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cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_delete does not delete when open in MS Edge

thorsten_krpelin
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mse.txtHello friends,

any idea ? ,

when a temporaly file stored in GUI-tmp folder is opened with MS Edge

cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_delete returns "OK" , but file still exist.

When then you Close MS Edge , file disappears.

Problem:

Step 1: Open a PDF in MS Edge (Windows 10)

Step 2: cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_delete returns "OK"

Step 3: cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download using this filename fails, because file still exist.

If opened in Adobe Reader OR MS-IE no Problem.

see attached testreport mse.txt.

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jude_bradley
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Hello Thorsten,

SAP GUI For windows doesn't support any other browsers and it supports only Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Refer to note 66971-Supported SAP GUI platforms

SAP GUI for Windows and Web browsers

SAP GUI for Windows has several dependencies on Web browsers:

  • Using the SAP HTML control, HTML pages can be embedded by an application that runs on SAP GUI for Windows. SAP GUI for Windows uses the Internet Explorer control to display these pages. This control largely corresponds to Internet Explorer and is already available following the installation of the operating system. You cannot configure SAP GUI for Windows so that a different browser control (for example, Chromium) is used. The pages displayed in SAP GUI for Windows thus always run using Internet Explorer.
  • SAP GUI for Windows can be embedded into an SAP application that runs in a Web browser (such as SAP Enterprise Portal). Here, there are essentially two types of embedding:
    • Via an SAP shortcut (.sap): This opens SAP GUI outside the browser window ("outplace"). This option is available with all browsers (depending on the SAP Platform Availability Matrix).
    • Using structured documents (SSD): This opens SAP GUI within the browser window ("inplace"). This option is available only with browsers that support the embedding of ActiveX elements. Currently, this is possible only for the desktop version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (for information on Edge, see this Microsoft document, for example). As a result, SAP GUI for Windows in browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer can be operated only "outplace".

For the reasons mentioned above, the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer is recommended for the use of SAP GUI for Windows.