Screen Painter: Initial Screen

Screen Painter: Initial Screen

To start the Screen Painter, choose the corresponding pushbutton on the initial screen of the ABAP Workbench or enter Transaction SE51. The initial screen of the Screen Painter appears. Enter a screen number for an existing program. From here, you can:

Create new screens.
Test an existing screen.
Create new components for an existing screen.

The Object components text box lists the different screen component views. Each view lets you edit a different aspect of a screen.

If you choose...	You can...
Layout Editor	maintain a screen's layout
Element list	Maintain the ABAP Dictionary or program fields for a screen and assign a program field to the OK_CODE field in the Screen Painter.
Screen attributes	maintain a screen's attributes
Flow logic	edit a screen's flow logic

Once you are within a particular view, you can use the Screen Painter's Goto menu to enter the other views.