SAP User Interface Guidelines
Introduction | Current Public SAP UI Guidelines | SAP UI Guidelines for SAPGUI Applications | Obsolete UI Guidelines | See Also...
By Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience, Infrastructure – February 11, 2010
On this page, we present an overview of current SAP's UI Guidelines that have been released to the public as well as guidelines that are still valid.
Introduction
UI Guidelines are critical to ensuring consistency across products and product lines and enhancing the user experience. SAP User Experience designs these guidelines and works with development to ensure they are realized in the SAP NetWeaver platform.
For
an introduction to SAP's UI guidelines see User
Interface Guidelines – An
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Current Public SAP UI Guidelines
Regarding current guidelines, only the CRM guidelines have been released to the public:
SAP UI Guidelines for SAPGUI Applications
Guidelines for SAPGUI applications are no longer explicitly maintained, but
are nevertheless binding for this technology.
They are part of the R/3 documentation and available in the development environment.
Obsolete SAP UI Guidelines
As many SAP customers and partners still use older version of SAP software,
there is still a need for providing obsolete SAP UI guidelines.
You will find outdated SAP UI guidelines and papers in:
See Also...
The following guidelines provide recommendations to partners to help ensure that their solutions adhere to architectural approaches, standards, and industry best practices similar to the ones used by SAP, lowering customers' integration, training, administration, and upgrade costs.
- SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications that integrate with SAP Business Suite (SDN; the guidelines are available as a PDF document from the site) new
