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Hey Dirk!
I’ve been working on a considerable training project and have generated over 200 simulations (and have used your site countless times). Unfortunately, we’ve now been asked if there is a way to include Step navigational control in simulations (which is currently switched off). As far as I know, the only way to do this is to highlight each Step within an individual sim and tick the ‘Show in Progress Display’ checkbox. This is obviously not ideal to repeat 200 times. I’m wondering if there is a global parameter which can be changed which will adjust every simulation to include the Step ‘point’ in the progress bar. Thanks in advance!
Ah, the joys of changing approach mid-project. If only they’d learn to listen to us from the start 😉 So the bad news is no, not really – there’s no global setting that will select all those checkboxes in all the simulations. What you can do (as you most likely know) is you can use Edit > Select macros by type within the project editor and change all screens within a simulation at once, so it’s only 200x and not 200 x number of screens… But f you’re technically-minded you could use something like Notepad++ to search and replace across your entire local Producer workarea in one fell swoop – that should work (although you’ll probably need to Start Editing them all first – and maybe take a backup as I’ve never actually done it myself…) – change all project.dpr files and replace show=”0″ with show=”1″.
Hi Dirk
I am totally going to exploit that your page was the first hit on google when searching for answer ;).
I have just “found” Enable now, and am thrilled, so started my first courses….basically just followed Joost from SAP and made a simulation in SAP and Powerpoint and generated it in companion. But for the companion to activate and my simulation to be shown, i need to be in the exact powerpoint presentation in which I did the simulation….Enable now is more flexible than that, right? If I have made content concerning eg. Powerpoint, it should show in any powerpoint.
isnt it possible to change the “link” generated between my PPT and the simulation, so its generic?
/torben
Hi, Torben:
So I’m the first result in Google? That’s great!
OK, so you are using SAP Companion for Desktop (f.k.a. Desktop Assistant), correct? One of the pieces of ‘context’ SAP Enable Now captures is the page/window name – which for Microsoft Office documents is typically the document title – so, if you record against a newly-opened PowerPoint presentation, the page name will be captured as “Presentation 1 – PowerPoint”. This means that if you open any other presentation, your help will not be shown, as the context doesn’t match. What you need to do is ‘neutralize’ the page keys – to basically remove the “Presentation 1” and just “match against any presentation”. That’s a tricky / potentially complex area, but as a hint, it’s on menu option Tools > Context Administration > Maintain Page Key Attributes.
You may also find the following video helpful: https://youtu.be/63bSd_M5OC8?si=GgM8WwZ1pC-y-a-7
Well, you have now also become a member of my favorite bar, just next to SAP Event Mesh, SAP WM and SAP Partner portal ;).. Was in there initially, but lost my way. Your nudge gave me the persistence I needed and now it works as it should. Thanks for the incredible fast response!
I feel like a guy with a shovel and an urge to dig! Its going to be a great hole!
Br
Torben
Hi Dirk,
I experienced a weird error- While editing the simulation I don’t see any default texts in my Practice text bubble boxes. But the default text appears when I am playing it. Cannot understand this issue. Can you please help.
HI Dirk, How are you?
Is there a report that indicates in a simple way that it shows the user and the courses that they finished? (name, course and completed)
Thank you!
Yes. There is the User Report that shows what content a user has consumed; there’s also the User by Assignment report which shows progress against assigned courses. BUT you need to create assignments, and you need to activate tracking.
Hi Dirk,
can SAP Companion be configured for S/4HANA Webdynpros? They run in the browser but there is no question mark even Companion is correctly configured and is working well for Fiori Apps.
Thanks,
Peter
Possibly, but there’s a lot of variables. First off, if it is ECC 6.0 WebDynpro transactions being launched from Fiori, and the ECC 6.0 system is on the same server, then it should be possible. Usually the reason you don’t see anything is that there is no help available, and noHelpMode is set to hide. Change it to carousel and see if the (?) appears. Finally, if you are launching WebDynpro transactions you’ll probably need to use the enableClassicIntent=true parameter – both for recording and for playback.
Thanks for the information.
Hello Dirk!
I have a problem in a book in SAP Companion for Desktop, on one bookpage there are links to simulations. The problem is that the simulation opens in a new window, but the current page of the book is impossible to close and go to the simulation in the other window. In addition, the client would like the simulation opened from the page link to be superimposed on it and not open another tab. I know that it is possible that when opening a link it overlaps what is there and that a superscript 2 appears in the escape cross and that when it is exited it returns to normal. How is it possible to achieve this?
Hi Dirk,
For my work are I’m trying to add a custom prefix to my published content so progress can be tracked.
However I cannot find where the option is to add the custom prefix.
Could you help me out here?
Select your Workarea in Producer (the very topmost entry), expand Start Links on the right, and you’ll find the Custom Prefix field. I don’t think it will do what you want it to, though – it’s really designed for publishing externally, not tracking.
Thank you for your answer Dirk!
It did exactly what I was looking for. I do have a follow up question.
Our customer wants a complete overview of all links to the individual simulations for their own documentation. Is there any way we can extract this from the manager or the producer?
Yes, assuming you are very consistent in the creation of these documents (exactly the same documents created for all simulations). In Producer, select the Group containing your simulations, and select use Tools > Workarea Structure > Export Structure. Filter Column c to show only projects. Locate the public_link column – that is the Published View start link. You need to add the document type to the end of this (you can use a Formula). So if the link is: https://expert.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/training/index.html?show=project!PR_ECCDAE44BBF5BBA2 and you want a link to the PDF version of the Hands On guide, you would append “/hands_on.pdf”, to give: https://expert.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/training/index.html?show=project!PR_ECCDAE44BBF5BBA2/hands_on.pdf.
Hi Dirk, how are you?
I have a question.
I need to send the Desktop Assistant file (navigator.senl) to 300 users in bulk, can I do it through GPO? Or through what other system?
Thank you so much
No, you don’t want to distribute the .senl file. That is tied to the current SAP Enable Now version, and will stop working when SAP Enable Now is upgraded. What you want to distribute is a LINK TO that file, so it is downloaded new every time (and tell your users to NEVER save it and re-use it). The URL you should distribute should be in the format https://{client}.enable-now.cloud.sap/wa/{workarea}/~tag/published/da/DA_XXXXXXXXXXXXX/.inav where DA_XXXXXXXX is the UID of your Desktop Assistant object. You/your users should set their browser / Windows settings to ‘always open files of type .senl’ (how to do this depends on the version of Windows but you usually get prompted. HTH
Hi Dirk
When you start a simulation in SAP Companion (for desktop) it doesn’t show the simulation start page and the second step which is a book page, it goes directly to the third step where you have an action. Is there a way to show the initial steps? Since it has relevant information for the process
Possibly the first and second steps don’t have the screen context captured for them, or are set to Exclude from SAP Companion? SAP Companion for Desktop will do its best to identify the step you are on and jump straight to that, so you’re not paging through a bunch of steps you’ve already completed before you started the Guided Tour. If that’s not it, consider opening an Incident for SAP to take a look at it.
Hi Dirk!
Is there a way to send an email to notify learners of a content change?
Sure. I do that all the time for my courses. In Manager, select Administration > Messages, select the Role or OU you want to send the message to, and type away. It will only let you select one recipient from there, but usually ‘the role/OU to which the course is assigned’ is what you want anyway. If you want to send to multiple recipients, you can do so by selecting them on the Users, Roles, or Organizational Units screen and then clicking the Messages button at the bottom of the list.