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Author's profile photo Sandra Thimme

SAP Business Client 8.00

We are happy to launch SAP Business Client 8.00, together with SAP GUI for Windows 8.00.

The Fiori 3 theme Quartz Light will be the standard theme.

What’s New with 8.00?

Inplace Navigation

Using a FLP connection in the SAP Business Client combines UI5 apps and SAP GUI transactions rendered natively in one central entry point. In the past, those natively rendered transactions had always to be shown in a new tab. Compared to the FLP running in a standalone browser with SAPGUI for HTML transactions inplace (if configured accordingly), this has been an obvious user experience gap.

With the SAP Business Client 8.00, it is now possible to perform the same navigations inplace while still using the native SAPGUI for Windows rendering.

You decide if your SAP GUI for Windows transaction is opened in a new tab or inplace.

 

Separate Theming for Shell and System Selector

With SAP Business Client 8.00, it is now possible to separately theme the system connection dialog (System Selector) and the connection-related main windows (Shell windows).  

In the Settings UI, you can now select a ‘Shell Theme’ and a ‘System Selection Theme’. If you’d like to stick to the used theming behavior, the default value ‘Use Shell Theme’ of the setting ‘System Selection Theme’ is the right choice.  

Focus on Edge

Focus on the Edge WebView2 browser control – Goodbye Cef Chromium (see: Microsoft Edge in SAP Business Client).

Even though Microsoft announced the de-support for Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer Control will remain to be supported and working, see note 3090354

SAP Build Work Zone Integration

The SAP Business Client 8.00 integrates SAP Build Work Zone. Thus, the Business Client provides a single point of access for different UI technologies and application types. 

Favorite Export

With SAP Business Client 8.00 it’s possible to export the favorites of one user and import them with another user or machine. 

Export Favorites

History

With 8.00, we offer a new History UI. The History UI can be accessed by the main window menu or by choosing “Ctrl+H”.

In the History UI you will see a listing of connection-related applications and transactions and unrelated browser URLs. Like you would expect, the history can be easily filtered, searched and of course deleted partly or completely.

History UI

Settings UI moved to main window

Similar to standalone browsers and according to recent UX expectations, we have moved the Settings UI into the Business Client’s main window. Changes to the settings are directly saved now, except for file paths, which have to be applied first. 

Additional Features

  • Support SAP GUI for Windows 64-bit version
  • Installer to remove previous SAP Business Client releases

 

Additional Information

Support Timeline
*Refer to SAP Note 2302074 (SAP Business Client) and SAP Note 147519 (SAP GUI for Windows) for details

 

Useful Notes

 

Download

Prerequisites and Known Issues (3220574)

SAP Business Client 8.00 expected releases (3278341)

Help Portal Documentation

SAP Business Client

 

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      Author's profile photo Veronica Anceschi
      Veronica Anceschi

      Where can I download the 8.00 for Windows? Isn't it available yet?

      Author's profile photo Matthias Lanting
      Matthias Lanting

      https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/softwarecenter/template/products/%20_APP=00200682500000001943&_EVENT=DISPHIER&HEADER=Y&FUNCTIONBAR=N&EVENT=TREE&NE=NAVIGATE&ENR=73554900100200015933&V=INST&TA=ACTUAL&PAGE=SEARCH/SAP%20GUI%20FOR%20WINDOWS%208.00%20CORE

      Author's profile photo Sandra Thimme
      Sandra Thimme
      Blog Post Author

      Sap Business Client 8.0: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/softwarecenter/template/products/_APP=00200682500000001943&_EVENT=NEXT&HEADER=Y&FUNCTIONBAR=Y&EVENT=TREE&NE=NAVIGATE&ENR=01200314690100001374&V=MAINT&TA=ACTUAL/NETWEAVER%20BUSINESS%20CLIENT

      Info:
      https://community.sap.com/topics/business-client

      SAP Gui for Windows:
      https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/softwarecenter/template/products/%20_APP=00200682500000001943&_EVENT=DISPHIER&HEADER=Y&FUNCTIONBAR=N&EVENT=TREE&NE=NAVIGATE&ENR=73554900100200015933&V=INST&TA=ACTUAL&PAGE=SEARCH/SAP%20GUI%20FOR%20WINDOWS%208.00%20CORE

      Info:
      https://blogs.sap.com/2023/01/20/sap-gui-for-windows-8.00-is-coming-on-27th-of-january-2023-new-features-lifecycle-information/

      Author's profile photo Mariusz Bania
      Mariusz Bania

      Great information - finally I can auto-type local values and tables in abap editor 🙂

      Author's profile photo Daniel Betz
      Daniel Betz

      Where can I find further Information for Work Zone Support?
      How can I configure a connection to SAP Build Work Zone ?

