From the course: SAP ERP Essential Training

Logging on using the SAP GUI - SAP ERP Tutorial

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Logging on using the SAP GUI

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- [Instructor] We're now going to log on to the SAP GUI or GUI. GUI stands for graphical user interface. To log on, we need the SAP software installed correctly and an internet connection. Oftentimes companies will require employees to be connected to the company's network to establish a connection with the system. This could mean we need to log onto our company's VPN when we're working remotely. When installed properly there'll be an icon on our desktop or a windows menu option in the SAP front end folder called SAP log-on. Double-clicking on SAP log-on will open the SAP log on pad. When our SAP system is set up properly with at least one connection created, we'll see it in our connections list. In our test system, the connection we'll use is commercial SAP S/4 HANA 1709. So we'll select it and click log on. This opens up the SAP log on screen. The first field we want to look at is called client. Clients are a way to separate data. For example, many organizations will have a testing client to test different functionality and a production client where all the real world operations are being done. The client field is where we enter the number of the database we're accessing. In this case, client 150 is our test client, so we need to enter 150 in the client field. Next is the user field. This is where we enter the username. And in our test system we'll enter username student001. This field is not case sensitive. Next we need to enter our password. Each organization can customize their own password rules. The first time we log on to a new client, SAP requires us to change our password. We'll enter the password now, and we can either press enter on our keyboard, or we can go to more user log on. We have successfully logged on to SAP, and this brings us to the SAP easy access screen where we can begin running transactions.

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