New UI5-based User Interface

For more than 25 years, SAP customers around the world have been using ActiveControl to help deliver change to their SAP applications in a safe and efficient manner.

Over this time, ActiveControl has evolved in many ways – but always on top of the core underlying technology and the long-standing Windows GUI and bsp-based Web UI.

During early 2021, Basis Technologies initiated a 2-year ‘Web Platform’ project to replace the existing Windows GUI and Web UI with a single new UI5-based User Interface.

Web Platform – Objectives

The key objectives of this project were as follows:

1. To modernise the ActiveControl front-end.
2. To deprecate the Windows GUI (and legacy bsp-based Web UI), to help facilitate easier Customer implementations and upgrades​ of ActiveControl.
3. To deliver many historical Features that were difficult to deliver on the legacy Windows GUI and Web UI, such as the enablement of mobile device access to ActiveControl.
4. To introduce more internal automated regression testing, to enable more stable ActiveControl releases and cumulative patches, and facilitate Basis Technologies to increase the frequency of ActiveControl releases in the future.

* Please note that most of the key concepts of ActiveControl and existing configuration of ActiveControl do NOT change as a result of the Web Platform. As such, existing Basis Technologies’ customers should not be overly concerned that they will need to perform a migration exercise to move from current ActiveControl over to the Web Platform, above and beyond the change management element of training existing users on the new User Interface. All new configuration options introduced with the ActiveControl Web Platform will generally only be required because the new ActiveControl Web Platform introduces many new features that have been requested by customers over the years.

Web Platform – Phases & Timeline

Basis Technologies have delivered the new ActiveControl Web Platform UI in a 2-phase approach, as follows:

Deprecation of legacy UIs

Further details of when the current Windows GUI and WebUI will be deprecated and removed from ActiveControl can be found in End of Maintenance Support section of the Administration Guide.