SAP Script Forms

Key Information

!This is an early release of SAP Script Form capture and replay capability. It is in early ramp-up and customers are invited to trial it with support from Basis Technologies to ensure it delivers the expected business results.

SAP Scripts are a fundamental part of many customers SAP systems allowing system data to be printed or displayed for users, customers and vendors in a more modern format. SAP Scripts forms can be generated from various standard SAP transactions and sent to the printer for printing. Many batch jobs also generate SAP Script forms for spool printing.

When these SAP Script forms are generated by the system (whether through a SAP GUI dialog transaction or a batch job for example), then the Testimony capture code will automatically record them and associate them as linkages with the various scripts/steps which created them.

In the screen-shot below, you can see the SAP Script Form as a linkage for step 3 in the script. This is the step that generated the SAP Script Form.

SAP Script Form example

*The red indicator next to the linkage in the lower left part of the screen indicates that the validation of the recorded script with what happened in the playback has failed.

When the linkage in the lower left is selected, the right hand side appears with the recorded/expected SAP Script form on the left and the playback/actual SAP Script form on the right. You are able to see the header information relating to the two forms, the PDF view of the forms as well as the raw OTF data.

Recording SAP Script Forms

To capture SAP Script Forms in your source system, you need to activate the SAP Script Form recording enhancement. This is detailed in the following earlier section on General Enhancements -> Enhancements.

Once captured in the recording, these linkages will be visible as “SAP Script Form” linkages in the Business Transaction Linkage Explorer. After transferring to the Repository, these same linkages will be found within the Test Script Linkage Explorer.

Playing back and comparing SAP Script Forms

During the playback, the same SAP Script Forms will be captured and then compared to what happened in the recording.

Additional Notes

You can deactivate the comparison of the raw OTF data if you expect to see differences between the form data in the recording versus the playback. This would typically happen if such fields as time-stamps, unique identifiers or GUID’s are contained within the output data. This parameter is explained in the earlier section on Configuration Parameters.

!Note that you are now able to “suppress” certain sections within the SAP Script Form. These are defined as the “Windows” as per the definition of a SAP Script Form. The configuration must be entered into the central system, table /BTI/AUT_C_CHSF. This allows you to either include or exclude certain windows from the comparison for a particular form name.