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what happened to list and tree display views in SAP GUI 750 PL2

bruce_hartley
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I installed SAP GUI for windows 7.50 PL 2 and I noticed that list and tree display views for all of the systems is gone and only explorer mode is left. Is there something that I can do to bring them back - I really liked list mode far better than explorer mode. If this seems like a duplicate, it's because I asked this earlier today and this site crashed and appeared to not have sent this out.

bruce_hartley
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Marc - I don't know - I haven't had the chance to ask anyone else and I'm not sure how many people have upgraded yet. I also wanted to mention that patch level 5 seems to have the same issue as well for me. It most likely would be everyone else's as well because a person at my company made common config files that get installed on your system when the GUI is installed. Unlike most I can change mine so that is why I was wondering if this is a new "feature" or something that someone customized. If anyone has installed 750 and has list and tree views, I would appreciate knowing about it as then I can try and figure out what they did in the INI files to limit it.

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explorer-only-view.jpg

I am including this screen shot to what exactly I'm talking about - where I have circled the explorer view button is where there used to be four buttons in 740 from left to right - Workspace view, Explorer View, List View, and Tree view. So actually there are three other views that are gone now as opposed two others - I didn't notice the workspace view until now.

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bruce_hartley
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I finally found out the right answer - there are registry keys to disable any and all types of views. Where I found the documentation on this is as follows:

URL is https : // wiki.scn.sap.com / wiki / display / NWTech / SAP + GUI + Logon + Configuration - you have to remove the spaces, for some reason SCN does not like the "SAP + GUI + Logon + Configuration" part and thus I had to do it this way - sorry. If anyone knows how to do this link properly with the link editor, please let me know how and I will fix this.

The section is near the bottom and is entitled "Disabling SAP Logon Views via Registry"

So I modified the entries that someone had added and I got my tree and list views back.

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bruce_hartley
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regedit-keys-for-view-fix.jpg Just to give everyone an update - this happened also on 750 PL 5 and on 750 PL 9 Hot Fix 1 as well which is the current version I have running. Each time I installed the new patch level, it undid the registry key fix and I had to re-do it all over again. It also appears that for 750 PL 9 Hot Fix 1 that the number of registry keys were cut back by 1 - it appears that someone changed the code so that explorer mode is the default and you can't disable it but you can then add back the other two modes via the registry keys. I purposely attached a limited view of my registry to show this and it's the last two entries that I modified from zero to one.

Hello Bruce,

Does the behavior only happen on your PC or on others as well

Best regards,

Marc

bruce_hartley
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Everyone in my company is affected by this - sorry for the delayed response - I don't know why I'm not getting emails for when people answer my questions - not your fault