Technical steps to prepare for SAP GUI automation

Before we can use automation with SAP GUI, both SAP GUI client and SAP server needs to allow SAP scripting. The SAP GUI Scripting behavior can be also modified per machine in the Windows Registry.

Client-side setup

How to enable SAP Scripting on the SAP Logon client side?

1. Go to SAP GUI Options
   section Accessibility & Scripting
   select Scripting
   
2. In the section User Settings check the “Enable scripting” checkbox.

Server-side setup

How to enable SAP Scripting on the SAP server side?

Basis team needs to set the RZ11 system parameter

sapgui/user_scripting

to value TRUE.

Notes

There are also more fine grained options available now for SAP Scripting, for example if we need to allow read only mode or in case we want to disable recording new scripts. For additional parameters that modify the usage of sapgui/user_scripting, please read the referenced documentation below [1].

Windows Registry setup

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAP\SAPGUI Front\SAP Frontend Server\Security
\UserScripting

The registry key should be set to 0 if the SAP GUI Scripting should be disabled on the particular machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Wow6432Node\sap\SAPGUI Front\SAP Frontend Server
\Scripting

References

1. SAP GUI Scripting Security Guide
2. https://studio.uipath.com/docs/enabling-sap-gui-scripting
3. Community Wiki on SAP GUI Scripting

SAP Notes

480149 – New profile parameter for user scripting at the front end

1261706 – Kill bits set for SAP GUI Scripting

2565390 – SAP GUI Scripting: Changed behavior for combination of profile parameters sapgui/user_scripting_set_readonly and sapgui/user_scripting_per_user