I did some reasearch and seen a lot of posts about SAPHistory*.mdb file in the SapWorkDir directory. The user’s history was was being generated so the problem was being caused by something else.

Then I came across a post talking about Low Speed Connection [Reduced Network Traffic] setting which can be found by going through your login pad, clicking on the system and displaying the properties window – followed by going to the Network tab.  From what I’ve read it seems that having the setting set to Low Speed Connection could cause the problem of missing input field history.  Even though this seemed promissing after getting the user to try a different machine with the High Speed enabled he was still showing the problem.

The final peace of information that I’ve aquired from the web was a little neat SAP feature: if you get to an input field and hold down your Ctrl button you can right click on your  mouse and get a pop-up window that would allow you to Disable/Enable History functionality.  Typically the field is set to Defaut Settings, so the only thing left to do was to figure out if the user’s default settings were set to Disable History for his SAP system.

to be continued…

PS: another interesting fact that I picked up somewhere: if you scroll up/down using your keyboard in the history field you can delete entries by pushing the delete key.  I know, it’s neat.