OKAY, maybe this is a stupid one to share, but I'm going to do it anyway. So indulge and bare with me while I share something that helps me out on a daily basis.
If you are a systems analyst, a regression tester or a super user of SAP you find yourself logging in and out of various SAP environments all day long. For example, today you may be in your QA environment working on some test cases at the same time a support ticket comes in and you need to view a document in a production system. This leads you to having multiple screens of SAP windows open and, well, screen hoping (alt +tab,… alt +tab,+tab). You know what I mean :)
The way I combat this is to color code my SAP environments and visually change the color of each. This can be done by going to the RGB looking monitor button in your icons bar and clicking on the Options… selection.
If you are a systems analyst, a regression tester or a super user of SAP you find yourself logging in and out of various SAP environments all day long. For example, today you may be in your QA environment working on some test cases at the same time a support ticket comes in and you need to view a document in a production system. This leads you to having multiple screens of SAP windows open and, well, screen hoping (alt +tab,… alt +tab,+tab). You know what I mean :)
The way I combat this is to color code my SAP environments and visually change the color of each. This can be done by going to the RGB looking monitor button in your icons bar and clicking on the Options… selection.
Under the Visual Design folder on the left you will find the Color Settings option. Here you can set the color of the environment you are currently in to either Gold, Green, Purple, Red and Signature Default (aka Blue). Select the color you desire and press the Apply button and then the OK button. You will need to log completely out of the environment and log back on before the change will take effect.
If you happen to have two different clients within the same environment you can also color code these individually as well. You will see this if you have a development system specifically for configuration and another for unit testing.
To specify those colors you will follow the same steps as shown above, but now you will click on Colors in System and select a color for this client in the Color Setting for SAP System XXX Client ### section. Then select Apply, OK and log off and log back on to view the color changes
To specify those colors you will follow the same steps as shown above, but now you will click on Colors in System and select a color for this client in the Color Setting for SAP System XXX Client ### section. Then select Apply, OK and log off and log back on to view the color changes
All open sessions for this environment will now be SAP Gold every time I logon to this environment.
And in case you wanted to know, I color code my development as green, QA environments as gold and production is red (like a traffic light). I like red for production to remind me not to attempt to post and make changes that IT users should not.