SAP GUI 730 Branding Option Grayed-out

Issue – The Branding option under SAP GUI 730 -> Visual Design might be grayed out after installing SAP GUI 730 and you were not allowed to select a Branding image as shown in the below screen shot:

Cause – This is not an issue and by default this feature is set to Read-only mode.

Solution – This can be enabled easily by changing the Registry entries. Detailed steps on enabling this featured was discussed in the SAP Note 1669254 – SAP GUI 7.30: Branding image in titlebar.

For those who hesitate modifying the registry or not good at registry tweaking, use the below tweaking files. These allows to enable/disable the Branding option easily. (Read Readme_First.txt file before you use the files.)

SAPGUI_Branding 53.77 KB

Download SAPGUI Branding

Once the Branding option is enabled, you can select an image file (Recommended size is 160 X 27) as shown in the below screen shot:

Click Apply and you can see the branding as below in the logon screen and the SAP Easy Access Screen:

NOTE: Incase if you wish to disable the branding options again, use the disable tweaking files.

Author - Raghu Boddu

Raghu Boddu is a SAP Certified Technology Professional (Security), Comptia Security+ , ITIL V3 Foundation, and PRINCE2 Certified. He is an SAP Security/GRC solution architect with rich expertise in implementation & redesigning of Security in SAP. He is also a master in SAP Forensic Security. He is a regular blogger on topics like Security, Governance & Compliance, Application Security, Technology and other trending topics. He is well known to the community with his easy to understand articles.

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