Adobe interactive form for material creation

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Please Let me know how to create an Interactive adobe form for material master creation. And also please give me an idea or the concept behind interactive adobe form. Bcoz i'm quite familiar with print forms but not Interactive forms.

Hoping for a reply.....

Thanks in advance.

[venkata_ramisetti]

Hi Sai,

Please check the below link that contains all the links about Interactive Forms.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms

The below is what sap documentation says about Interactive forms.

As of SAP NetWeaver ’04 (in SAP Web Application Server), you can use a new solution to create interactive forms and print forms for the optimization of your form-based business processes. This solution uses Portable Document Format (PDF) and software from Adobe Systems Inc. that has been integrated into the SAP environment.

You can create interactive forms in PDF format that allow users to fill out the form on the screen and save their entries in XML format in the form. When the SAP system receives the PDF form, it extracts the data saved in the form, and can process it further.

You can also merge a form template with current system data to generate a PDF document that can then be printed or sent by e-mail.

SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe offer you the following business advantages:

● Interactive functions automate the creation of data for SAP systems

● Full integration into the SAP development environments for Java and ABAP

● User-friendly tools reduce the time and costs associated with creating form layouts.

● The usage of the PDF format means that forms retain their appearance regardless of the environment they are used in.

Coming to your requirement about material master creation interactive form...

Please check the below high level steps required.

1. You first need to set up the infrastructure (Java Stack is required)

2. Indentify the fields you want to fill for material master creation

3. BUild a INteractive form using Adobe LiveCycle Designer

4. Call necessary BAPIs for material master creation, if none are available, then you may have to create RFC function module to do that.

Thanks

Ramakrishna

[Former Member]

Hi Ramkrishna,

Thanks for the quick response.

But can u pls eloborate the design of pdf form using Live cycle designer...

Is the procedure same as how we create a print form???? or anything differant..?

1. creating interface

2. creating context and then Layout.

And I'm strucked up at one point that..."The values entered by the user should be saved"

We can maintain default values in normal Print form.

But can we make a particular field as input fld so that it enables the user to enter a value...???

Please dont mind.. give me clarification on the above points.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi Sai,

Why dont you check this link...

<i>https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms?rid=/webcontent/uuid/24b9e126-0b01-0010-e098-f46384fad9f3</i> [original link is broken]

check the exercise - PART III : Adobe Interactive Forms with Webdynpro for ABAP in the above link.

I hope this will certainly be helpful if you are in <b>NW04S</b>.

Regards,

<i><b>Raja Sekhar</b></i>

[venkata_ramisetti]

Hi,

Can u pls eloborate the design of pdf form using Live cycle designer...

<b>You just need to use UI elemnts and data hierarchy to get the data from SAP. It is very difficult to eloborate this in the forum. There very good documentations avaialabl in SDN. Please check.</b>

Is the procedure same as how we create a print form???? or anything differant..?

1. creating interface

2. creating context and then Layout.

The procedure is same as above.

And I'm strucked up at one point that..."The values entered by the user should be saved"

<b>

YOu can first show sap screen to enter user inputs and once the user saves the data, you can display pdf print form. </b>

We can maintain default values in normal Print form.

But can we make a particular field as input fld so that it enables the user to enter a value...???

Please dont mind.. give me clarification on the above points.

<b>I think you can maintain default values in the Print forms too. You have to maintain in the field properties in the Form Context.

</b>

<b>If you have SAP Environment, it recommand you to first show SAP Screen where user will enter details and provide a button to save the details and to show PDF print form.

If you still want to use interactive form, you have to do the following steps.

1. Create input fields in the PDF print form and button to save the user inputs.

2. develop a function module to save user inputs and call this function module when user clicks on the button.

I am not sure about the above solution. Plese check once before you want to go with the second solution.

</b>

Thanks

Ramakrishna