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As with many other technologies and techniques, there are pros and cons for each approach. Depending on the type of developer you are, you might find that a certain approach better fits your intended use case and skill set.
There will be occasions when combining both techniques will be beneficial, like adding a VBScript action with some Excel VBA code to support advanced formatting as part of your action-based automation.
Here's a summary of the two approaches.
Feature | VBScript | Actions |
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Citizen developer play | ![]() |
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IT pro and pro developer play | ![]() |
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Faster development | ![]() |
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Faster execution | ![]() |
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Lower maintenance | ![]() |
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Multilevel exception-handling support | ![]() |
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Resilient to UI changes and versioning | ![]() |
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Reusability support | ![]() |
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Requires individual UI element capturing | ![]() |
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Requires SAP scripting configurations | ![]() |
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Supports silent and resilient sign-in with sapshcut.exe | ![]() |
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Takes advantage of the SAP internal recording engine | ![]() |
Events
Power BI DataViz World Championships
Feb 14, 4 PM - Mar 31, 4 PM
With 4 chances to enter, you could win a conference package and make it to the LIVE Grand Finale in Las Vegas
Learn more