WINGUI persona limitations and is it still suggested for any flavor development

[phani_konduru]

Hi Experts,

I have gone through the SAP note https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2080071 and I see many limitations on WINGUI personas.

I need your expert advice here. Is there a clear direction on what kind of flavors we can create using WINGUI? For example: this WINGUI is only suggested if we need to remove few fields from a transaction and not for defaulting/validating anything on the screen.

It is hard to build a flavor using WEBGUI editor and see not working in WINGUI for each script/input field/drop boxes.

We developed few flavors in WEBUI and they are very slow and users are not happy with it. Same with slipstream.

We did increase memory size and took all the performance measurements. But still no luck.

Please guide me.

Thanks,

Phani.

[tamas_hoznek · Accepted solution]

The Windows GUI will never have a Personas editor, so the only way is to build flavors in webgui, then test rendering them parallel in WinGUI and make any adjustments as necessary. In this case you don't have a WYSIWYG editor, due to the slightly different rendering and scaling, but it should be close enough so it's workable.

You can create any kind of flavors that don't bump into one of the limitations explained in the referenced note. Mostly, these limitations are due to technical reasons. This is especially true for scripting, since the old javascript implementation in WinGUI has a lot less features than the one in the browser's scripting engine. It is also important to have the most recent SAP GUI release and patch when using Personas flavors. If you have an older release and/or patch level, you are bound to see more problems.

As for flavors being slow in webgui: the kernel release / patch level play a role here. If at all possible, try to use kernel release 753 and latest stack kernel patch at least. Lower kernels have worse webgui performance.

However, Slipstream Engine should be significantly faster in those older kernel releases than webgui, so if that is not the case, then there may be some other problem, like a generally underpowered or not properly tuned system / ITS or something like that.