Lesson13.Working With Screen Variants

Lesson 13. Working With Screen Variants

We discussed the different methods for entering data on the initial screens of transactions in the previous lessons in this part of our book. We now close this part with a discussion of screen variants.

Screen variants are customized versions of initial screens. When SAP is implemented by your SAP administrators, there is always some customization or configuration work performed on the initial screens by computer developers so that the default versions of these screens address the needs and practices of your company. For example, they might program the system to show selected data entry fields on initial screens; to hide the fields for data that are not collected by your company; or to automatically enter default values (such as company codes or dates) in some fields.

However, you can further customize some of the initial screens that you regularly use so that you can work with them more easily and efficiently. Specifically, you can

• Add data entry fields that are not present on the default versions of initial screens, but which you might need for your work;
  
  
• Create default values for data entry fields in which you always enter the same content;
  
  
• Hide data entry fields that you do not need for your work but that are present on the default versions of initial screens;
  
  
• Save your customized screens so that they appear automatically when you call them up in the future.
  
  

This lesson provides instructions for customizing your initial screens in these ways.