) "MARA" F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] "MARA" radiobutton (3,2) "PA0001"
F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL ] "PA0001" // Default the table name as MARA
Default F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] "MARA" // Delete unnecessary fields del
F[RSRD1-DDTYPE_VAL] del F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-TYMA_VAL] del
F[RSRD1-SHMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-VIMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-DOMA_VAL] del
F[RSRD1-ENQU_VAL] del R[Database table] del R[View] del R[Data
Type] del R[Domain] del R[Lock object] del R[Search help] del
R[Type Group]
Thus when we run this script, we see the following screen
modification in SE11:
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When user chooses radio button MARA and clicks on the display
button, table MARA is shown:
When he chooses PA0001 and clicks display, Table PA0001 is
shown:
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Let us now come back on SE11 main screen and let us put Images
instead of buttons (Display, Change and Create). In our
requirement, we will create an image link for Display and delete
the other two buttons so the user can only display the tables and
he does not have the option of change and create. For this, let us
first of all see the OK Code of Display button. Click on the
Display button on the screen and while keeping the button clicked,
press the F1 key and it shows us the ok code of Display which is
SHOW:
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Now, let us add the following code to our script:
Box (20,30) (28,50) "Display Table" Image (20.5,30.5) (28,50)
"ribz.jpg" "Input=OK:SHOW" del P[Create] del P[Change] del
P[Display]
So the complete script becomes like:
// create a box offset (0,1) box (0,0) (5,60) "Table to be
displayed" // set radio buttons for database table radiobutton
(2,2) "MARA" F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] "MARA" radiobutton (3,2) "PA0001"
F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL ] "PA0001" // Default the table name as MARA
Default F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] "MARA" // Delete unnecessary fields del
F[RSRD1-DDTYPE_VAL] del F[RSRD1-TBMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-TYMA_VAL] del
F[RSRD1-SHMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-VIMA_VAL] del F[RSRD1-DOMA_VAL] del
F[RSRD1-ENQU_VAL] del R[Database table] del R[View] del R[Data
Type] del R[Domain] del R[Lock object] del R[Search help] del
R[Type Group] // Create a box and add an image + display the table
when user clicks the image Box (20,30) (28,50) "Display Table"
Image (20.5,30.5) (28,50) "ribz.jpg" "Input=OK:SHOW" // Delete the
buttons del P[Create] del P[Change] del P[Display]
The output of the script is as below:
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When the user clicks the image, it opens the particular table
chosen (MARA or PA0001).
Now, let us add some informative text on the screen. For this,
add the following to our script:
// Inserting Text box (10,20) (18,50) "User service" text
(11,22) "SAP GuiXT is very simple"
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This results in the following screen output:
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Graying or disabling of certain input fields Let us delete the
complete script and refresh the screen so we get back our original
SE11 screen. Now, suppose we want to make the input field Lock
Object grayed. For this, write the following code in the
script:
NoInput F[RSRD1-ENQU_VAL]
This results in the following output:
There are various other features and options available.
Displaying Custom HTML help Let us display a custom made html
page as a help on Lock object. For this, first of all, place an
html file named SAP guixt Tutorial.html in C:/guixt folder. After
this, write the following code in the script of SE11 screen:
mark F[RSRD1-ENQU_VAL] viewHelp="C:\guixt\SAP Guixt
Tutorial.html"
After this, our screen is like as below:
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When we click on the link, we see the HTML help page SAP guixt
tutorial.html:
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Applies to:SummaryAuthor BioTable of ContentsLets start with SAP
GUIXT To start with:Configuring GuiXT ToolPutting custom image on
Logon ScreenChanging look and feel of logon screen and defaulting
certain valuesModifying SAP Easy Access ScreenAdding a button on
logon screen and calling a transaction on click of the sameChanging
look and feel of transaction SE11Graying or disabling of certain
input fields Displaying Custom HTML helpRelated ContentDisclaimer
and Liability Notice