SAP GUI History not getting saved

[tholuganti]

Issue:

SAP GUI History (backspace) for fields is not getting saved.

Pre-Requisites:

• - Close all your SAP sessions including your SAP logon pad

Resolution/Procedure:

• Go to Windows Start > All Programs > SAP Front End > SAP GUI Configuration (1)


• In your GUI Configuration options click on ‘Local Data’ folder (2) and then ‘History’ (3)


• Change history status to ‘OFF’ (4) and click on ‘Apply’ (7)


• Click on history status back to ‘ON’ (5) and click on ‘Apply’ (7)


• Click ‘Clear History’ (6) button and finally click ‘OK ’ (8) to close this window

• Now navigate to C:\users\<User name>\AppData\Roaming\SAP\SAP GUI\History (9)
  
  
  
  • If you do not see AppData folder then you will have to enable show hidden folders in the windows folder option menu (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7)
  
  
  
  


• Here you will find MDB file which is usually named ‘SAPHistory<username>.mdb (10)


• Delete this file

Now this should take care of the history not getting saved. Reopen SAP GUI and try it out!

Special Thanks to my friend amritpal.flora

 

Regards,

Raj Kumar Reddy

[Former Member]

Thanks, this helped!

[pathikpandya]

Thanks a lot. I was getting bit annoyed on my new desktop, this resolved the problem.

Regards,

Pathik

 

[michal_psenko]

Thanks for this procedure, it helped me to fix my issue. I am currently on SAP GUI version 7.4 (Patch 12).

Regards,

Michal

[R_R]

Thanks !

[former_member416479]

Super TQ... It;s working fine. Really getting annoyed on typing the full length of FM. Thumbs up

[former_member189862]

Thanks it started working fine 🙂

[former_member477788]

Excellent , It worked.

[sandy_s1]

It worked for me too.. Thanks

[minhaj_ahmed2]

Thank you its worked after deleting file from C folder.

[former_member247495]

 

Thank you very much indeed! This worked perfectly.

[former_member509619]

Very Nice....It worked for me.

[Former Member]

Thank you....Excellent solution...It worked...

[Former Member]

Hi,

 

Will this procedure retain old history?

[douglas_linkup]

Tks!! Helped me.

[Former Member]

i have created an account just to say Thank you!!

[Former Member]

I am having same problem..After the procedure also problem not resolved..Can u solve this problem.

[former_member553256]

Thank you!

Regards,

Bence

[tholuganti]

Hi Vijaya,

Would love to help, please send me more info (direct message) so I can check further.

Regards,

Raj

 

[tholuganti]

Hi Rohit,

I believe this procedure solves the history problem but may not save old history — do test it out on a sandbox and let me know.

Regards,

Raj

 

[Former Member]

Thanks - this helped!

[Former Member]

wow... Thank you.. now its working...

[Former Member]

Hi Raj,

Thank you!!! I It working well.

Regards,

Zaman

[former_member258170]

Thanks a lot... good solution. It worked

[lgacimar]

It's working again!!! Thanks!!!

[Former Member]

I was struggling for so long after applying a patch on my GUI installation. Thank you for the fix.

 

It’s good to be working normally again and not pasting table names in notepad!

 

 

[hasib1]

 Great !! Worked like a charm. Thanks. 

[Former Member]

Thank you so much Raj...It really worked !

[jeff_mayfield2]

Thanks Raj.  Fantastic instructions.

I don't know what makes this function break but your solution fixes users every time.

[Livia]

OMG that finally worked! Thank you so much!

I've been trying and suffering for days, after upgrading from version 740 to 750, when the history stopped working.
I've tried everything but it didn't work until now. Although I had to change one thing because it didn't worked right away: I had changed the History folder to a new one.

Then I had to do your directions 2 times:
1st to eliminate existing history .md file and then, changing the history folder back to the Default one.

2nd, followed your directions again, now with the default History folder set up.
After that, it worked.

Thanks again!

[former_member201541]

Hello Raj,

I tried your steps for saving object list history, initially it did work for some days but again after few days the history got deleted automatically. Can you please help me to save the history permanently.

I'm using SAP GUI 740 application and also connecting to SAP application via citrix.

 

Thank you.

 

[tholuganti]

Hi Ajinkya,

Citrix is a bit different and may not work with this solution. You can check this note 1927001 which may be applicable.

 

Regards,

Raj

[jude_bradley]

FYI: 7.40 is out of support already, consider using 7.50 at the earliest time.

 

[former_member600309]

Thanks, great tutorial! Worked for me (still) running GUI 7.40.

 

[saranyaramarajan22]

 

Hi,

We have the History status on already but some users not getting the cache values in some days and getting in some days.its strange..Turning off the history settings and turning on will help to solve the issue?

[tholuganti]

Hi Saranya,

You can try that but this procedure that I have mentioned has always worked for me.

 

Regards,

Raj

 

[pratik_shrivastav]

Worked like a charm! Thanks!!

[former_member628841]

Thanks a lot! It worked like a charm to me too!

[former_member611825]

worked, thx Raj

[khushali1910]

Thankyou .. this was really helpful

 

 

[akumar_678571]

Thank you. it solved the problem . Great

[petlachovaja]

Thank you very much. It solved my  problem too,

[rajesh2203]

Thank you, this solved my issue!!

 

But i have one more doubt which you might help, i am not able to open E-Learning Application from option Help, shows below error

Error in calling web browser on your frontend

Message No. 1R003

Diagnosis

You tried to start a Web browser on your frontend computer, type , using URL  (first 50 characters of the URL). An error occurred.

System Response

The current configuration of the frontend computer does not allow navigation to the URL.

Procedure

Check the following settings, according to your frontend:

• JAVA:

-

• WN32 and WN32_95:

Is an appropriate Web browser installed ? Is the specified URL linked with the Web browser?

• WN or WN32S:

Is an appropriate Web browser installed? Is the file extension '.HTM' linked with the Web browser?

• PM:

Is an appropriate Web browser installed? Was Report 'RSSOSPPC' used to link the file extension '.HTM' with the Web browser on the current frontend computer?

• MC:

Is an appropriate Web browser installed under the creator 'MSIE' or 'MOSS'?

• MF:

Is an appropriate Web browser installed?

 

[tholuganti]

Hi Rajesh,

I don't know your basis version but I found this on the web.. you can look at Note 1136003 which may be applicable for you.

 

Regards

[former_member255722]

Thanks..This helped

[former_member701353]

It has worked. Thank you for the post!

[jaime_rodriguez_jr]

Hello, this definitely works

Thanks a million

[former_member762371]

It worked.

 

I was previously turning off the setting and then on but it was not working but after deletion of file it worked.

 

 

Thank you so much

[shakirali7]

Hello,

This has not worked for me, maybe it is not suitable for GUI 7.4. There is another file that need to be deleted that is "SAPHistory<user>.db"

Regards,

M.Shakir

[msavadk]

Thanks .. Works for me ..

[former_member854459]

Hello, It is working first time but when I close my sap gui and open, history couldn't save again. So I need to repat all this proccess every time. Could you please help?