How to make your SAP Portal more ‘Business Application’ than Browser and Website

Problem:

You want your SAP Web Enabled Applications, eg Portal to look more like Business Applications on Windows and less like a Website running in Internet Explorer

Solution:

Configure an Internet Explorer Icon on the Users Desktops, or Citrix to open Internet Explorer without the Address Bar and Tool Bars

Here’s how to do it:

var ie = new ActiveXObject(“InternetExplorer.Application”);

ie.Navigate(“http://YourPortalServer:PORT/irj“);

ie.AddressBar = false;

ie.MenuBar = false;

ie.ToolBar = false;

// … etc … customize your heart out

ie.Visible = true;

(credit to this blog for providing the javascript: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8174286/start-ie-with-no-menu-address-bar-through-command-line-in-windows )

And then when the Users click the Icon for that SAP WebEnabled Application (eg Portal), the application will open in a clean Internet Explorer

looking rather more business like and professional than just a Web Browser and a Web page.

All the best.

Andy.