SAP Screen Personas - Usage & Acceptance

[former_member51634]

Dear All - we are looking at SAP Screen Personas as one option to add scripting on SAP GUI Screens.

Question is how much usage & acceptance for SAP Screen Personas exists among SAP Customers. Keeping FIORI Apps in mind and then S/4HANA (which we are not thinking before 3 years now).

If you can share your ideas and thoughts that will really help me to understand how widely this is used. thank you.

Best Regards..

[PeterSpielvogel · Accepted solution]

Hi Mandeepak,

We have over 1500 live customers in 70+ countries using SAP Screen Personas, so there is wide adoption of SAP Screen Personas among both ECC and SAP S/4HANA customers. If you are looking to create a brand new scenario, we have many tools that allow you to build Fiori apps. If the business logic already exists in the SAP GUI transaction code and you want to make it more user-friendly and simplify the way your employees interact with SAP screens, SAP Screen Personas is a fast and easy way to deliver this functionality.

Regards,

Peter

[former_member51634 · Accepted solution]

thank you Peter

[former_member51634]

Thank you.

I have created one very simple Script using your video, and it is working fine in persona browser.

However, when i am running it on GUI using Persona Flavor, I am getting error.

Error: Object Doesnt support this property or method

Src: Microsoft JScript runtime error

Line:3 Error:0 Scode:800a01b6.

Can i Debug this script button from SAP GUI Screen also? thanks much!

[tamas_hoznek]

Personas scripting in SAP GUI for Windows is more restricted than the scripting engine in the browser. It seems like you are using a command that is not supported in SAP GUI for Windows, due to such a limitation. Note 2080071 mentions some of these but it is not an exhaustive list.

[bwills]

Hi Mandeepak,

We use Personas for SAP Gui for Windows 7.5 (via Business Client 6.5) exclusively. Although it works, we do run into some issues where the SAP Gui for Windows does not support controls (just like you experienced in your test). We can usually find a solution. If not we submit a SAP Incident to the SAP Gui for Windows team and they fix issues via SAP Gui Patches.

There is no editor in SAP Gui for Windows. All editing is done through the web browser, so it is a trial an error thing to find these errors. I usually comment out most code, then try the flavor in SAP Gui. If it works, then I add in more code until I find the specific line that is causing the error. I then will try different coding do get it to work eventually. Sometimes it is picky about not putting objects (textfield, etc) in to variables. Sometimes the order of the code can make a difference too.

We have approx. 30 flavors that we use in production and they work pretty well. I will say that if you can use the web browser (HTML) version of Personas it is a lot more forgiving then SAP Gui.

Our users use Business Client 6.5 which renders Personas in SAP Gui inside. We are looking at rendering Personas via HTML inside of Business Client and have a working solution, but there will be change management issues with users before we could move to this solution.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Brian