Setting Up a User Menu

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Setting Up a User Menu

A user menu enables you to set up direct access paths to those parts of the system that you use the most frequently. If most of your work is buried deep in several menu levels, a user menu will simplify your way of getting to it. Follow these steps to set up a custommenu:

1. From any screen, select System, User Profile, Start User Menu. The User Menu window appears (see Figure 17.1).

2. Place the cursor on your user ID and click the Configure button. An empty user menu appears.

3. Click the New Entries button. SAP R/3 displays a dialog box in which you are to supply a name for this menu area (see Figure 17.2).

4. Enter a name for your new area, such as Purchasing .

   Figure 17.1. Starting a new user menu.

   

   Figure 17.2. You can use any name that suits the way you work.

   

5. You have to tell SAP which standard menu choice you want to copy to your own user menu. Click the Copy button, and the structure of the standard SAP R/3 menu appears (see Figure 17.3).

6. A plus sign in front of an entry indicates subentries. Open up successive levels by clicking plus signs until you get down to the function you want to add. Select an item and click Copy. The User Menu: Change Text dialog box appears (see Figure 17.4).

7. (Optional)  

   Although SAP R/3 already has a name for the menu item, you can change how it appears on your custom menu, naming it anything you want. For example, you could use the name Create Vendor known , as shown in Figure 17.4.

   Figure 17.3. Click a selection box to choose an item.

   

   Figure 17.4. How do you want it to appear on your menu?

   

8. Click Copy. SAP R/3 adds one area (Purchasing) to your user menu, as well as one item (Create Vendor known) under it. Repeat steps 6 “8 to create a structure like the one shown in Figure 17.5.

9. Click Save to save your new menu. Then click the Back tool button to return to the previous screen.

To activate your user menu, log off and then log back on again. You'll see that the User Menu window shows the names of the areas and the menu choices you specified (see Figure 17.6). To open and close branches, click the plus and minus signs; to make a selection, double-click an item.

Figure 17.5. The structure of your new menus .

Figure 17.6. Your finished menu.

In this lesson, you learned how to create and use your own menus. In Lesson 18, "Using Transaction Codes," you learn how to bypass the menus completely by using transaction codes and how to run multiple sessions of SAP R/3 and move between them.

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