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To use the contents of this help file efficiently, you first need to be aware of certain conventions. SAP introduces these conventions to help you understand the type of the content typographic styles. The following are the conventions you find across all the topics in this help file.

Icon Conventions

The icon conventions indicate the type of the content existing in a topic.

Icons in Topic Titles

Icon

Meaning

Component documentation

High-level conceptual information of a particular tool or a feature

Object documentation

Detailed conceptual information of an object or a feature

Process documentation

Sequence of events and functions

Procedure documentation

Detailed procedural steps a user must perform

Function documentation

Background process of the system based on a user action

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

An example for a process or procedure

Icons in Topic Text

Icon

Meaning

Note

For more information, tips, background info, note or further explanation of previous point

Example

Example

Recommendation

Recommendation or guideline

Caution

Exception or caution

Typographic Conventions

The typographic conventions provide a visual contrast between the specific text, which requires your attention, and the normal text.

Typographic conventions

Icon

Meaning

Interface Text

Words or characters that appear on the screen. This includes system messages, field names, screen titles, pushbuttons, menu names and menu options.

User Entry

Exact user entry. These are words and characters that you enter in the system exactly as they appear in the documentation.

File name

File names, batch files paths or directories, and screen messages.

<Variable User Entry>

Variable user entry. Pointed brackets indicate that you replace these words and characters with appropriate entries.

NAME

Name of elements in the SAP system. These include report names, program names, transaction codes, table names.

KEY

Keys on the keyboard. These include function keys, for example, F2 and the ENTER key.

Text

Text in this documentation to distinguish its text from the typographic conventions used in SAP documentation.

 

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