Enabling Scripts for SAP

Brief Overview

WalkMe Desktop uses SAP scripts to access and play guidance content on the SAP environment.

These scripts need to be enabled from the client-side and from the server-side in order for WalkMe to work.

How to Check if Scripts are Enabled

1. Hover over the SAP GUI Scripting icon
2. If the scripts are not running, a pop-up message will appear:
   
3. If the scripts are disabled, the pop-up message will say:
4. If the scripts are disabled on the client side, the pop-up message will say:
5. If you don't see any of the icons, click the Triangle icon to expand the icons bar

Enabling Scripts on the Client Side

Scripts need to be enabled on the client-side (end user). When deploying, this can be done by the SAP admin.

To access the menu:

1. Click the Settings icon in the top right corner
2. Click Options...
   
   

To enable scripts:

1. Select Scripting under the Accessibility & scripting folder
2. Tick Enable scripting and Show native Microsoft Windows dialogs
3. Click Apply

Learn more about enabling scripts here.

Enabling SAP GUI Scripting on the Server Side

1. Launch saplogon.exe, sign in to your SAP server using your credentials
   1. The SAP Easy Access window opens
2. Run transaction RZ11:
3. Specify the parameter name sapgui/user_scripting and press Enter on the keyboard or click Display

4. In the Display Profile Parameter Attributes window, press the Change Value button on the toolbar and set the New value of sapgui/user_scripting to TRUE
   

5. Save the changes

6. Repeat Steps 3-4, with a FALSE value for the following parameters:

   1. sapgui/user_scripting_force_notification

   2. sapgui/user_scripting_set_readonly

   3. sapgui/user_scripting_disable_recording 

7. Sign off and back on again to see the change into effect, as it does not apply to sessions that are currently running.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SAP\SAPGUI Front\SAP Frontend Server\Security\ScriptingPerUserAccountExecute = 1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\SAP\SAPGUI Front\SAP Frontend Server\Security\ScriptingPerUserAccountExecute = 1

sapgui/user_scripting = TRUE
sapgui/user_scripting_set_readonly = TRUE
sapgui/user_scripting_per_user = TRUE