The SAP Assistant Screen (SAP-Bibliothek - SAP Automation RFC and BAPI Interfaces (BC-FES-AIT))

The SAP Assistant Screen

The SAP Assistant screen area consists of the Browser window, which uses the SAP Browser control to display the RFC and BAPI information.

The following is the screen of the SAP Assistant:

SAP Assistant Panes

As seen in the above screen, the SAP Assistant window is composed of three frames or panes. (which are the panes of the Browser within it):

The left-hand side pane of the Browser window allows you to choose between BAPI, RFC, or Search views, by choosing one of three tabs. This pane displays a list of BAPIs or RFCs that exist on the system to which you are connected. The SAP Assistant sets this pane to "Function Group" for 3.0X systems since there are no Application Hierarchy or Business Objects defined for SAP R/3 3.0X releases. The Search tab allows you to search for a specific program, function, or function group. We refer to this pane as the BAPI/RFC tree pane.
The right-hand side pane changes based on your selection in the BAPI/RFC tree pane: it shows the details of the BAPI or RFC you have selected in the tree pane. We refer to this pane as the BAPI/RFC detail pane.
Once you display a BAPI or an RFC and see its parameters in the BAPI/RFC detail pane you can double-click on any of the parameters or other details items to view the properties of this parameter. This opens a third frame at the bottom of the BAPI/RFC detail pane. This third frame is called the Properties pane. Because the information is unavailable, the SAP Assistant shows nothing in the field description and field dictionary type parameter properties for users running 3.0X Releases of the SAP R/3 System.

There are four tabs in the Properties pane:

Tab	Description
General Info	Shows basic information, such as the name, internal name, decimal position, and description of the field of the parameter displayed in the heading row.
Data Types	Shows the ABAP Type and the Dictionary Type of the parameter displayed in the heading row.
Value Info	Shows the check table of the parameter displayed in the heading row. If you are connected in online mode (you are logged onto an R/3 system), you can display the values in the check table by clicking on the check table name in the Value Info pane. The Check Table field in the Value Info tab then becomes a drop-down list containing the check table values. Also shows whether the parameter has fixed value.
Documentation	Provides a long text description of the selected item. A search function is also available in this tab.

SAP Assistant Status Line

The status line in the SAP Assistant screen indicates the following:

The type of connection you have: whether it is online (logged on to an R/3 system) or offline (you are reading data from a local repository, which is a local database file)

The system you are connected to (regardless of whether you are connected in online or offline mode)

The application server of the system you are connected to

The local repository database filename, if you are using a local repository