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Simplifying a multi-screen transaction with Personas
Most of my previous Personas blogs have looked at techniques for building a launchpad for users, so that they can do everything they need from the main SAP start screen without ever running, or at...
View ArticleThe perils of the browser back button
Yesterday I ran a hands-on session with some of the target users for our first Personas application. This was the first time end users had been given hands-on access to it - previous user feedback had...
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Personas, Safari and OS X Mavericks (10.9)
When OS X Mavericks became available last week, being the nerd I am, I upgraded pretty much straight away. Everything I care about has continued to work as it did before the upgrade. Except one thing -...
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Putting everything together - the finished Personas project
I've written a few blogs now about the various techniques I've used while building our Personas project. It is about time I wrote about what happens when you put them all together. We started with a...
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Personas and ERP upgrades
One Personas question I've been asked several times now is, "How is Personas affected by ERP upgrades?" That is, what happens to your flavours and scrips when you upgrade or patch ERP6? Do they carry...
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Creating a custom table in Personas
One common question people ask is, "How do I create a custom table in a Personas flavour?" The standard answer is that you can't - Personas does not have a table object you can add to a flavour and...
View ArticlePurchase order release in Personas
My first Personas project joined together a lot of transactions - 23 in total - into a single package designed to simplify SAP interactions for a relatively small group of users. You can read about...
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Data caching in Personas scripts
Personas scripting has actions for copying data from SAPgui screens and pasting it back elsewhere. This is very commonly used to copy data between screens, or even between transactions. That basic...
View ArticleBusiness Suite on HANA course review (MOOCs are a team game?)
I've just finished watching the content for the Course: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Since we're just beginning to think about our HANA plan, it sounded like a good investment of time. A...
View ArticleSAP Screen Personas at SapphireNOW
It was an interesting week for Personas at Sapphire. Bill McDermott announced in his keynote that Fiori was now included with NetWeaver user licences and no longer a chargeable item. What he didn’t say...
View ArticleCreating Passionate Users
The reaction to the ASUG survey about HANA, resulting in, amongst other things this blog and this response, has got me thinking. The problem seems to be that SAP have what they think is a great...
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SIT Sheffield - post match report
This year's UK Inside Track was in Sheffield, hosted by Steve Lofthouse at Sheffield Hallam University. It was attended by about 60 people - almost twice as many as last year.Sheffield is a city centre...
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Personas at the UK & Ireland SAP User Group conference
With barely enough time to recover from TechEd Berlin (see Peter Spielvogel's blog TechEd 2014 Summary - SAP Screen Personas, Fiori, and the simplified UX) I was off to the UK & Ireland SAP User...
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Personas v3, JavaScript and tables
Peter Spielvogel is doing a great job of covering the basic JavaScript skills you need to write Personas scripts in version 3 with the same level of functionality as scripts in version 2. I thought I'd...
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TechEd Amsterdam 2013 wrap-up
This was always going to be a slightly different TechEd for me. Firstly I am a Mentor now. There are lots of Mentor-specific events, meetings with senior executives, etc. My agenda was already looking...
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