This is the least of SAP's crimes against software. Pretty much everything SAP builds is janky and awful like this. If you're lucky, "minor" UX problems like t

This is the least of SAP's crimes against software. Pretty much everything SAP builds is janky and awful like this. If you're lucky, "minor" UX problems like these are the only thing you have to deal with, but in the vast majority of cases, that's not going to be the case. Where I work, I also have to use a SAP system for expense reports. I can't even tell you what it's called, but the interface is basically just directly from SAP GUI(except embedded, very poorly, into a website) and every single interaction you perform results in a sync query to the backend, freezing the UI until you get a response. The worst part is that no one really cares. SAP doesn't care. The users/companies that are stuck with SAP don't really care, or at least if they do, well, no one is going to spend valuable dev time on building their own internal expense registration platform(or whatever) just to fix something that sucks to use, but otherwise "works". I also have to register my hours, being a consultant, and this also happens via some SAP system. One thing my current project manager told me recently is that the description field that we have to use to describe what work we did is just invisibly cut to 40 characters on the backend. I can freely type a whole essay describing what I did, but the pm reviewing will just see 40 characters. Assuming that any sort of thought goes into most of SAP's software is like trying to reason about an insane person's behavior. It's completely pointless since there is no reason involved.