SAP R/3 for Everyone: Step-by-Step Instructions, Practical Advice, and Other Tips and Tricks for Working with SAP

Lesson 8. Navigating Between Screens With Menu Bars

The last three lessons discussed three methods for navigating to the initial screens of transactions from the SAP Easy Access screen. This last lesson concludes this discussion with a brief mention of navigating to initial screens of transactions from other initial and output screens.

Consider these two situations:

• Situation 1: You navigate from the SAP Easy Access screen to the initial screen of a transaction with transaction codes or links, only to realize that you went to the wrong screen. You wanted the initial screen of a transaction that displays the data on an object, but instead you mistakenly navigated to the initial screen of the transaction that creates the data record for that object.

• Situation 2: You execute a transaction that displays the data on an object. Once you see those data, you decide to execute another related transaction on that same object.

In both situations, you could either return to the SAP Easy Access screen and find the correct link for the next transaction in the menu folders, or you could enter the transaction code for its initial screen in the command field to move there. However, there is a third alternative: you can use the menu bar of the screen in front of you to navigate to the desired one.

This short lesson provides some examples of using the menu bar for this purpose.