I have been going through the OpenSAP course to see exactly what Personas can do. After watching the videos, seeing some demos and playing with some of it myself, I wanted to share some of the highlights I’ve found so far.
- One of the coolest things I found in Personas is that once you configure it for the webgui, it also applies to the Windows GUI. This really opens the door, because you aren’t locked into using the web GUI.
- Having control over the screen look and feel, making buttons into tiles, decent backgrounds, a web look and feel. As or my friend Jeff would probably say, it makes SAP not look like crap 🙂
- Combining tabs within a screen is relatively easy. It’s a bit clunky because it’s essentially do one step, save, exit, change tabs, move elements, and repeat.
- Tables and Grids can move or hide columns, but you cannot add new columns.
- Scripting is very powerful. It can jump you around screens, tabs, etc. It can pull data and populate dynamic fields, or even call RFC’s (this makes my creation of the RFC’s for services even more valuable). Turns out, services are the key to everything going forward with SAP.
- Installation and meeting the pre-requisites is manageable. The differences in versions can be a pain. Between kernels, versions, SAP Notes etc.
I have yet to try transporting my flavors or some of the more complicated scripting, but as I try them, I’ll be sure to post my thoughts.
Thanks for reading,
As always, thanks for reading and don't forget to check out our SAP Service Management Products at my other company JaveLLin Solutions,Mike