SAP Online Help 1 j j ‘The R/3 System provides comprehensive online help. You can display the help from. any screen in the system. You can always request help using the Help menu or using the relevant icon, The Help menu contains the following options: Application help: Displays comprehensive help on the current application. Selecting this menu option in the initial screen displays help on getting started with R/3. SAP Library: This is where all online documentation can be found. Glossary: Enables you to search for definitions of terms. Release notes: Displays notes which describe functional changes that occur between R/3 releases. SAPNet: Enables you to log on to SAPNet. Feedback: Enables you to send a message to the SAPNet R/3 Frontend, SAP's service system. Settings: Enables you to select settings for help. 21System function: Services The System menu contains, among others, the following options: Create/end session: Enables you to create and end sessions. You can work with up to 6 sessions at a tim User profile: where you can enter user-specific settings. Services: Takes you to important service functions (see below). List: Contains important list functions, such as searching for character strings, saving PC files, printing, and so on. Status: Enables you to display important user and system data. Log off: Ends the SAP R/3 session with a confirmation prompt. The System -> Services menu contains, among others, the following options: Reporting: Starts reports (ABAP programs). Output controller: This is where you manage user-specific print requests. Table maintenance: This is where you process tables and views. Batch input: Administers batch input sessions and data transfer. Jobs: This is where you can administer jobs that are processed in the background. SAP Service: Enables you to log on to SAP’s SAPNet R/3 Frontend. 22System function: User profile Use the menu option System-> User profile-> Own data to set your own personal profile. You can choose between the Address, Defaults and Parameters tabs. ‘Address: You can create and maintain personal data here, for example, hame,function, room number, telephone number, e-mail addresses and so on. Defaults: Defaults include the date display format, the decimal notation format, the default printer, the logon language, and so on. Parameters: Use this to assign entries to commonly-used fields. This is only available for input fields that have been allocated a parameter ID. Procedure for finding out a field’s Parameter ID: Go to the input field to which you want to assign a value. Choose F1, then the “Technical info” pushbutton, This opens a window that displays the corresponding parameter ID (if one has been allocated to the field) in the “Field data” section. The User profile menu also contains, among others, the following options: Hold data, Set data, Delete data. Use Hold data to keep data values that you have entered in fields in an application for the duration of a user session. When you call up the application again, you can overwrite these values. Once you have Set data, you can no longer overwrite these values and have to use Delete data if you want to enter different values. 23