SAP GUI Automation via Python Scripting

Tools needed to test things out:

• VS Code - to edit python scripts and run them
• Python Extension for VS Code
• Python installed on your computer
• SAP Scripting Tracker
• win32com python module installed

This VSCode tutorial can help get you set up with VS Code, Python Extension for VS Code, and Python Installation:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/python-tutorial

SAP Scripting Tracker:

https://tracker.stschnell.de/#download

Enable Scripting in application server and presentation server

Application Server

• Login to SAP
• Go to tcode RZ11
• Param. Name: sapgui/user_scripting, click Display
• Ensure Current Value is equal to TRUE
• If value not TRUE
  • Press Change Value button
  • New value: TRUE
  • Switch on all servers: Checked
  • Save

Presentation Server

• On SAP Logon Pad, click the top left menu button, and select Options...
• Open the Accessibility & Scripting Node
• Select Scripting node
• Ensure the Installation Section says "Scripting is installed"
• Ensure the User Settings section has
  • Enable Scripting - Checked
  • Notify when a script attaches to SAP GUI - Unchecked
  • Notify when a script opens a connection - Unchecked
  • Show native Microsoft Windows dialogs - Unchecked

Additional details about SAP Scripting Tracker can be found in the documentation within the download

Installing win32com python module

• Open command line or terminal
• pip install py32com
• If it was installed successfully, it should be available to use in your scripts

Running this script

Pull this repo into your VS Code editor, and follow the directions in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/python-tutorial

Note: You must login to an SAP session, for the scripting to work. As you can see there is not login credentials supplied to the python scripting