{"ref":"capability:transaction-code-lookup","page":"/capabilities/transaction-code-lookup","json":"/capabilities/transaction-code-lookup.json","generated":"2026-10-26","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"transaction-code-lookup","name":"Finding a transaction code","domain":"developer-experience","ecosystems":["abap"],"universal":false,"description":"Getting from a task to the code that starts it, and keeping the codes you use within reach. Looking at what a system holds once you are inside one is [browsing table data](capability:abap-data-browsing), and driving its screens as a program is [GUI automation](capability:gui-automation).","short":"Getting from a task to the transaction code that starts it","core_coverage":{"state":"core-and-community","assessed_at":"2026-09-29","what_core_does":"SAP GUI answers this from inside a session. Extras > Technical Details on a menu item of the SAP Easy Access menu shows the code behind it, and Extras > Settings > Display Technical Name shows the code of every item in that menu; the dropdown beside the command field lists the transactions used since logon; and Favorites holds the ones a person adds, labelled with the transaction name.","where_it_stops":"At a session that is already open, and at the menu that logon puts in front of you. A code is found by navigating to its task, in the user menu assigned to you or in the SAP standard menu when yours does not carry it, and the command field's dropdown reaches only what the current logon has used.","sources":[{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_em92/9.2/en-US/4d/6b8ed80f241783e10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — Transaction Codes","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"To find a transaction code for a certain task, place the cursor on the appropriate menu item in the SAP Easy Access menu"},{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_em92/9.2/en-US/4d/6b8ed80f241783e10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — Transaction Codes","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"After refreshing the menu, the system displays the transaction codes of all items from the menu."},{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_em92/9.2/en-US/4d/6b8ed80f241783e10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — Transaction Codes","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"It displays the transaction codes of all transactions you have accessed since you logged on."},{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_nw73ehp1/7.31.19/en-US/1e/10a82969594103a99e1f7962b205b0/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — Creating Favorites","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"Enter the transaction code, and choose Continue. The new item appears at the end of your list, and is automatically labeled with the transaction name."},{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_gbt10/1.0/en-US/4d/6a186850a22b8ae10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — SAP Easy Access","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"If a user menu has been defined by your system administrator, it appears when you log on to the system."},{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_gbt10/1.0/en-US/4d/6a186850a22b8ae10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — SAP Easy Access","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"Open the SAP standard menu by choosing Menu > SAP Menu and use the navigation area to navigate to the items you need."}],"relationship":"unassessed","note":"SAP's answer is part of SAP GUI rather than something published, so there is no artifact on the core side and core-and-community records only that both are present. How a browser page's own list of codes relates to what a given system holds has not been assessed.","community_adds":"Two kinds answer it from outside SAP GUI. A browser page, [ui5-tcode-finder](artifact:mariokernich-ui5-tcode-finder), searches codes by code, title or description, hands one over with the /n or /o prefix in front of it or opens it in SAP GUI for HTML, and keeps favourites, recents and codes of a person's own in the browser. An app installed into the ABAP system, [sapgui](artifact:abap2ui5-addons-sapgui), rebuilds SAP Easy Access in the browser: it browses the system's own area menu `S000` and the Favorites folder, starts a transaction from the command field, and finds a code in a rebuilt SE93 screen."},"coverage_by_flavor":{"abap-cloud":{"state":"not-applicable","assessed_at":"2026-09-29","note":"A transaction code is entered in the SAP GUI command field, and ABAP for Cloud Development has no access to SAP GUI, so there is no command field to type one into and no SAP Easy Access menu to read one off.","sources":[{"url":"https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_em92/9.2/en-US/4d/6b8ed80f241783e10000000a42189b/content.htm?no_cache=true","title":"SAP Documentation — Transaction Codes","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"You enter transaction codes in the command field."},{"url":"https://github.com/SAP-samples/abap-cheat-sheets/blob/main/19_ABAP_for_Cloud_Development.md","title":"SAP-samples/abap-cheat-sheets: ABAP for Cloud Development","checked":"2026-09-29","quote":"There is no access to SAP GUI (transactions `SE80`, `SE24` etc. you may know from classic ABAP)"}]}},"history":[{"date":"2026-09-29","field":"entry","from":null,"to":"created","reason":"A browser tool for searching transaction codes had nowhere to attach, and the nearest nodes are all about something else: browsing table data is the rows a system holds rather than the way into a task, GUI automation drives screens rather than finding them, abap-classic-ui builds them, and documentation is what to read. Named on the ABAP door because a transaction code is an entry point of a classic SAP system, and marked not-applicable in ABAP Cloud, where there is no SAP GUI and so no command field to enter one into. The coverage rests on SAP's own documentation for the in-session routes; nobody has surveyed what else answers this from outside a system, which is why the relationship is unassessed."},{"date":"2026-10-26","field":"core_coverage.note, core_coverage.community_adds","from":"The one entry here carries its own list of codes and reads no system ... / One entry answers it from outside a system: a browser page ...","to":"How a browser page's own list of codes relates to what a given system holds has not been assessed. / Two kinds answer it from outside SAP GUI: a browser page, and an app installed into the ABAP system that rebuilds SAP Easy Access and SE93 ...","reason":"Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): sapgui arrived as a second kind, one that reads the system's own menu, and the prose counted entries."}],"drafted_with_ai":true},"sap_delivery":{"door":"abap","all":null,"by_flavor":{"standard-abap":null,"abap-cloud":null}},"edges":{"use_cases":[],"shared_tasks":[],"related_tasks":[],"options":[{"ref":"artifact:irumudipriyan-sap-tcode-runner","name":"SAP TCode Runner","json":"/artifacts/irumudipriyan-sap-tcode-runner.json","ecosystem":"abap","origin_ring":"independent"},{"ref":"artifact:abap2ui5-addons-sapgui","name":"sapgui","json":"/artifacts/abap2ui5-addons-sapgui.json","ecosystem":"abap","origin_ring":"independent"},{"ref":"artifact:mariokernich-ui5-tcode-finder","name":"ui5-tcode-finder","json":"/artifacts/mariokernich-ui5-tcode-finder.json","ecosystem":"abap","origin_ring":"independent"}],"samples":[],"explained_by":[],"normative_context":[]}}