Using The Folders for Transaction Favorites in SAP

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Executive Summary

Favorite organization in SAP.
Importing and exporting favorites.

Introduction

It’s common to see people use the favorites functionality within SAP. However, it’s much less common to see people use folders. I find folders to be very beneficial because first, it takes time to scan many favorites, and secondly, I end up creating so many favorites that I need some way to organize them. You can see below I have several folders created that hold my favorites.

Favorites are probably more important in APO and SAP ERP because APO transactions are always a longer and a pain to type (unlike SAP ERP’s 4 space code) and more difficult to remember. For this reason, favorites allow one to cut down on the horizontal and vertical scrolling and folder opening and closing.

Importing and Exporting Favorites

One of the limiting factors in favorites is that they do not automatically show up in the other instances that companies I work at bring up. However, because I invest time organizing my favorites and folders, I like to port them between instances. This is easy to do and can be actioned by simply selecting the menu path below:

SAP does not define a file type, but I have found a .txt extension works. I typically use one system to make all my changes and then port the favorites and folders to the three of four other boxes that I work in. I find it quite helpful.