      Author's profile photo Sandra Thimme
      Sandra Thimme
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Daniel,

      it's the same as with the Launchpad Service:

      The destination has to be created within the BTP cockpit and than you enter the URL....

      https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BUSINESS_CLIENT/f526c7c14c074e7b9d18c4fd0c88c593/18a609d7b8fd471f8735f4fd81c00413.html?q=launchpad%20integration

      And you can use templates as well:

      https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BUSINESS_CLIENT/f526c7c14c074e7b9d18c4fd0c88c593/6f0b63fdc0674ee6b7c08a68acaada0d.html?q=templates

      give it a try and tell us your opinion....

      Regards,

      Sandra

      Author's profile photo Daniel Betz
      Daniel Betz

      Hi Sandra,

      The first option works fine for us.
      Thank you for your quick reply...

      Regards,

      Daniel

      Author's profile photo Jun Kim
      Jun Kim

      I installed GUI 800, 50160634_2.
      There is a bug where xception condition "CNTL_ERROR" raised. error occurs when combining tables in T-CODE SQVI. Should I wait for the next release? It's 64 Bit for Windows. EHP6 FOR SAP ERP 6.0

      Author's profile photo Sandra Thimme
      Sandra Thimme
      Blog Post Author

      Dear JUN KIM, could you please have a look at the following community page:

      https://answers.sap.com/tags/345385326078662132058122667685214

      Kind Regards,

      Sandra

       

      Author's profile photo Arun Akuthota
      Arun Akuthota

      Thank you Sandra for the blog and details. Can you please advise if its possible to load SAP Easy Menu or user GUI Favorites to business client favorites.

       

      Thank you,

      Arun

      Author's profile photo Felix Primbs
      Felix Primbs

      Hi Sandra,

      thank you for the great post.

      I have a small problem/question regarding the new Home Button in the NWBC shell next to the back button.

       

      When the button is pressed I get the error:

      No page ID and space ID entered. Please enter one space ID and one page ID.

       

      I have found nothing in the help where I can define a default space/page for the new button. The "SAP" button works fine and shows the Homepage or the last one used as per parameter.

       

      KR

      Felix

      Author's profile photo Sandra Thimme
      Sandra Thimme
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Felix, we need the icon for the new inplace navigation offered with the new version 8.00. If you open a SAP GUI for Windows transaction the FLP Home Button is gone because we are "leaving" the FLP.

      But the error message is strange and never occured to us. Could you please open an incident to investigate that issues. Verbose traces are needed.

      Component: BC-FES-BUS-DSK

       

      Thanks and kind regards,

      Sandra

      Author's profile photo Peter Hoffmann
      Peter Hoffmann

      Hi Felix,

      could you solve the issue?

      KR

      Peter

      Author's profile photo Felix Primbs
      Felix Primbs

      Hi Peter,

      no we could not fix the problem. We updated our system today to S/4 2022 FPS02 from FPS0, but same behavior.

      Home button brings you always to an empty page:

      "No page ID and space ID entered. Please enter one space ID and one page ID."

      I forgot to mention that we use Spaces (kind of obvious with the error message). Without Spaces the button works and brings you to your Home. Even when moving in the FLP from Space to Space and then using the Home button brings you to the empty Page.

      Do you have the same problem?

      I could not open a ticket for now because we have a hosting partner for that but this is a local client problem, this makes it difficult.

      I have a feeling that some NWBC setting or service is missing from server side.

      KR

      Felix

       

      Author's profile photo Peter Hoffmann
      Peter Hoffmann

      Hi Felix,

       

      I have exactly the same issue. With the classic FLP everything works as expected. When I enable Pages and Spaces I'm getting the same error message.

      We are actually on S/4 2021 FPS01 and Business Client 8.0 PL3.

      I opened a ticket at our partner. I'll share the solution, if they found one.

      KR
      Peter

      Author's profile photo Felix Primbs
      Felix Primbs

      Small update/workaround:

      You can disable the button in the NwbcOptions.xml

      <HomeButtonAvailable>false</HomeButtonAvailable>

      This is not documented anywhere but the back button is handled the same way.

      I really want to roll out NWBC 8 but I do not want hundreds of user tickets because of a broken button.

      Lets hope for an answer of your ticket.

      KR

      Felix

      Author's profile photo Peter Hoffmann
      Peter Hoffmann

      Hi Felix,

      Thank you for the workaround. Meanwhile I got an answer from SAP.

      "The "Shell-home" intent check has become more restrictive with BC 8 and is now case sensitive when using the Spaces. Therefore this navigation does not work anymore. We have corrected this bug in the business client and will deliver this fix in the upcoming patch."

      The issue should be fixed with the new patch.

      KR

      Peter

      Author's profile photo Felix Primbs
      Felix Primbs

      Thank you so much Peter! I wonder how this was overlooked.

      KR

      Felix