The Menu Bar

Menus allow you to find a specific transaction when you do not know the transaction code. The menu is organized according to the task you are doing in the SAP System.

Menus are dropdown; that is, when you choose a menu item, further options appear.

A typical menu bar in the SAP System is shown below:

Features

This following menus are standard on every SAP screen:

Menu	Description
System	Contains functions that affect the system as a whole – such as Create session, User profile, and Log off.
Help	Provides various forms of online help.
	The layout menu, identified by at the far right of the standard toolbar, allows you to customize certain SAP window settings (for example, cursor position and the TAB function).

The following menus are standard in most SAP applications:

Menu	Description
	Usually named after the object you are currently working with, for example, Material. Contains functions that affect the object as a whole – such as Display, Change, Print, or Exit.
Edit	Allows you to edit components of the current object – for example Select, Edit, and Copy. The Cancel option lets you leave a task without saving the data you have entered.
Goto	Allows you to move directly to other screens of the current task. Also contains the Back option, which takes you back one level in the system hierarchy. Before going back, the system checks the data you have entered on the current screen, and displays a dialog box if it detects a problem.

The following menus may also appear:

Menu	Description
Extras	Contains additional functions you can choose to complete the current object or an object component, but which you do not need regularly.
Environment	Contains functions you can choose to display additional information about the current object.
View	Allows you to display the current object in different views, for example, switching between a single-line and double-line display of a table.
Settings	Allows you to set user-specific transaction parameters.
Utilities	Allows you to do object-independent processing, such as delete, copy, and print functions.

Sometimes not all of the available menus fit on one line in the menu bar. In this case, they wrap to the next line. The dropdown principle stays the same.