BASIC OF SAP ADOBE FORMS

PDF-based print forms are a part of the Interactive Forms based on Adobe software package
solution and are used for mass printing in SAP systems

Objectives

 Create an Adobe Form

 Integrate forms into ABAP programs

How Forms are generated at Runtime

SAP Adobe forms generation process is very simple when the report is run to generate Adobe
form following steps are performed before generating the output form. Application program
fetches the data from the database and calls the ABAP function module to generate the Form
based on the PDF form template and its sent to the output.

SAP Forms at RunTime

Components of an Adobe Form

Form Interface

The Form interface defines which data the program can possibly pass on to a form and
Declaration of global data and initialization of variables in the form Interface
Context

Context Define which parts of the interface to be used in a particular form and Add elements
like text modules or images into the form.

Layout

Layout consists of static elements and dynamic elements.

layout is defined in Adobe LiveCycle Designer and it is the complete template of the form
like how it will be displayed on the output.

Advantages of SAP Adobe Forms over SAPScript/SmartForms

SAP Adobe Forms

 Abode forms are Interactive means End user can input data using a PDF and submit it
to the SAP server
 Abode forms support Webdynpro Integration
 Provide paper-like User Interface
 Easy for users to fill in the data with minimal user training allows the user to save the
data in the desktop

SAPScript/SmartForms

 SAP Script/Smart Forms are Non-Interactive

 SAP Script/Smart Forms don't support Interactive behavior
 SAP Script/Smart Forms from don't support Webdynpro integrations

Data sources Supported by SAP Adobe Forms

 SAP Adobe from support Data selected from the SAP database tables like master data
and transactional Data

 SAP Adobe from support Data provided by the SAP system or by the PDF-based
print forms solution like User input and System variables, for example, sy-datum,sy-
uname etc.
  SAP Adobe from support Data that has been coded into the program like Totals and
summations and concatenated values

In the form interface, specify the data that is exchanged with the application program (such as
tables)

Under Global Definitions, define the needed fields

Interface

Under Code Initialization, create the program code to modify global definition data before the
form is processed. Form routines that are predefined in the ABAP Editor may be used.
The system fields contain data with a predefined meaning (such as the date).
You can assign currency and quantity fields.

Code Initialization
Context Define which parts of the interface to be used in a particular form and Add elements
like text modules or images into the form. Context is consists of Interface, Properties of
interface fields and the properties, Details and conditions of context elements

Context

In Context, we can bind the table so the report loop the table to display results.
 Report table context

we can also do the conditions in the context like

Conditions
Sap Adobe Forms also support Including Texts

In a form context, four types of long texts can be included

 Addresses from the Business Address Services

 Text modules (Smart Forms texts)
 Include texts (SAPscript texts)
 Dynamic texts

Layout

The layout is Consists of static elements and dynamic elements

and The layout is defined in Adobe LiveCycle Designer it is the complete template of the
form like how it will be displayed on the output.

Layout Style

Data Binding

SAP Adobe form allows the data binding we can Association between form template and data
source and Created automatically through drag & drop from Data View and Can be created
manually
 Data binding

Inserting Static Images

Sap Adobe forms allow adding static images do to so first select the page where you want to
add image then drag the image into page like example below

Adding Images

Static Texts with Floating Fields

 Static text and floating value

Setup for Tables

The Body Page main subform Content property must be set to Flowed and Table body rows
are bound to the data in the table.

Setup for table

Integration of Forms into ABAP Programs

 Data retrieval and processing is normally used to data the data from a database or
from the internal table which we want to show to report.
 After getting the data find out name of generated function module and CALL
FUNCTION ‘FP_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'
 In order to Start form processing, we will CALL FUNCTION ‘FP_JOB_OPEN’
 To End form processing CALL FUNCTION ‘FP_JOB_CLOSE'

Correct Approach to Designing Forms

Create the master page first and Look for data that belongs to the background of the page and
Set your content area.
it is recommended to Divide the form information/data into

 Header (master page)

 Form content (body page)
 Leaders / detail lines / trailers
 Footer (master page)

it's good to use subforms because Used to organize different element like text fields,
attributes, and tables and Can be laid down only in the content area of a master page and
Contents of subform can be protected against a page break.

To Include Subforms Placing objects in a subform makes sense

 If you want to output the element repeatedly (type Flow Content)

 If you want to visually group objects
 If you want to keep objects together (protect them against page break)
 If you want to hide several elements at once (scripting required)