If your business process requires GUI scripting, this must be turned on—on your local computer and on the server. Contact your Automate administrator for more information.
If you are the Automate administrator, here are the instructions for turning on GUI scripting.
Enable scripting on the server side
SAP GUI scripting is turned off by default on SAP systems. To enable scripting, a Basis administrator must enable the parameter RZ11 and users must enable GUI scripting in their SAP GUI.
Both scripting support and the SAP GUI Logon pad are installed by default when the Windows SAP GUI client is installed. If they have not been installed, reinstall SAP GUI.
Enable the RZ11 parameter
- In SAP GUI, go to transaction RZ11.
- In the Param. Name box, type sapgui/user_scripting, and then click Display.
- Click Change Value.
- In the New value box, type TRUE, and then click the Save button.
Enable scripting in SAP GUI
- Click Customize
, and then click Options. - In the SAP GUI options dialog box, click Scripting, and then select Enable Scripting.
- Click OK.
GUI scripting on SAP GUI 720
To enable GUI scripting for SAP GUI 720, a few parameters must be set on the server side. These parameters do not necessarily exist on all SAP systems by default. If these variables are found in transaction RZ11, they must be set as follows:
sapgui/user_scripting_set_readonly = false
sapgui/user_scripting_disable_recording = false
sapgui/user_scripting_force_notification = false
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sapgui/user_scripting_disable_recording |
If this parameter is set to TRUE, script playback is possible, but recording is not permitted. |
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sapgui/user_scripting_force_notification |
If this parameter is set to TRUE, a notification is always displayed at the front end, regardless of the client options. Notification refers to the message box that appears before record and run for attaching to GUI scripting session. |
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sapgui/user_scripting_set_readonly |
If this parameter is set to TRUE, scripts may act only on read-only user interface elements. |
Enable GUI scripting for SAP GUI 720
- To open the SAP GUI options page, click Control Panel, click SAP Front End, and then click SAP GUI Configuration.
- Click Accessibility and Scripting.
- Under User Settings, click Enable scripting. Select any other options you want:
- Click to be notified when a script is being attached to SAP GUI as you record or run a Transaction script.
- Click to be notified when a script opens an SAP connection.
Windows scripting
With Windows scripting, which is enabled through GUI scripting, Studio Transaction records the Windows file selector dialog box in transactions that allow files to be attached. The file path is Windows_Dialog_file with the default value as untitled. Transaction sees only the dialog box; the name is added from the corresponding field in the Excel file.
A file name field is always recorded in the Mapper, whether a file was chosen in the dialog box or not. If you don’t want to upload a file, disable the dialog box fields.
If you want to upload a file, map the file-location field to an Excel column. When you run the script, the field must be mapped to the Excel column you want in the Mapper. Transaction selects the file from the specified location and creates the attachment.