Describing Navigation using a Web Browser

With AS ABAP-based SAP systems you can choose to communicate by either the SAP GUI or a web browser. You can consult the Product Availability Matrix (PAM), for example, to find out which web browser types are supported.

Web browser navigation is used under a range of different conditions:

• You log on to the SAP system with the SAP GUI for HTML. SAP GUI for Windows is not required. Navigation takes place via the web browser, only.

• You use an SAP GUI for Windows with the SAP system, for example. Some transactions open in a web browser. In all SAP systems, the transaction PAL (Printing Assistant for Landscape) opens in a web browser. In an SAP Solution Manager system, for example, this is the case for transaction LMDB (Landscape Management Database).

• You call a web browser-based web service of an SAP system.

The URL for the web browser-based call starts with http(s)://<host name of application server:<Port ppnn>. pp is a number that can be defined by a profile parameter, for example 80 for http or 443 for https, nn is the instance number, for example 11. The URL could therefore begin with https://fsdhost.wdf.sap.corp:44311.

As users always exist per client in AS ABAP, and are therefore client-dependent, the system prompts you to enter the client at log on.

With AS Java-based SAP systems, you cannot navigate with the SAP GUI – even not with the SAP GUI for Java or the SAP GUI for HTML. You can use a web browser to navigate. You can consult the Product Availability Matrix (PAM), for example, to find out which web browser types are supported.

The URL for the web browser-based call starts with http(s)://<host name of application server>:<Port 5ppnn>. pp is a number that can be defined by a parameter, for example 01 for https, nn is the instance number, for example 91. The URL could therefore e.g. begin with https://smhost.wdf.sap.corp:59101.

The AS Java does not have a client concept like AS ABAP. Users are therefore always system-wide. At log on, the system therefore does not prompt you to enter a client.