Introduction: Design and Operation of the SAP Application Window

We begin this book with a visual tour of the SAP application window^[1] and a discussion of the design and operation of its screen elements.

^[1] SAP uses the term session to describe the frame of its screens, but we use the more familiar term application window throughout this book.

When you launch SAP, a session or an application window appears on your computer desktop with a display of a scene or screen inside its frame. This screen changes in its appearance and function as you progress through the SAP workflow from the SAP Easy Access screen (the default “home page” of the system) to the initial screen of a transaction (where you set up and execute it) and finally to the output for that transaction.