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Purpose

The standard toolbar contains pushbuttons for important cross-application functions that can be quickly accessed with the mouse.

It also contains the command field for entering a fast path (see Pushbuttons with Icons on Initial Screens (Tools)) and transaction codes.

Standard Toolbar vs. Application Toolbar

The standard toolbar includes general (generic) functions of a cross-application nature. Application-specific functions are in the Application Toolbar (Control Element).

Appearance

The standard toolbar is only displayed in primary windows. It is displayed directly under the menu bar and can never be hidden.

The standard toolbar contain pushbuttons with a graphical label, while the application toolbar contains pushbuttons with textual labels.

Structure

The standard toolbar contains the following graphical pushbuttons with symbols and control elements in the order specified:

  1. OK/Check = ENTER (see Continue (Function))
  2. the command field implemented as drop-down list wihich provides a history of the last 20 commands entered by the user; the drop-down list can be displayed by clicking on the respective pushbutton;
  3. the Save or Post (Function) pushbutton,
  4. the pushbuttons for the three navigation functions Back (Function), Exit or End <application> (Function), and Cancel,
  5. the pushbuttons for the group Search and Print: Print, Search, and Search next,
  6. the pushbuttons for the local clipboard functions Cut, Copy and Paste; for Windows and Apple, the pushbutton for Select mode is positioned at the beginning of this group
  7. the four scroll buttons First Page, Last Page (Function), Previous Page, and Next Page,
  8. for Windows 95 and Windows NT the pushbutton for accessing the settings of the Session Manager,
  9. and, finally, the F1=Help pushbutton (see Help (Function)).

All pushbuttons of a group are close together.