it is not fully displayed; instead "..." is added at the end. Is there a workaround?

Pushbutton with process=: I have created a few buttons for SAP and GuiXT starts with SAP but the buttons do not work. In the GuiXT window there is an error message saying that InputAssistant is needed for buttons.

Text as hyperlink: Is it possible to display on the screen a text string that functions as a hyperlink, i.e. when clicked, it opens a web site?

Numeric column titles: In a table control we have columns with a number as title, e.g. "36". When we use this column title in GuiXT script commands such as

ColumnWidth [tablename,36] 8

GuiXT interpretes it as column number, which is correct according to the documentation. We could use the column number instead, e.g. write

ColumnWidth [tablename,122] 8

if column "36" is column number 122. Is there any other possibility?

A[...] elements in script editor list: In the GuiXT script editor I saw a screen element A[xxxx] which is not listed in the GuiXT window "Screen elements". What does it mean?

Display an image if document exists: I use the "image" command with option "start=" in order to let the user easily display a document on an external server.  How can I avoid displaying the image in cases where no document exists?

Display barcode: Can I use GuiXT to display the barcode for the material number in transaction MM03?

png images: Why can't I use PNG with image command? I've tried a simple script on logon page and it displays jpg okay but refuses to display png, showing:
"Picture C:\logon.png not found"

Noinput for table cells: Can I specify a column and row to make a table cell readonly, e.g. 
noinput [All items,Material,1]?

Distinguishing between two SAP systems with same name: We have just installed an additional SAP system which has the same SAP system name as our main production system. In order to let the user easily distinguish between the two systems I would like to display an icon on the logon screen of the new system. But how can I distinguish between the two systems? Since the system names are the same we can't use the command

" if Q[database=..."

Unidentified error: On the first screen in SAP ("SAP Easy access") I get a GuiXT error (GuiXT triangle red) but no error is shown in the script window. How can I find the error?

Invisible fields: Having recently upgraded to SAP GUI 7.20 we now have a problem with one of our scripts; it only occurs in SAP Signature Design: some fields within a group box are not displayed. When we click on the fields they become visible. Is this a bug in GuiXT?

Readonly radiobuttons: I have defined a series of readiobuttons that replaces an SAP input field:

Radiobutton (0,4) "UB" F[MEPO_TOPLINE-BSART] "UB"
Radiobutton (0,10) "NB" F[MEPO_TOPLINE-BSART] "NB"
Radiobutton (0,16) "YRB" F[MEPO_TOPLINE-BSART] "YRB"

The same screen can be used in a display-only transaction and I would like to change the radiobuttons to "readonly". But according to the documentation there is no "-readonly" option.

Q[Role=...] and performance: In our scripts we use the if Q[Role=...] option. Will this deteriorate our performance?

Position of screen elements: In my GuiXT script I use an offset command in order to define the position of additional pushbuttons:
     Offset (23,95)
     Pushbutton (0,0) ...
     Pushbutton (0,40) ...
Unfortunately, depending on the screen resolution, the offset varies so that the buttons are wrongly placed. How can I avoid this?

Querying a table cell value: I would like to make some screen layout changes which depend on the value the user has entered in a table cell. Is this possible with GuiXT?

Replacing characters: I am using the image functionality to display photographs of Materials (in MM). Unfortunately one of the new stock numbers contains "/" character in the material name, which presents a problem with the naming convention I have used to access the photo in the shared drive, as I am not permitted to use a "/" in the file name.
My question: Is it possible to locate the "/" in the Material name and replace it with another character (say "-")?

Pushbutton size: We recently upgraded from SAP GUI 7.10 to SAP GUI 7.20. In some of our scripts we use pushbuttons that consist of an icon only, e.g.
   Pushbutton (10,62) "@21"  ....
In SAP GUI 7.20 they are now displayed larger than before, overlapping the text that follows. Is there a way to avoid this?

Local files in SAPWR: In the SAP Web Repository I have registered the GuiXT script editor as MIME editor for .txt files. This works well. What I would like to know is: what is the name of the temporary folder in which the scripts are stored for the purpose of local editing?

User date format: When I use the instruction "Default F[BKPF-BLDAT] &[today_user]" the date is not in my SAP user format. Is there a setting to avoid this situation?

Deleting a menu item with its toolbar button: When we delete a menu item in a GuiXT script the corresponding toolbar button is usually deleted as well. We now have a case (transaction IH10) in which the menu item is deleted but the toolbar button is not. What could be the reason?

Language independent format: In one of my scripts I use the expression

if Q[Page=Basic Data 1]

I'm in the process of changing the scripts into language independent format. What is the appropriate language independent notation for the above expression query?

Comparison tool for scripts: During script development we need to compare different script versions. Is there a GuiXT tool to do this, or any other one that you could recommend?

