Can adobe interactive form working online / offline with abap stack only ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am just a begginer in the adobe interactive form world, please advise on the architecture whether i can implement adobe interactive form online and offline form only using abap stack ?

Thank you and Best Regards

Fernand

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Chintan,

thank you for your info, but i am still wondering why some of my abap consultant can create sample ABAP Webdypro with Adobe Interactive form and tested in the system that only have ABAP Stack ?

They can execute test button from webdypro application and the adobe interactive form will be displayed in the browser. is it the lastest support package doesn' required ADS ?

Best Regards

Fernand

[chintan_virani · Accepted solution]

Your BASIS folks may have configured the ADS, without ADS you cannot run Adobe Forms.

Execute FP_PDF_TEST_00 report, if it gives results that means ADS has been configured in your system.

Chintan

[Former Member]

Thank You Chintan, You are right, there is some connection to other external ADS server.

So the ADS is must in order to implement adobe interactive form, eventhough we might only have 1 ADS for DEV,QAS and PRD.

Please correct me if i am wrong

Best Regards

Fernand Lesmana

[chintan_virani]

Generally we always have 3 tier SAP landscape so ideally you would have 3 J2EE engines (D,Q, and P) in your landscape. But you can have 1 ADS running on the separate Web AS JAVA for your D,Q, and P Web AS ABAP stack only systems.

Chintan

[Former Member]

hi chintan,

what do you meant with render ? is it to extract and interprate the adobe interactive form data that has been fill up either online / offline ?

so if i only have abap stact, i can only develope the form but i can't execute the result ?

please enlighteen me on those matter.

Thank you and best Regards

Fernand

[chintan_virani]

Quoting from SAP Help:-

SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe is included in SAP Web Application Server and can be used by any applications that are based on SAP NetWeaver u201904 or later.
The following Adobe software is included in the form solution:
●      Adobe LiveCycle Designer
A graphical tool for designing form layouts; it is integrated into SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio and ABAP Workbench.
●      Adobe Document Services
Web services used to generate the PDF forms at runtime; in interactive scenarios, they extract the XML data from the form and send it to the system.
Adobe Document Services run on SAP J2EE Engine. This means that you must install the Java Stack of SAP Web Application Server, regardless of the development language of your application (ABAP or Java).

Chintan

[chintan_virani]

Well you can develop your forms using Web Dynpro (ABAP or JAVA) but to render them you need Adobe Document Services (ADS) which needs J2EE engine and so you will need Java Stack.

Chintan