You use the Object Navigator to organize your programming in an integrated development environment. It allows you to create, change, and manage objects.
Development objects are arranged together in object lists. Each object list contains all of the objects in a certain category, such as development class, program, or global class.
From the object list, you can select an object by double-clicking it. The system automatically opens the tool that you use to process that kind of object. See also Working with Development Objects.

To help you in your work, the Object Navigator provides a comprehensive set of navigation functions. For further information, see Navigation.

• Use of controls
  
  In redesigning the interface of the ABAP Workbench, SAP developers have used the SAP Control Framework. The various controls that are used are all programmed using ABAP Objects. For an overview of the controls used, refer to Controls and the ABAP Workbench.
  
• Separation of navigation and tool areas
  
  The Object Navigator has separate areas for navigation and tools. For further information, refer to Navigation Areas.
  The navigation area display the object list. The tool area, on the other hand, displays the different development objects, each in its relevant tool.
  The following tools are integrated in the tool area in the Object Navigator:
  ABAP Dictionary, Class Builder, ABAP Editor, Function Builder, Screen Painter, Menu Painter, and text element maintenance.
  The remaining tools use the entire screen, and thus hide the navigation area when they are open.
  
• Overview of components of an application
  
  When you are editing a particular object in a tool, you can still see the other components belonging to the program, development class, global class, or function group.
  
• Context-sensitive right-click in browser
  
  In the navigation area, all of the functions that apply to objects are available from a context menu (right-click). You can choose a function directly from this menu, for example, to start the appropriate tool for editing the object.
  
• User-specific views
  
  If you often need to work on the same objects in the ABAP Workbench, you can include them in your favorites list.
  If you need to return to the same objects frequently during a single work session, you can include them in a worklist.

• Object list
• Toolbar for object list display
• Context menu

• ABAP Workbench tools
• Tool functions