Installing and Configuring SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe for the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment
Scott Jones
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Apply the CE_development_full Configuration Template
In my experience, installing ADS reconfigures your CE runtime environment to support only ADS... Trying to reach the portal in that environment gets a "Service stopped" or "Service unavailable" error, which is kind of disconcerting. The fix is simple, fortunately. Open up the config tool and reset the configuration template to the CE_composition_environment_development_full template. This switches everything (including ADS) back on. Here, take a look:
Before:
And after:
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You'll use this user to set up the logical port through which ADS operates.
Open the NetWeaver Administrator using https://<server>:<port>/nwa, and navigate to Configuration Management > Infrastructure Management > Web Services Configuration.
Search for the Proxy Definition DestinationSI and manually create a new logical port for that destination.
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Install Adobe Credentials
As the last step of the CE-server-side configuration, you must add credentials from Adobe to your implementation to enable its use. You can download a trial set of credentials from the CE download page on SDN (see step 12), or follow the instructions in SAP Note 736902 to get full credentials. The credentials are delivered in a .pfx file with accompanying password, and the files are time-constrained. When your credentials expire, your ADS services will too!
Unpack the credentials files and place them in ADS's credentials directory, shown below:
Add a new credentials object, alias ReaderRights, into which you load the credentials file and password (the password can be found in the .txt file in the credentials directory):
Save, and you've completed the CE-server-side installation and configuration of Adobe Document Services. So, what's next? Installing and configuring the client-side pieces for ADS, of course.
Install Adobe LiveCycle Designer
As SAP Note 962763 explains, you may already have Adobe LiveCycle Designer on your desktop, installed by the Designer Installer or as part of SAP GUI or the SAP NetWeaver Developers Studio. You can tell by looking for "SAP Interactive Forms" in Add or Remove Programs launched from the Control Panel. If you do have an earlier version, it must be uninstalled befor you install version 7.1.
The media for Adobe LiveCycle Designer can be downloaded from the SAP Service Marketplace if you have an s-number there. Search for it in the software download center under Installations and Upgrades.
With this, your CE development environment, both server-side and client-side, are extended with Adobe Document Services. Congratuations! But then, how can you know?
Testing the Installation
You test the installation by creating and using forms as Callable Objects in your guided procedures. A simple test is to invoke Interactive Forms tools within the design time, as follows:
And bang in your forms:
FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=image"
Once you've mapped the fields of your forms to the input parameters of the services you're using, you'll be using SAP Interactive forms by Adobe as full interface elements within your composite applications. Cool!
Scott Jones is a Content Strategist with SDN specializing in SAP NetWeaver Platform topics. He formerly has formerly worked as a Senior Consultant with the SAP NetWeaver RIG, and a Platinum Instructor with SAP Education.
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