SAP UI themes

Over the years SAP came with many themes for their UI technologies like SAP GUI, Web Dynpro for ABAP/Java, ITS (SAP GUI for HTML), BSP, HTMLb, BI, JSF, NetWeaver Business Client, Enterprise Portal, SAP UI5, SAP CRM UI and etc. In this blog post, I mention few of major ones.

First, there are two main categories of the SAP UI themes based on Unified Rendering (UR):

·        UR Classic = Unified Rendering Classic or UR 1.0

·        LS = Unified Rendering Lightspeed or UR 2.0

In general the UR is a SAP proprietary HTML rendering and JavaScript library for SAP UI technologies.

Frameworks (UI technologies) that use UR Classic are (at this point of time):

·        Web Dynpro ABAP (WDA-UR): SAP NetWeaver 7.00, SAP NetWeaver 7.10 

·        Web Dynpro Java (WDA-UR):  all SAP Netwaever releases out of maintenance ( <= SAP NetWeaver 7 EhP2 (7.02) )

·        Business Server Pages (BSP)

·        HTMLB for Java

·        SAP BEx Web Analyzer (Business Intelligence - BI)

Frameworks (UI technologies) that use UR are (at this point of time):

·        Web Dynpro ABAP (WDA-LS): >= SAP NetWeaver 7 EhP1, >= SAP NetWeaver 7.11

·        Web Dynpro Java (WDJ-LS): >= SAP NetWeaver 7.10)

·        SAPGUI for HTML (HTMLGUI-LS): ABAP kernel integrated ITS

·        Lightspeed Server Faces (LSF)

SAP GUI themes:

SAP Belize Theme – started in 2016, adopted Fiori 2 theme for classic applications

SAP Blue Crystal Theme – started in 2013 came with a new color scheme (blue and white), revised UI elements, revised SAP GUI icons, it was inspired by the Blue Crystal Design in SAP Fiori.

Corbu Theme – started in 2012 came with reduced contrast and revised SAP GUI icons

SAP Signature Theme – started in 2008 as of SAP GUI 7.4, the theme was offered for all SAP UI technologies in order to ensures the harmonization of different UIs

System Dependent Theme – inherits theme from SAP backend system

Tradeshow Theme – refined Streamline Theme

Streamline Theme – introduced first for SAP Enterprise Portal product

Enjoy Theme – started in 1999 as of SAP GUI 4.6

Classic Theme – started in 1999, OS Windows theme up to Windows 2000

For details see also post called: SAP GUI visual designs.

Fiori 3 themes:

SAP Quartz (Light/Dark)

Fiori 2 themes:

SAP Belize (Deep/Contrast White/Contrast Black)

Fiori 1 themes:

SAP Blue Crystal

SAP NetWeaver 7 EhP2 themes:

SAP Corbu

SAP Gold Reflection - alias for SAP Corbu theme

Custom themes can be created with SAP UI Theme Designer and  Portal Theme Editor:

SAP Tradeshow

SAP Tradeshow Plus - also known as SAP Signature Design

More information:

710719 - SAP GUI family and visual designs ("themes")

2000110 - Unified Rendering

2124106 - Themes for Unified Rendering based UI technologies (Web Dynpro ABAP/Java, BSP, SAP GUI for HTML, BI, JSF)

Web Dynpro ABAP theming support matrix