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System Selector

The NWBC system selector provides a single entry point to NWBC connections and SAP GUI (SAP Logon) connections and shortcuts.

The system selector provides the following views:

  • List view

  • List view together with explorer view

    The explorer view is useful if you have many entries and want to structure them hierarchically.

To show or hide the explorer view, choose the Show/Hide explorer view pushbutton.

Filtering and Structuring of Connections

You can filter and sort the system connections independently from the system selector view that you use. In the explorer view, you can order system connections in a hierarchical folder structure.

Workspaces are an additional option to structure and filter connections.

Using the dropdown menu in the top bar, you select a workspace or create a new workspace by choosing New Workspace....
Note Users can locally create their personal workspaces. Nevertheless, the administrator can also predefine workspaces that cannot be changed.
System Connection Type NWBC

A connection contains all relevant data required to instruct a server to retrieve all the relevant roles for a user. Since NWBC, as the shell, uses HTTP connections for its server communications, the connection data is also defined as a URL. The connection data is usually provided by the system administrator and must be configured.

Other Connection Types

NWBC allows you to make other connections:

  • New System Connection (SAP Logon)

    This option allows you to create a connection to a SAP Logon (SAP GUI) system/application.

  • New Shortcut (SAP Logon)

    This option allows you to create a shortcut to transactions, system commands, and reports in a specified system.

SAP GUI and shortcut connection types can be established in the same way as for SAP Logon. For more information, choose the Customize Local Layout button on the toolbar of a SAP GUI system, choose SAP GUI Help and see the topics 2.2.2.1 Adding a New Entry to the Connections Folder and 2.2.3.1 Adding a New Entry to the Shortcuts Folder.

You can have several connections open at the same time. If you start a connection to another system, a new instance of NWBC is started.

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