Starting a SAP GUI 

Use

When calling a function module in the SAP system it may be necessary to start a SAP GUI on your client.

Some (older) BAPIs need this, because they try to send screen output to the client while executing.

Prerequisites

●      If you want to start a SAP GUI on an external client, your SAP backend system must meet some requirements. You will find detailed information in SAP note 1258724.

●      You have installed the Windows SAP GUI or Java SAP GUI (Unix) on your system.

Procedure

To start a SAP GUI from your client program, proceed as follows:

 

Windows:

Set the property USE_SAPGUI to 1 (hidden) oder 2 (visible).

Possible values are:

●    0: no SAP GUI (default)

●    1: attach a "hidden" SAP GUI, which just receives and ignores the screen output

●    2: attach a visible SAP GUI.

 

Unix:

 

Set the envrionment variable via:

 

setenv SAPGUI <pfad zum SAPGUI startskript> (tcsh) or

 

set SAPGUI=<pfad zum SAPGUI startskript> (bash)

 

For Mac OS the path name could look like this:

 

"/Applications/SAP Clients/SAPGUI 7.10rev7.3/SAPGUI 7.10rev7.3.app/Contents/MacOS/SAPGUI"

 

For Linux and other Unix systems the following path would be valid:

 

/opt/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.10rev7.3/bin/sapgui

 

You must not add any parameter after the script name of the environment variable.

Start the external application from the same shell to propagate the environment variable to the program.