Invisible columns even when GuiXT is turned off: We have used a GuiXT script in transaction IW32  to suppress table columns; then, even when GuiXT is later turned off, the suppressed columns remain suppressed (ColumnSize=0). How can I avoid this effect?

Network problem: Since we have implemented GuiXT scripts our users have intermittantly been getting a SAPWR RFC error, several times a day, in all different SAP screens. There is no obvious pattern that we can determine; it will happen during a process once, and then not the next time. The user can just click OK, immediately try the process again and this time it works. Apparently the system is momentarily unable to access the Web Repository. Can you please advise?

Our SAP system doesn't support Polish so we use GlobalTextReplace and TextReplace to provide Polish translations for the required fields (and remove the unnecessary fields with DEL function).
Are there performance differences between using GlobalTextReplace and TextReplace commands?

When we call up a screen for the first time the image is not displayed; it appears as soon as we use the vertical scrollbar or press enter. Why is this so?

Navigation screen: We use the SAP Web repository to store our scripts. Because of the limited file name length in the Web Repository we work with the "File ...alias=" command in the session script to shorten long script file names, for example

file "saplsmtr_navigation.d0100.txt" alias="menu.txt"

But for this screen it does not work in a new SAP GUI mode opened by the user. Why, and can you help?

Shifting tabstrips: I have problems with the field coordinates after introducing the command

pos S[TAXI_TABSTRIP_OVERVIEW] (9,0)

Do I still need to use the old screen coordinates in the area below the the tabstrip, and if so, why?

In transaction IE01 the standard width of the tabstrip area is a bit small. Can we increase it?

Deleting a tabstrip: On IW22, I delete the tab strip and then define my own group box where the tab strip was. However, this group box is now not shown.

Tab width: I have a problem with a tabbed dialog. I use the BoxSize command to display a larger group box with additional fields, but the tab frame is not appropriately resized.

Global change of menu entries: Is there a GuiXT command that allows us to delete menu entries in the SAP system menu for all screens, similar to GlobalTextReplace that can change texts in all screens?

I want to delete a toolbar button that consists of an icon only, no text label or tooltip. How can I name the button?

I want to remove the Adopt button from the Document Overview part in the ME21N screen. But the button is not contained in the GuiXT screen elements.

I am having a problem in deleting entries in SAP F4 help using GuiXT. The requirement is to have only a limited number of entries available for the user. Can you please advise me how to go about it.

We have an issue regarding radio buttons on a screen. These are customized radio buttons created separately and not related to an existing SAP field. The problem is that all the radio buttons on the screen are checked by default. Below is the code :

radiobutton  (6,90) "Trust" name="g_bp_trust" value="02"

radiobutton  (6,127) "Partnership" name="g_bp_partner" value="04"

radiobutton  (6,73) "Company" name="g_bp_company" value="01"

radiobutton  (6,110) "Individual" name="g_bp_indiv" value="03"

Is it possible in ABAP to query whether GuiXT is active?

I am currently implementing GuiXT for one of my projects and it's working great. I have a question though, which I hope you can answer: I am planning to default some values based on different role assignments, for example:

if Q[Role=Role1]

  default [Field] "Value1"

else

if Q[Role=Role2]

  default [Field] "Value2"

endif

My problem is that I have 174 roles I need to do this for! Is there any restriction on the number of "if" statements I can insert? Will this cause a noticeable degradation in performance? Are there any better alternative operations in GuiXT I should consider?

In our SAP system the users work with two different clients (110 and 200) in parallel. To avoid confusion between the two, we would like to assign different colors to these clients. Is this possible with GuiXT?

dynamic "goto"
Can a variable be used on a goto/label, the aim being to use dynamic labels instead of static ones?
We have unsuccessfully tried:
Label &[myLabel]
Goto &[myLabel]

We have a user menu made up of images and want to display the transaction codes when you mouse over the image. Is this possible?

When I press the EXIT button in the menu transaction, GuiXT starts VK12 transaction, instead of showing me the logoff pop-up window. What could be the reason?

I have following text in a parameter "Notification 3013495 saved"
When I write it out with "Message" I only get "Notification".
What have I done wrong?

I have tried the Image command using dynamic positioning. It seems to work for horizontal lines but I can't seem to get it to work for vertical lines. The box I want to create is around a customer field in VA01, the vertical lines are at:
Image (0.5,16.5) (0.6,27.5) "red.gif" -plain
Image (1.5,16.5) (1.6,27.5) "red.gif" -plain

How can I change the image that is shown in SAP's main menu screen?   

We are writing a dll function that we want to call from a GuiXT script. 
We have written the dll in VB, not in C++. Now the dll is recognized but the function inside the dll is not. Is there anything we need to do so that GuiXT recognizes our function?  When we  look at the dll with the Microsoft dumpbin utility
dumpbin mysample.dll /EXPORTS
then all our public functions are missing. Can you help?

