Open Sap Session Step

Brief description

This step opens an SAP session by starting the SAP Logon process and connecting to the desired SAP system instance. It requires information about the SAP executable file, instance configuration, and user login credentials. Subsequent SAP automation steps that interact with this session must reference it using the SAP reference parameter.

Step Information

Step Name (Not required)– the custom name of the process step that labels the editor’s process step box

Input parameters

• Full path to sap exe (Required) – specifies the full path to the SAP Logon executable file (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\saplogon.exe)
• Instance name (Required) – specifies the unique SAP connection instance name
• Language (Required) – specifies the language code to be used during login (e.g., EN for English)
• Client number (Required) – specifies the SAP client number
• Username (Required) – SAP username for login
• Password (Required) – SAP user password

Output parameters

• Login error details (Not required) – variable name that stores any login error information
• SAP reference (Required) – specifies the SAP session reference used to identify and interact with the opened SAP session in subsequent steps

Additional comments

When automating an SAP process, this step is used to open and authenticate into the SAP system.

All subsequent SAP automation steps must use the same SAP reference value to connect actions to this session.
If you change the SAP reference name, make sure to update it in all related steps.