SAPGUI shortcuts

Introduction
SAPGUI shortcuts are files located on a computer with SAPGUI for Windows installed, which are used to login directly to a SAP system, or run directly a SAP transaction, or entering okcode commands on modal dialogs.


How to create a SAPGUI shortcut

There are 4 ways to create a SAPGUI shortcut:
Approach 1:

• Click on the Create shortcut icon on a the toolbar in a SAPGUI session
• In the popup window, enter the values you need  
• See SAP Library and note 103019 in Links chapter below for more information. The TYPE field may be Report, Transaction or System Command (this late one is useful for entering /H in popup windows)
• A shortcut on the Desktop (or the location you entered) will be created

Approach 2:

• From desktop, choose Create SAP Shortcut using contextual menu and enter file name with extension .sap
• Then choose Modify in the SAP Shortcut contextual menu and enter Shortcut attributes as above

Approach 3:

• Create a text file with .SAP extension on the desktop with this kind of content (replace the values with your local ones):

  [System]
  Name=YD1
  Description=04 - **** Solman ****
  Client=100
  [User]
  Name=ALBERT
  Language=
  [Function]
  Title=Debug
  Command=/H
  Type=SystemCommand
  [Configuration]
  WorkDir=C:\Documents and Settings\albert\SapWorkDir
  [Options]
  Reuse=1

  The parameters are more or less explained in note 103019 below, as the sapshcut.exe parameters have the same names.

Approach 4:

• It is also possible to create a shortcut file from an ABAP program by calling SWN_CREATE_SHORTCUT function module, and save the text to a file (using GUI_DOWNLOAD function module). See the wiki in the Links below.

How to execute a SAPGUI shortcut

There are 3 ways to execute a SAPGUI shortcut:

• Double-click the .SAP file from Windows desktop or Windows explorer
• You may execute a .SAP file by sapsh.exe before 4.5 and sapshcut.exe after 4.5
• Drag and drop the .SAP file to an existing SAPGUI session window. It is especially useful for system commands (okcode commands) that need to be entered on a modal window (popup) as the okcode field is protected, like /H, /RON, /ROFF, etc.
  • Locate the window of your SAP popup window:
  • Display desktop by Windows-D key, then drag (do not drop) the shortcut to the window
  • Drag the shortcut to the popup window: 
           
  • Drop it: