How to run NWBC NetWeaver Business Client?

After download and installation of NWBC I wondered how to run it. To be precise I had no idea what to enter into the logon screen as parameters. By default screen comes like this in version 4.0 of NWBC:

You need to maintain fields Name and URL. Alternatively you can put description of SAP system connection from your SAP GUI. This would go to field: “SAP GUI Logon Description”. Right after you save entry you can access it. After that you get logon screen:

Clicking on Log On button will display pop-up where you enter user’s logon credentials. In my case I got following error:

However if you have everything configured you should be directly connected to SAP System via NWBC. As per instruction in the error I tried to access NWBC client via web browser with following URL:

http(s)://:8014/sap/bc/nwbc/nwbc_test?sap-client=800

So it looked that everything was running in the browser. I went through all the checks on server side that are required as per online documentation. So I had to make sure that:

1. HTTP(s) service was up and running in my system. I checked that in TA SMICM

2. Service /sap/bc/nwbc  and all its subnodes were active in TA SICF.

3. Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) was established as per profile parameter icm/host_name_full in my system.

4. System security settings: parameter login/accept_sso2_ticket = 1 and login/create_sso2_ticket was equal to 3 but it should be set to 2. So I changed it to 2.

Here’s how same transaction (SE16) looks like in NWBC:

Once I tried to run NWBC I got different screen where I could enter user credentials directly to the screen instead of pop-up. Afterwards I was logged into NWBC:

Finally I want to mention transaction NWBC. This may help you also to identify possible issue with NWBC.

Further information:

900000 - Netweaver Business Client – FAQ

NWBC Online documentation

SAP NetWeaver Business Client - where to download it?

In addition to my older post related to SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC)

I'd like to provide a download link where this software can be downloaded.

Go to OSS and navigate to Software Download Center @ service.sap.com/swdc

-> Download -> Installations and Upgrades -> Installations and Upgrades - Entry by Application Group -> SAP Frontend Components -> NETWEAVER BUSINESS CLIENT -> Installation.


- 20/07/2011 update -
Path on OSS where you can download NWBC has changed.Therefore I'm updating this post:
swdc -> Browse Our Download Catalog -> Installations & Upgrades -> SAP Frontend Components -> NETWEAVER BUSINESS CLIENT -> NWBC NW BUSINESS CLIENT 3.0 ->


- 08/11/2011 update -
Instead of navigating on OSS you can use following shortened URL:

http://goo.gl/oJlzl

for downloading NWBC

Currently there is NWBC NW BUSINESS CLIENT version 3.0 available as of 22.06.2011.

- 04/10/2013 update -
service.sap.com/swdc -> SAP Frontend Components -> NETWEAVER BUSINESS CLIENT -> Browse our Download Catalog

NWBC NW BUSINESS CLIENT 3.5 – part of SAP GUI 7.3 installations

NWBC NW BUSINESS CLIENT 4.0 – download from here http://goo.gl/eGh5i or here.

- 12/08/2014 update -
Again installation files were moved within Download area of SCN. This time navigation is like following: service.sap.com/swdc -> Installations and Upgrades -> N -> NetWeaver Business Client -> currently there are versions 3.5 and 4.0 available

Please notice that links are being changed very often on SAP’s SMP. Therefore if you find broken link on this page go to service.sap.com/swdc and navigate to particular area. Also notice that you need to have valid SMP credentials in order to be able to download SAP’s software.

SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC)

NWBC is a new (first delivered since March 2007 as version 1.0) platform for GUI based on business user approach to SAP applications. NWBC is one of deliverables of project Muse. It does integrates classics SAP’s transactions as so far can be accessible via classic SAP GUI and new web dynpro applications. It runs over HTTP(s) protocol (instead of SAP DIAG protocol which is used by SAP GUI). Main aim is to cross a gap between current SAP GUI (thick client) and web browser (thin client). In principle NWBC is still reach client which is able to run all set of SAP applications: classics transactions and dynpros, BSP pages, BI analytics dashboards, portals pages, iviews, web dynpros and Visual Composer applications.

NWBS does reflect user’s experience (UX) paradigm and SAP design strategy with combining technologies like: User Interface (UI) building blocks (web dynpro and patterns), self services (ESS & MSS), analytics tool (BI), NetWeaver Portal and Collaboration; Duet; SAP Interactive Form by Adobe; blogs, wikis, instant messaging and in future maybe with voice capability (e.g. Text to Speach), UI adoption and personalization, RSS, RFID.

Basically we can access SAP systems based on ABAP Stack of NetWeaver Application Server or (NWBC with ABAP) and JAVA or Enterprise Portal based SAP systems (NWBC with Portal).

How it looks like? Here we go…

To setup access of NWBC to ABAP system (apart of server settings) do following: in menu System -> Preferences; Add new SAP system to be connected via NWBC, specify:

• Name of the system
• Type of system: PORTAL (SAP Enterprise Portal) or ERP (ABAP)
• Protocol: HTTP/HTTPs; Check transaction SMICM -> Goto -> Services in system which is to be connected.
• Host name. Check transaction SMICM ->Goto -> Services.
• Port number. Check transaction SMICM -> Goto -> Services.
• Path specification in the ICF services. Check transaction SICF for node /sap/bc/nwbc/
• System client
• System language
• User name in system

Few more setting of NWBC can be setup in file "X:\Program Files\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\NWBCClient.ini". SAP NetWeaver Business Client is currently only available for Windows platforms. For more details see note “900000 Netweaver Business Client – FAQ”, online documentation and SDN section.

Moreover: are you looking for downloading of NWBC? Check out following post: SAP NetWeaver Business Client - where to download it?