From the SAP initial screen for initial screen of the application
Applications, transactions and reports
After logging in SAP R / 3 will take you to the SAP initial screen. In the navigation pane, you will see a SAP Easy Access Menu. With using this menu you can call R / 3 transactions. After calling a transaction (application) to move into the application layer. Typically you will see the first screen of the application, the initial screen of
Application.
The term refers to the R / 3 application either on a application component (such as Materials Management (MM) or Financial Accounting) (FI)) or to a function at the application level (transaction application. In ASAP (Accelerated SAP) he calls an executable program, e.g. Microsoft Excel.
A function at the application level (transaction, application) is therefore characterized in that it has a transaction code. Each of these functions menu can be accessed not only via the SAP Easy Access but also using the transaction code. We go out in this
Closer a chapter. Every application (ie any function at the application level) includes a set of application functions, such as Save, Delete or marking.
The functions at the application level (transaction, application) one distinguishes dialog transactions and report transactions. Dialog transactions consist of a sequence of screen images, with their help the user with the application of "communicates. The shift to next screen image of a sequence is called a dialog step. Each dialog step requires a screen (dynamic program).
• The screen layout
• the field properties
• the flow logic
The screens display images are generated by the SAP terminology also often referred to as screens. Each transaction has a dialog a transaction code. A part of this transaction code was already in SAP R / 2 used.
A report (report) is an ABAP / 4 program of type "executable program”. The process usually takes a report from data input (in the first picture, called for reports selection screen) on the corresponding data to a data output (list). For each report, it is possible to define a transaction code and a selection screen to but there are also reports without a transaction code and without the selection screen. All reports can be accessed through the report name.
The term "transaction" refers to a function in R / 3 either at the application level (dialog transaction or transaction report) or - strictly speaking - in a dialog transaction. If this book transaction is mentioned, other than reports, we use the
Definition dialog transaction.
SAP Easy Access
SAP menu and user menu
SAP Easy Access offers (to facilitate and simplify the daily work) the possibility of a personalized (user-specific) entry into the SAP system. A user menu is usually by the system administration established. It contains a specified field of work (eg a user from the accounts receivable), all of the normal daily work required entries (transactions, reports, or Web addresses).
By the system administrator has been no specific menu for your application down, then you see when you sign the SAP menu, which considerably more than the user menu contains menu items. Even with a user menu, you can usually in the SAP initial screen the SAP menu. You can do this on menu bar MENU | MENU SAP.
Each SAP Easy Access menu has a hierarchical tree structure. The elements such a structure is called a node, node with no successor called terminal nodes. The leaf nodes of an SAP Easy Access menu, applications (Transactions), all other nodes are menus. Company-Specific there is a possibility, for example Add web addresses as leaf nodes. |
