Finding Information in the BAPI Browser 

If you are using a SAPgui from a release before 4.6A, the BAPI Browser is displayed instead of the BAPI Explorer.

To display a description of individual symbols in the BAPI Browser choose Utilities ® Legend.

BAPIs of SAP interface types cannot be displayed in the BAPI Browser. You have to use the Business Object Browser, as described in Determining Details of BAPIs of Interface Types.

In the application hierarchy of the BAPI Browser you can display all the SAP business object types for which BAPIs have been implemented:

  1. Choose Tools ® Business Framework ® BAPI Browser or enter the transaction code BAPI45 in the SAPgui command field. The BAPI Browser of the BOR appears and all business object types with BAPIs are displayed in the R/3 application hierarchy.
  2. Expand the nodes and the subordinate nodes of one of the application components until you get to the level where the SAP business object types are assigned. Only those business object types for which BAPIs have been implemented are displayed.
  3. To open an object type, double-click on it.

    4. The nodes Key fields and Methods are displayed.

  4. To display a list of the key fields of the object, expand the node Key fields. Select the information icon to display descriptions of individual key fields.
  5. To display a list of the BAPIs available for this SAP business object type, expand the node Methods.

    6. To display details of individual BAPIs and the name of the function module that implements the BAPI, select the information icon. The name of the function module is given at the start of the documentation. The names of BAPI function modules always begin with "BAPI".

  6. To display the parameters of a BAPI, expand the node for the BAPI and then the Parameters node.

A list of all the BAPI’s parameters is displayed. Select the relevant icon in the BAPI Browser to display further information about the individual parameters.