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SAP Spy TitleBar

ehedgepeth1 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:36:00 GMT

I cannot spy the title bar menu in SAP.
I have used ALT to try every spy mode (win , regions, SAP, IU and access).
It will not select the menu drop down for Extras on the title menu.
How can I spy the button for the Extras drop down menu.
I need to spy classifications under the menu.

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EH
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

david.l.morris — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:08:00 GMT

You could also use the underlined letters to select the options in the context menus. Activate Application, then send keys 'ALT' then send 'A' then send 'L' then send 'C'. Then have an intelligent wait stage that looks for the resulting screen to make sure the navigation worked properly. And of course have retries in this.

I haven't done that specifically with SAP, but this typically works with any app that responds to ALT+keys. In fact a lot of apps are able to receive those keys in rapid succession so it may even be faster this way.

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Dave Morris
3Ci @ Southern Company
Atlanta, GA
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

zdenek.kabatek — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Hi, Ebony,

what Dave described works 100%. You should create a generic business object action called Send Key(s) and in here you have to activate SAP window and then send the global send keys.

Regards,

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

ehedgepeth1 — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:01:00 GMT

I have already attempted all spy modes.
It is not spying the titlebar in sap.

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------Original Message------

Hi, Ebony,

what Dave described works 100%. You should create a generic business object action called Send Key(s) and in here you have to activate SAP window and then send the global send keys.

Regards,

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

zdenek.kabatek — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:06:00 GMT

Hi, Ebony,

the point is you do not spy the title bar. You spy through Win32 whole SAP window - make Window Title attribute wildcard with star only (in case you have only one SAP session open) it will activate any active window. Then you will send Global Send Keys to that window with ALT plus some letter. So in Global Send Keys action you will have % (it is ALT) and letter, i.e. %a (this will open context menu for Extras) then you will send %l and then %c and you are done :).

Regards,

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

MichalSzumski — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:15:00 GMT

Hi Ebony,

You can write Your own code stage (in VBA) based in vbscript that will handle it more efficiently. For us it looks like that:

Inputs:
N_In_Session_Number - SAP session number
T_In_ID - SAP ID taken from SAP scripting recorder

	Dim SapGuiAuto As Object
	Dim session As Object
	Dim Application As Object
	Dim Connection As Object


	SapGuiAuto  = GetObject("SAPGUI")
	Application = SapGuiAuto.GetScriptingEngine
	Connection  = Application.Children(0)
	session     = Connection.Children(cInt(N_In_Session_Number))

session.findById(T_In_ID).select

Attached is the screen with DLLs for this object

Best regards,
Michal Szumski

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Michal Szumski
RPA developer
Rockwell Automation
Europe/Warsaw
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

ehedgepeth1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:09:00 GMT

Thank you all I was able to get this to open the drop down menu but how will it select Classification and then classification as shown in the screenshot about?

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Ebony Hedgepeth
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

MichalSzumski — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:23:00 GMT

Hi Ebony,

You would need to record a script in SAP when selecting this menu item and then take SAP ID from recording. This ID will contain whole path for specific menu item. For example:

session.findById("wnd[0]/mbar/menu[2]/menu[6]").select

it means that It will select second menu category and then he will select 6th subcategory.

Best regards,
Michal Szumski

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Michal Szumski
RPA developer
Rockwell Automation
Europe/Warsaw
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RE: SAP Spy TitleBar

zdenek.kabatek — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:03:00 GMT

Hi, Ebony,

here is a screen shot of the action how to send the keys to SAP window. I also attached the action in XML format.

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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