Deactivate SAP menu or All user menus
You may have a requirement to control your user navigation in SAP, either you may wish to create your own area menus, or you may wish to restrict a user specific menu from being created.
You can deactivate the menus for the entire system by creating or changing records in the global settings table SSM_CUST in the view maintenance transaction SM30.
- To globally deactivate the SAP menu, enter a record “SAP_MENU_OFF” “YES” in upper-case letters.
- To globally deactivate all user menus enter a record “ALL_USER_MENUS_OFF” “YES” in upper-case letters.
(Note the value “CUSTOMER_MENU_OFF” is obsolete and has no effect.)
For more information refer to OSS Note 380029.
–> Dont forget you can use transaction SSM2 to set which area menu in a system is to be used as the SAP menu.
Change SAP menu
Do you know you can set the default area menu that all users will go to when opening a new session, system wide. This is beneficial should you wish to create a specific area menu for your company. If no setting is made, the standard entry point (area menu S000) is used.
The SAP menu entry point is specified in the transaction SSM2.
So which system is connected?
I work on a large landscape of 110 SAP systems (not clients). Every now and then someone asks if a specific system is connected to another, there is no way I can remember which systems are connected. Depending on what system they are referring to one may be able to execute a system specific transaction. However as a dependable alternative one may simply use SM59 and view the connected systems.
Here you can view the following connections:
- R/3 connections
- HTTP Connections to R/3 System
- Internal connections
- Logical destinations
- TCP/IP connections
- Connections via ABAP/4 driver
Tip – Depending on your settings (If the logon data is saved on the Logon/security tab) you may even be able to login to a connected system remotely from within SM59, simply select the R/3 connection and selecting “Remote logon” button.
Efficiency in SAP with Parameters
Using SAP as a consultant or super user you may find yourself always entering the same data over and over again. You may save time by having the system automatically populate these fields. Some common culprits are:
- Sales organisation
- Distribution Channel
- Division
You can set the value automatically for any field that has a parameter by settings its value in your user profile. To do this first locate the fields parameter, by selecting the field and then selecting F1 (Help) followed by F9 (Technical Information).
Some common parameters are:
- Sales organisation VBAK-VKORG – parameter = VKO
- Distribution Channel VBAK-VTWEG - parameter = VTW
- Division VBAK-SPART - parameter = SPA
Proceed to your user profile, either with SU3 or SU01 and enter the Parameter ID and Parameter Value in the “Parameter” tab.
Now each time you access that field the value will automatically be defaulted.
Default SAP User SAP*
The User SAP* is a “hard-coded” user that does not have a user master record in the delivery system, it is not subject to any authorization checks (and therefore has all authorizations), and has an unchangeable default password.
The User SAP* is not treated like a “normal” user until a user master record is created for it. Once the user master record exists, SAP* is subject to authorization checks and can be assigned a different password.
In most systems people assign the user all authorizations.
Some default passwords used for SAP* are:
06071992
PASS
But in most cases these should have already been changed in any system/client you are working in. However as the password is system and client specific it could be that the password change has not been carried out in a specific client, for example the SAP Earlywatch client of “066″. So if you feel like experimenting you could try access client “066″ with user “SAP*” and password “PASS “.
How to change Servers on a System
So you login to server X on a system and you would like to move to server Y on the same system without logging off and back on again – How do you do it?
You can do this a number of ways – the method I follow is:
- Go to transaction SM51. (see server overview)
- Double click on a server to see the processes.
- Then open a new session, you will now be on the new server you double clicked.
Be careful NOT to use the back arrow from the work process overview or else you will move back to the old server.
Set System Time Out
Question - Is it possible to set a user specific Time Out?
Answer - The system time out is set at the system level not user level, by maintaining the parameter value in transaction RZ10 for a specific profile and version under “Extended Maintenance”.
Maintain the parameter – rdisp/gui_auto_logout with a value that is in seconds, for example 600 = 10 minutes.
Great SAP Tip – Specify Default Directory
Did you know that you can specify the default download location for files?
No longer do you need to download to or navigate away from the sapworkdir whenever you wish to download files from SAP. Simply use transaction SO21.
Field entries previously used
Q – How do you get the system to prompt old field entries when you select a field to enter data?
A – use Customizing of local layout Icon (looks like a rainbow on top toolbar on right most side.) (or press ALT+F12) then on the Local Data tab set History as immediatly.
How to turn history of fields on and off
Q – How do I turn history of values used in fields on and off – for example, when I login my user ID is showing on the login pad, as a list of old values I placed in the field, so I can simply select a value last used, where my colleagues pc, and login pad does not have a list of last used values?
A – This is controlled by the setting on the SAP GUI login. It is related to bandwidth and performance. If you select the system ID, then right click and select properties, then select advanced, select “low connection speed” to turn off the list of last used values. Or de-select the “low connection speed” to switch on the last used values.