How can I check the existence of a menu item? In PA20 I'm trying to hide the object manager (search screen on the left hand side) if it is visible.   

I have successfully replaced field names in the standard screen using the command GlobalTextReplace. Is there any way this same replacement could be applied to the Help Screens (Performance Assistance) as well?

I'm looking for a GuiXT system variable that contains the network name of the frontend PC. I know that &V[_winuser] denotes the name of the user that is logged on, but this is not sufficient for my purpose.

In the XD01 sceen (SAP ECC5.0) there exist two fields with the name "Sales organization". Normally GuiXT then uses the notation F[Sales organization.2] to denote the second field. Here this is not the case, there being two screen elements F[Sales organization]. Why? Is this an error?

I use the expression "&%[TEMP]" to get the value of the Windows environment variable TEMP in a GuiXT script, which is "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp" on my PC. When I tested it, the string returned by GuiXT was "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp" instead. Is this an error?

Is it possible with GuiXT to add a button to all SAP screens?

Is it possible to move a field from one screen to another without using InputAssistant?

Is it possible to disable a SearchHelp associated with an SAP field without using InputAssistant?

I'm using the if Q[database=...] notation in my scripts to distinguish between different SAP systems. We have now installed a new SAP release, and temporarily we have 2 systems with the same SAP name, e.g. D01. How can I distinguish these systems in my script?

I use the "start=" option of the Image command in order to display a certain document when the user clicks on the image. Is it also possible to display more than one document?

Problem with positioning an input field on a Service order Header screen (W31, IW32, IW33)

We use goto/label in our InputScripts. Is this allowed in GuiXT scripts as well?

We use an Image command with a relatively long "start=..." parameter. Is there a limit on the script line size?

User role: modifying a screen for certain users only (For question, see answer page.)

Drop in performance since changing the IP address of our SAP servers.

I have deleted a tabstrip with del S[...] and put some new fields into the former tabstrip area. Can I also delete the grey background that is visible in the tabstrip area?

How can I avoid an error with a simple mathematical problem?

Why didn't it work when I tried to use the command
CopyText fromScreen=X[2,20] -toClipboard
in order to copy a text into Windows clipboard? 

In transaction "CJI3", I want to delete the toolbar button "Change layout" and also the corresponding menu item. The command "del M[&OLX]" did delete the menu item, but why didn't it delete the toolbar button?

How can I overrule the system default logon-client with the Default command?

A question concerning the 'If' keyword: is there a status check that can give the SAP server name, in addition to the 'if Q[Database=...] ?

Is it possible to use a command in order to place the cursor in the field for the transaction code?

Is it possible to store guixt.ini and the user catalog (as well as the scripts) on the application server, or does one have to use a central Windows server?

Is it possible to have multiple testkeys in the same profile?

How can I query a variable with regard to space/initial?

Is it possible to input values into a multiple/single table cell when selecting a radiobutton?

Is it possible to use GuiXT with SAP portals?

Is it possible using GuiXT to link something on the screen to an MS Word document (i.e. a .doc file)?

I would like to display a text on a screen in a different font size. Is this possible?

Is GuiXT supported for the Integrated ITS?

Web Repository and ITS (For questions in full, see answer page.)

Pushbutton and Function codes (For question in full, see answer page.)

Is is possible to find out the total number of columns in a table that is displayed on an SAP screen?

In my script I address a table
  T[Product hierarchy positions sorted ascending by name]
When you change the sorting order the table name is
  T[Product hierarchy positions sorted descending by name]
How can I handle this in my script?

Will there be any deployment issues for later releases of GuiXT? We currently systematically move the guixt.exe, guixt.dll, and guixt.ini files to the PCs and laptops of our end-users. We have all of our GuiXT scripting in the SAP Web Repository. We use SAP transports to move scripts from one R/3 system to another. Will we be able to continue with this arrangement now that we will also be using SAP GUI scripting?

We use an image command to start a batch file:
Image (toolbar) "test.bmp" start="disp.bat [ID_SAP]=&F[FunctLocation]"
But only the string [ID_SAP] is passed to the .bat file.
Why are the "=" sign and the functional location missing?

We have created a new pushbutton in a certain screen. The function code "BACK" carried out by the pushbutton is a so-called "Exit command" in SAP that does not check the entered values. But when the user presses our own pushbutton, the values are checked. 
How can we achieve exactly the standard behavior of the SAP key?

Is there any way to find out how many filled rows there are in a table?

Do I need a specific browser when I want to a display an html-file with the "Control" statement?

What is the reason for font problems with R/3 - GuiXT?

Can I use the TAB command for SAP fields and inputfields I have created, other than in tables? Also, can I deactivate the history for one GuiXT inputfield only?

Is it possible, within one system, to have different screen variants for each R/3 client?

Is it possible to have a statement such as this:

if[Material=123456]

   Do Something...

else

   Something else...

endif