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Adobe Interactive Form - v1.0
Adobe Interactive Form - v1.0
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ADOBE© interactive form
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
ADOBE© interactive form
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
Disadvantage of paper-based business process
Enterprise reporting, that is (function for end user) SAP NetWeaver 04s
printing of dynamic BI tables
ADOBE© interactive form
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
Complete architecture of ADOBE interactive form
integration with SAP
ADOBE document service (ADS)
Features
• Convert XForms
• Import static document formats
• Work with a point-and-click XML template design tool
• Add digital signatures to templates
• Support XML data and schema bindings
• Create rich and engaging form guides for data capture
Additional Installations on the Client PC
• Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (Version 7.0.9 or higher)
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
How can we design a form with ADOBE
Livecycle Designer?
Process Flow
To create a form, you use the Form Builder tool that is integrated
with ABAP Workbench.
Use:
● Data selected from the database
tables of your application. You use the
form interface to specify this data.
● Data provided by the SAP system
or by the PDF-based print forms
solution, such as dates
● Data that you have calculated or
implemented in a form yourself, such as
totals for tables
Context in Form Builder
In the form context you specify which
data is copied from the interface to the
form. You include this data as a node in
a hierarchy structure. In this hierarchy,
you also decide the form logic by
specifying conditions for processing the
nodes.
● Whether the content of the node
(text, addresses, graphics) are included
in the output
● Whether the data of a node is
Active or Inactive
● Whether a specified node or an
alternative node is processed
Layout in the Form Builder
You use the layout type to define the
runtime environment where the form is
used.
Layout types
Standard layout for PDF-based print
forms, or offline
interactive form
xACF layout The Active Components
Framework technology is
used to integrate the
form at runtime in Web
Dynpro applications
ZCI layout Zero Client Installation
(ZCI) technology is used
to integrate the form at
runtime in Web Dynpro
applications.
Overview of form painter
Script editor
Layout Palette
Palette
Editor Window
Window
Demo
Scripting in Layout of Form Builder
Integration Step
Integrating Adobe Forms for the Web Dynpro JAVA
Fully integrated into the SAP NetWeaver® 2004 platform.
SAP Interactive Forms enables developers to:
• Design templates and create interactive forms in the SAP NetWeaver Developer
Studio tool or the ABAP™ programming language workbench using Adobe LiveCycle
Designer software
• Integrate SAP Interactive Forms with any SAP application
• Distribute interactive forms from within SAP applications to users for a multitude of
business processes, including ERP, CRM, and SCM
Process Steps
Interactive Form in Guided Procedure
Interactive forms in GP enable you to send and receive data as a part of the
workflow managed by the GP framework. In addition, you can also create
standalone forms, which you can publish to URL, or download locally.
Integrating Web Services with ADOVE LiveCycle
Designer to make Interactive Form
• In Designer, you not only have the ability to create data connections to schemas
(directly or based on sample XML data) and databases, you can also connect to web
services. Web services are online applications that return information in response to
specific requests. These requests and responses are sent and received via the SOAP
protocol in various formats, as specified by the web service in an XML-based language
called WSDL.
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
First Demo – ADOBE Print Form
Key business requirements
A form is required for the generating Inspection Report as per the sample attached in
section 4.0. This form need to be generated for all goods receipts for Food and Non
Food Items. This Form has to be issued at the time of Goods receipt for Non food
items purchase orders. The document is a direct output from the Good Receipt
documents posted under the Purchase order or the Returns Purchase Order. User
can digitally sign the document.
Technical Details
Second Demo – ADOBE Interactive form using
WebDynpro ABAP
Key business requirements
A demo form is created in a simple web
dynpro application for displaying
interactive scenario.
Technical Details
Third Demo – ADOBE Interactive form using WebDynpro
JAVA
Technical Details
ADOBE© interactive form
1 Introduction
2 System Requirement
3 Technical Overview
4 Demo
5 Appendix
Additional Resources
Important SAP Notes for configuration:
• 894009 Adobe document services: Configuration Guide (NW 7.0)
• 736902 Adobe Credentials
• 750784 SAP Interactive Forms: Licenses
• 752153 Adobe: PDF Manipulation Module High Encryption
• 766191 Active Component Framework Installation
• 766410 Interactive forms: XDC Scenarios for the Printer Control
• 685571 Printing PDF-Based Forms
• 834573 SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe: Acrobat/Adobe Reader Version
• 854621 Third Party Software Delivered with Adobe Document Services and Adobe
LiveCycle Designer
• 944221 Problem Analysis / Troubleshooting in Forms Processing
• 886572 ADS: Central Patch Note for SAP NetWeaver 7.0