Linking Objects in a GUI Status (SAP Library

Linking Objects in a GUI Status

There are two ways of creating a status:

By creating new components with a unique reference to the status.
By referring to existing components, and using them more than once in several different statuses.
When you do this, you can create individual menu bars, menu functions, and function key settings either for an arbitrary basic status, or from the appropriate overview list. New statuses can then use these components.

Copying a Menu Bar

Create a new status that you want to link to a menu bar.

In the Menu Painter, choose Edit ® Copy ® Menu bar (or the Assign icon This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

).
The system displays a list of all of the existing menu bars for the current program.

Choose a menu bar by double-clicking it.
The status links to the functions on the list. However, the functions are not yet active.

Activate the functions.

Copying a Function Key Assignment

Create a new status that you want to link to a function key setting.

In the Menu Painter, choose Edit ® Copy ® Function key setting (or the Assign icon This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

).
The system displays a list of all of the existing function key settings for the current program.

Choose a function key setting by double-clicking it.
The system creates the link to the function key setting. However, the functions are not yet active.

Activate the functions.

Copying an Application Toolbar

Create a new status that you want to link to an application toolbar

In the Menu Painter, choose Edit ® Copy ® Pushbutton settting (or the Assign icon This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

The system displays a list of all of the existing application toolbars for the current program.

Choose an application toolbar by double-clicking it.
The system creates a reference to the application toolbar. However, the functions are not yet active.

Activate the functions.

Removing Links

There are several ways you can remove a link. The simplest method is to simply overwrite the link with new information.

You can also use the Edit ® Initialize function to reset a function key, menu, or pushbutton setting.