What's New in SAP NetWeaver Business Client

The NWBC system selector provides a single entry point to NWBC as well as SAP GUI connections and shortcuts.

The system selector provides two views: A list view and an explorer view. Both views can be filtered and sorted.

Workspaces are an additional option to structure and filter connections.

For more information, see System Connections.

SAP Shortcuts are mapped to NWBC and can be used to start SAP GUI connections directly in NWBC. Applications addressed in NWBC start-up URLs are opened within an existing NWBC window if the connection matches the user and client.

For more information, see SAP Shortcuts.

The desktop client version is by default rendered in the SAP Corbu standard theme, which is a theme with a light, neutral design and enlarged resolution for better readability. Nevertheless, users can keep the theme that is set in the SAP GUI options.

A new standard theme, SAP Blue Crystal, is available under the Theme field in the Personalize dialog box. This is applied to the shell, Index and New Tab page, and also to SAP GUI transactions - unless you specify Use SAP GUI theme in the personalization settings. UI theme designer support for the SAP Blue Crystal base theme is available as of NW UI Add On 1.0 Sp15/SAP_UI 1.0 SP15 and NW UI Add On 2.0 SP02/SAP_UI 2.0 SP02.

For more information, see Personalization Settings.

You can add applications, transactions, and Web pages that you use frequently to your Favorites. Favorites are system-dependent. The list can therefore vary depending on your system connection. Web links are independent from systems and are therefore kept in the list also when you switch systems.

You can add Favorites to folders that you can order hierarchically and you can choose where to add the Favorites item to the list by using your cursor.

For more information, see Favorites.

The icon for the side panel has changed from a switch to a toggle-button. The new icon is found next to the quick launch bar. Using a new setting, side panels can automatically be opened with the application.

• Personalization Settings

  As of SAP NWBC 5.0, the Personalize dialog box has been enhanced as follows:

  • Logon (New Section):

    • Hide system selector on start-up: This checkbox was previously in the section Other.

    • Entry Page: Users can choose one of the following options as an entry page: first pinned tab, Index page, new tab page, or first workcenter page.

    • Client Language: Users can explicitly select a different language as the client language (the language with which NWBC is started).

    • Use client language on system logon screen: Users can select this checkbox to ensure that system logon screens use the same language as the client language (see above). This setting overrules a language predefined in a system connection. It allows users to log on in a different language (than is the default) when authenticating through Single Sign-On; without this, there is no possibility to change the language in the system logon screen.

    • Administrator Configuration File: If this field is visible, users can change the source file for administrator-defined connection configuration settings.

    • User Configuration File (Path): If this field is visible, users can change the path for their own self-defined connection configuration settings.

  • SAP GUI Interoperability:

    • Use SAP GUI theme: Users can choose to keep the theme that they have set in the SAP GUI options instead of using the Corbu theme, which is the default setting.

    • Open session in new window: Users can select this checkbox to open SAP GUI sessions in new windows instead of new tabs, which is the default setting.

    • Show transaction codes: Users can display the transaction code of a transaction.

    • Merge system function bar and application bar: Users can merge the system function bar and the application bar.

    • Show title bar: Users can display the SAP GUI title bar of an application in the content area.

    • Do not close tabs: Users can prevent NWBC from closing tabs with SAP GUI transactions when the user or program navigates back to the SAP GUI entry screen.
  • Other
    • Show animations for tabs: This checkbox is selected by default. A loading animation is displayed when the content of a tab is loading.
    • Hide system selector on startup: This checkbox has been moved from this section to the new Logon section.
    • Open side panel with new tab: Users can select this checkbox to display an application and, additionally, its associated side panels.
    • Show work center links on index page: Users can select this checkbox to display a work center title as a link on the index page. The link appears when a user hovers over it. Clicking the link opens the default page.
    • Show system information in tab title: Users can select this checkbox to display the system/client information as a prefix in the tab title; this is now valid not only for SAP GUI transactions but also for Web Dynpro ABAP applications, service maps, and NWBC overview pages.

  For more information, see Personalization Settings.

• Renaming of Tabs

  Tabs can be renamed. For more information, see Personalization of Navigation Structure.

• Switching Off NWBC Built-In Search Providers (Administrator)

  For more information, see Administrator Configuration Tips.

Work center titles on the Index Page now contains links, offering users direct access to the work center's default page.

The table shows the correct SP levels:

For more information, see Business Client Versions. This chapter reflects the currently-supported NWBC versions, in particular the new SAP NWBC 5.0.

Prerequisites for SAP NWBC 5.0 Standalone

Software

• SAP GUI for Windows 7.40

• Microsoft .Net 4.5 and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012

  Note Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 is included in SAP NWBC 5.0. If you do not have Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012, it is automatically installed with SAP NWBC 5.0.

For more information, see NWBC for Desktop Installation.

SAP NWBC 5.0 can now be installed together with SAP GUI 7.40 in one installation step.

For more information, see Installing NWBC with SAP GUI.

NWBC offers the possibility to integrate content from other systems by using the property Target System in PFCG, either for single menu entries or for a whole role.

For more information, see Remote Systems.