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Hi,
I'm using AutoHotkey since several years at work, to automate processes with our SAP R/3 system.
This works very well, but I think it would be easier and more reliable to talk to the SAP GUI directly over the built in COM interface. When SAP GUI Scripting interface is enabled it's for example possible to read and write fields without using the Send ^c or Send ^v commands.

Has someone experience or examples how to automate the SAP GUI with ahk and the SAP Scripting Interface?

On the AutoIt3 forum Sean Griffin developed a way how to do this with AutoIt3:
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86574&st=0

Exists perhaps a tool, that could help to translate AutoIt3 code to ahk?

Yes the SAPGUI windows seem very difficult to script.
* All sap easy access screens have the same title - and i always have lots of them open.
* there is no hidden text to identify the SAP server SID
* even WMI for messages posts seems to be deviating from lots of other applications

If i could understand the autoit stuff or someone could bring it to AHK i would be very happy!

next to AutoIt v3...
* AutoItX - DLL/COM control. Add AutoIt features to your favorite programming and scripting languages!
* #include <SAP.au3>

I seem to have found what i was looking for:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic22 ... com+object

The SAP.au3 include does not seem so complex. I even found some stupid assuptions and items for improvement . Will try and reproduce what i need in AHK - if i find the time.

Hi Andi,

I use SAP for some basic stuff here at work - it falls on me to do things like manually update two thousand prices when they haven't bothered buying the ability to do an upload.

I'd love to automate the process with Autohotkey, you seem to be lightyears ahead of me in this regard - all this talk about COMs and hidden text - it's beyond me - I'm stumped at something quite simple: SAP seems to have different window titles depending on what product you have open at any one time - is there any work around for this?

In other words how to I tell AHK that just because the window title has changed to "Maintain range 4871 - blahblahblah - \\Remote" it doesn't mean it's not the same window as when it was "Maintain range 1271 - dadada - \\Remote"" if that makes sense.

Many thanks and good luck with all your SAP stuff. I've got to say, even the calming water drop has got old at this point...

Jack

Thank you, for your replies. I also think, that it would be valuable to get in hand with COM...

@Non-SAP-Fan,
you may try to solve this problem in making use of the command SetTitleMatchMode, 2. Take a look in ahk's Helpfile: Parameter 2 means:
When you define this in the auto-execute section of your script, every thread (hotkey, hotstring...) applies this default value.
Now you can handle the different windows, when you just look for the part, that does not change.

For example:

I don't use SAP but I work through a Citrix client daily with the same limitations. The key (for me anyway) is to use SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx and assign the windows to groups once you've found a title that RegEx matches. For example, in your particular case this should match any of the windows with that name:



It's a bit more difficult to read but, if done correctly, you won't have to mess with it again. See the RegEx Quick Reference for more information.

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Try Quick Search for Autohotkey or see the tutorial for newbies.

I have search this information for several weeks. I think these are helpfully. Ths!

Hi Andi,

SAP GUI window 'controls'
1.
can you 'see' with AHK GetControl the controls of SAP and get it's values(text) ?
2.
do you have to change to SAP 'scripting enabled' or just immedietly
you can get/set SAP window controls ?

I've been succesfully scripting using AHK in SAP for a while now with fairly good success. The biggest down side is I have to introduce an enormous amount of sleeps or the script gets ahead of SAPs inputs and SAP won't cache input commands. I have had good success with SetTitleMatchMode, 1 so that it only matches the beginning of windows titles.

Currently though I am trying to script a very basic input using shift+tab and no matter what I do the window won't accept any hotkey combinations that include tab. if I introduce a long pause I can even manual conduct the input during the sleep successfully. I can use other shift commands fine and other tab commands fine in the same window. I have other scripts that use shift-tab without trouble in the system as well. Why won't this window recognize shift+tab from a script?

Here's a portion of my code

Just a thought but have you tried -

{SHIFTDOWN}{TAB}{SHIFTUP}