Hi Experts, some terms in adobe form? thanks in advance!

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am learning adobe form, and I am familiar with smartform, but when I read the document about adobe form, I can make comparison between adobe form and smartform, so could anyone please tell me the differences and same places of adobe form and smartform? such as what is master page, body pages, content area? and how to create an address in the layout like smartform? thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Dawson

[OttoGold]

Hello, did you get your answer and solve the problem? If so, please close the thread and share your solution and experience with us so the other members of the community benefits from that too. Otto

[Former Member]

Hi Dawson,

You might want to look at SAP Note 1009567 describing describing differences from a what is not supported perspective.

If you don't want to work through material on SDN or attend training course BC480 you might want to look at the IFbA book from SAP Press.

Regards,

Juergen

[OttoGold]

I guess you know the coding on the ABAP side.

If you need an example, just install ALD and open transaction SFP and pick some of the standard forms.

You should check what you can see in the interface and context (in transaction SFP before you edit layout) and what you see next in the layout editor. This is the way how the data are passed. For scripting in forms there is a cool document provided by Adobe: lc_designer_scripting_basics.pdf available for free on the internet.

If you want to follow some nice tutorial, find a SDN contribution named Offline Interactive Forms Using ABAP using Google.

[Former Member]

Hi Dawson,

BC450 is one of SAP training courses.

Training is always the best way to learn.

If you don't like it, FREE useful documents are provided by SAP.

Please refer to it.

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/SAPInteractiveFormsbyAdobe

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/c8/4adf7ba13c4ac1b4600d4df15f8b84/frameset.htm

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe

In addition, sample forms are helpful.

You can find some forms in your SAP system.

Execute transaction SFP, and use F4 help.

If you install LiveCycle Designer, sample forms by Adobe are also installed.

Best regards,

TK

[OttoGold]

1) read BC450, in this doc there is a comparison between Adobe and Smartform

2) if you know the Smartforms, then you can

a) load the data from the SAP DB

b) create an interface

c) pass the loaded data to the interface

...and youre missing only feq important pieces:

I) Adobe forms layout is created visually, very much like in MS Word or other visual editors

II) Programming in Adobe (called scripting) is done using JavaScript or FormCalc

III) Sometimes a trick thing is the binding between the graphical layout fields and their DB data sources.

It is a great technology, you can work much faster than in Smartforms. Have a good luck with Adobe forms.

[Former Member]

Hi Otto,

I didn't find BC450, do you have a link for this document? thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Dawson