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User-Specific Settings
Purpose
You can use this function to adjust the user-specific settings in the ABAP Workbench.

Features
Your personal settings are accessible from the Object Navigator or any other tool in the ABAP Workbench. To
display the settings, choose Utilities → Settings.

ABAP Workbench Tools Settings

Tool Setting Description
Workbench Display background If you set this option, a background picture is displayed in
(general) picture the Object Navigator.
No picture If you set this option, no background picture is displayed.
ABAP Editor Front-End Editor (New) Enables the new Front-End Editor mode of the ABAP Editor.
See also: Front-End Editor (Source Code Mode).

The Front-End Editor is available with SAP GUI

for Windows 6.40 Patch Level 10 or higher. In
order to have the editor integrated into the
ABAP Workbench and use all related
transactions, you need the appropriate SAP
system version. The first version supporting the
new editor is SAP NetWeaver 7.0.
Front-End Editor (Old) Enables the old Front-End Editor. When you work in this
mode, the source code of your program is loaded at the
frontend and can be edited locally. See also: Front-End
Editor (Plain Text Mode).
Back-End Editor The conventional line-based Back-End Editor.
See also: Back-End Editor.
Numbering The options With and Without line numbering apply only to
the old Front-End Editor.
Compression You can use the option With compression logic to compress
logical blocks of ABAP coding. For more information, see
Using Compression Logic.
Path for local editing This is the place where the program is downloaded or stored
temporarily. From there you can also start a local editor.
This option applies only to the Front-End Editor (Plain Text
Mode).
Upper-/lowercase This option is based on the Convert upper/lowercase settings
conversion in display of the Pretty Printer. The Keyword uppercase option is not
mode supported for performance reasons. There is no special
formatting in display mode if this option is not selected.

Pretty Printer Indent Indents lines in the ABAP source code. For example, all
statements belonging to an event are indented by two
characters. See also: Improving the Layout.

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Split-Screen Editor Window arrangement
Comparison operations
Class Builder Display filter
Scope Filter
Screen Painter Graphical layout editor
Menu Painter Output length in status
maintenance
Front-end platform
Function Builder Check syntax in test
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This option allows you to standardize the source code
display.
● Lowercase (for the entire program apart from literals
and comments).
● Uppercase (for the entire program apart from literals
and comments).
● Keyword uppercase (highlights ABAP keywords).
You can arrange the programs either next to each other or
one above the other in the Split-Screen Editor.
If you choose Ignore indentations, the system recognizes
the program lines as identical as long as they have the same
contents, even if they are indented differently.
If you choose Ignore comments, the system recognizes
program lines as identical as long as they have the same
contents apart from comments appended using <">.
The Ignore upper-/lowercase setting is initial.
For more information, see Special Split-Screen Functions.
Options for displaying the components of global classes or
interfaces in the Class Builder. They allow you to extend or
restrict the standard display.
Restricts the display of class components to instances or
static components.
If you set this option, the system uses the graphical layout
editor in the Screen Painter. If the option is not set, the
system starts the alphanumeric editor.
Function code: The function code field in the Menu Painter
can be set to allow input length between 4 and 20
characters.
Text length: The text field for function texts in the Menu
Painter can be set to allow input length between 10 and 40
characters.
Note that these user-defined settings are only valid in the
status maintenance screen of the Menu Painter.
Front-End: All function codes maintained in the Menu Painter
are platform-independent but the function key names are not.
By selecting a platform, you ensure that the function keys
are labeled using the convention of the selected platform.
When you test a function module, the system can check the
syntax of the function group to which the function module
belongs.
To improve performance in the Function Builder test
environment, this option is switched off by default.
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