Well, no-one uses it, and its really bad.

Yeah, no shit Sherlock.

So I kindly informed him that I had previously reported that the SAP web application had stopped working, and had turned into a paint program.  He said, “By any chance do you have the zoom set to anything other than 100%?”

Stunned silence.

As my brain slowly started processing the idea that a client-side zoom setting had caused the ENTIRE application to hang, I realised that I was trying to apply Reason in the first place.  So I simply did what the IT guy said, and checked.

Oh. My. Fracking. God.

Behold – the IE zoom level of death:

IE zoom of death

I set this back to 100%, and wouldn’t you know it, it started working….

….until… <click>

<click>….wait….<click><click>

…. ah yes – we all knew this wasn’t actually going to solve all the problems.  In fact, it has joyfully created another problem.

The report which I had wasted my ENTIRE DAY on is inaccesable from the web client.  The IT guy on the phone said those dreaded words:

“Huh.  Never seen it do that before.”

I said that if I  have to delete my report, and start ALL OVER AGAIN, I would come through the phone and strangle him.  He laughed, but with that tinge of fear caused by the realisation that I might actually manage it, somehow.

The World According to SAP

Select a country from the list of valid countries.  If you don’t select from one of these countries, you will fail to save your expense report, and hours of frustration will go to waste.

Painting the screen with a hung application

Haven’t done that in a while…

IE froze, and anything in front of it was painted on it.  Good work SAP.

This one was great.  I had blocked myself out, and couldn’t continue.

When is NaN.NaN.NaN?

Trying to select the ‹ or › results in the pop-up calender dissapearing, and the curious “Not a Number” date appearing.

Summary: it is not possible to enter a date using the pop-up calender  for other than the current month.

Do you want to proceed?

When logging on to do submit some expenses, I was asked about the Transaction CO Through-postings from F1, and about how they were locked.

You better ask yourself, ”Do you want to proceed?  Well, do ya? Punk?!

Update: Turns out that this means that month has been closed.  It remains to be seen what that means for my expense claim.

(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)

Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?

Serious GUI fail.

Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.

Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:

Both, by the way, kill the client.