allowing access to forms in the portal ECC 6.0, NW 7.0

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am trying to decide what the best approach is for publishing some of our custom adobe forms in the portal(mostly outgoing correspondence). Do we just build a custom iview that calls a BSP app or Webdynpro app? Or is there a better approach? Seems like a common requirement....

Thanks in advance,

Heather

[chintan_virani · Accepted solution]

Well that depends on how you form is accessing the backend i.e. if connection is available and data from Adobe is updated in real time then the form scenario will be Online and it would be need to be in Portal through an iView.

If the form data will be uploaded manually into the backend then the business case will to be use it Offline. You can still use a Portal and store all these documents in KM and give users the rights to download the form, fill and submit by email.

Chintan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Chintan,

Very well. Thank you for the clarification. There are two different requirements according to the criteria you specified. Scenario A, is to print out a blank(no SAP data written) form that would be sent out to a user who would be asked to fill in certain fields. Scenario B's requirement would be to print out a form, which requires selection from the SAP backend(via the custom print program), and then populates the form, which is then printed by the user and sent to the recipient. It seems that in scenario A, it makes the most sense to generate this form, and have it available offline, but in scenario B, to have it available via an iView. In scenario B, have you developed a custom iView for displaying a form like this? Did you do it via BSP or Webdynpro (any advantages/disadvantages for one or the other).

Thanks again for your response.

[OttoGold · Accepted solution]

Hello,

scenario A: blank form would be offline scenario, you can just create Adobe form, generate it using test/ run (F8) and save as a simple file to let the user save it through hyperlink.

There are more options: like develop a simple application/ report where the user only provides email where to send the form

The form will be send as an email attachment and displayed by the end user on his PC.

scenario B: can be simply a ERP report, that quickly prints the form. if the portal is not neccesary, this task would take me like hour. Or you can send the form directly to the printer without portal. Or portal is used only to trigger the action (onclick). Or you can generate the form, get the binary data of the form and send it to the portal to let the user save it/ display it. Etc.

If you pick up a scenario or provide more details, we can solve this out right here:)) Regards, Otto

[OttoGold]

Hello, did you choose any scenario? Can you provide with the details about the solution and the reasons to go that way? Otto