History

Version 1.0

Published on 02/10/03, authored by Masahiro Tairako and Jason W. Cherry from the BU MBS Dev.II (SAP Labs Japan), edited by Joëlle Carignan and Ben Tomsky from the User Experience Group (SAP Labs), reviewed by Clare Johnson and Udo Arend from the Usability Engineering Center (SAP AG).

Version 1.1

Published on 04/30/03, changes by Joëlle Carignan. Date navigator in collaboration with Jason W. Cherry, Prithipal Singh, Masahiro Tairako, and Ben Tomsky. Review corrections published on 06/30/03. Review by Clare Johnson. Last corrections 08/18/03.

New and Modified

  • Modified title
  • Added requirements to introduction
  • New guidelines for use of headers, column header alignment, writing titles and labels, confirmation messages, data preservation, row consistency, and field alignment.
  • Added dimensions to some elements (scroll bar, headers, etc.)
  • Renamed detail pages to tab pages
  • Removed group box header from tab pages
  • New section on message bar, edit fields and dialog boxes
  • New date navigator and time picker
  • New examples for search bar and search page
  • New filtering methods and examples
  • Modified structure levels and labels
  • Added new icons: OK, Reset, Filter, Text Display, Long Text, Help
  • Added link colors
  • Corrected inactive tab text color to Blue (instead of Black)
  • Changed inactive text in tabstrip to bold
  • Simplified colors and text format tables
  • Simplified and restructured pages

Review June 13, 03

  • Deleted navigation bar for ME Home page.
  • Removed Next link from group box header
  • Deleted dialog box for critical error messages
  • Deleted shuffler
  • Prohibited filtering tabs and nested tabs
  • Added sort icon to indicate which column is sorted
  • Added the sort on the column header (link)
  • Spaced paging icons
  • Revised time picker
  • Removed Previous (<) and Next (>) icons from icon library

Corrections August 08, 03

  • Search button moved to left
  • Moved pages to right side of group box footer

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Source:  SAP Style Guide for PDA Applications