How to develop a offline interactive form for material master creation

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Requirement 1:

we have developed an offline adobe form which the end user fills the form and send it back

and have to  upload the details filled in the pdf to database.

using webdynpro application.

we are facing problem in extracting data from the pdf and upload it in db table.

Requirement2:

We have to develop a web service from the BAPI  - BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA

And then we have to integrate it with the Adobe form.

Then we have to upload the details filled in the pdf to DB

[rakesh_m2]

Hi Ramya,

Once you read the completed offline adobe form,  Follow below steps

1. Convert PDF document to XML form.

2. Using XML document, extract nodes of it using steps in below thread.   (Fields on form should be binded with some variable, else, they cannot be read)

http://scn.sap.com/thread/119977

3.  Once all data and nodes are in table, populate into appropriate structures and then using required function modules, create a material.

Another approach is,  you could try implementing MDG for material master creation.  this is latest approach, where more people are using to maintain master data.  There are few demos in below link, you could go through it.   This approach make take some time to setup initially, but it has a lot of options to take care of most of situations.  In adobe form approach, you may have to implement them all manually. 

http://scn.sap.com/community/mdm/master-data-governance

Thanks,

Rakesh