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Working with other Synactive components, namely Designer, Input Assistant and Viewer, GuiXT empowers R/3 users by allowing them to enhance the R/3 user interface without any changes to underlying ABAP and/or business logic. GuiXT is an add-on solution bundled with SAP R/3 as shown in the image below.
Layout customizing enables you to:
- Move or delete fields, table columns and pushbuttons.
- Modify field texts, headings and pushbutton labels.
- Add texts, tips and group boxes.
- Display images.
- Simultaneously modify texts on all R/3 screens.
Navigation enables you to:
- Add your own pushbutton functions.
- Set default values.
- Offer radio buttons instead of coded input.
- Restrict input to capital letters or numbers.
- Change the length of input fields.
Additional Benefits include:
- Central administration with local cache
- Up to 4 script directories
- Display of data dependent images (e.g. product images)
- PC applications start simply by clicking on an image
- Images in list displays
InputAssistant Overview - Ease the Burden of End-Users
InputAssistant, as the name suggests, helps you create R/3 screens with simple data entry fields. Working in tandem with GuiXT, InputAssistant helps you combine multiple tabs, screens and transactions into one simple user interface. Interaction with External Programs and Websites - You can load data from external programs, make internal RFC calls, and interact with an external Internet site to load data into SAP.
Faster R/3 Data Entry - Input sets help so that it will fill in common sets of information in R/3 fields. It also enables you to set default values. Local Value Help - You can create a subset of values, which will appear by right-clicking. Users don't have to press F4, which initiates an ABAP query in the background.
Screen Consolidation and Customization - You can combine multiple screens and tabs into one screen.
GuiXT Designer - Click, Drag, DropModify any SAP screen in minutes
The GuiXT Designer is a WYSIWYG tool that allows you to customize SAP screens with Drag and Drop automation. Designer generates GuiXT scripts internally. So to redesign a SAP screen, you simply navigate to the screen and click on the Designer icon on the GuiXT window. This starts the automation process.GuiXT Designer enables you to:
Generate GuiXT scripts automatically. Modify views, change positions and delete fields or groups of fields.
Add push buttons, radio buttons, input fields, group boxes and images. Modify on-screen text and add tips.
Toggle between two modes: Script view and WYSIWYG view.
