How to process an incoming mail with a returned pdf form

[Former Member]

Hi community of specialists...

At SABIC Europe we are working on our first Adobe Interactive Forms development.

I've created a form for an offline scenario which is sent to a customer by email.

The customer fills in the form and returns by email again.

Question is how to process the incoming Outlook-mail.

Is there anybody in the community who can help me with a step by step plan to read the incoming mail and subsequently process the pdf form with the data filled in?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Wouter Heuvelmans

SABIC Europe

The Netherlands

[Former Member]

Hi,

to read the inbox of the mail account you can use the <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/">Java Mail API</a> (this API is included in the SAP WAS, you can reference it as "Used DC").

To process the incoming pdf document you should use the <a href="https://media.sdn.sap.com/javadocs/NW04s/SPS7/wd/com/sap/tc/webdynpro/pdfobject/api/package-summary.html">PDF Object API</a> from SAP.

Regards

Sebastian

[Former Member]

I forgot to mention that I need to process the incoming mail and PDF in ABAP.

We do not use WebDynpros yet.

Thanks in advance.

Wouter

[Former Member]

Hi,

the PDF Object API is also available for ABAP. You don´t have to develop a webdynpro application to use this API. The PDF Object API is just a service facade for the Adobe Document Services.

Regards

Sebastian

[Former Member]

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for your reply.

However I'm not familiar with the use of API yet.

So my next question is how to use this PDF Object API.

Is there a specific ABAP Class for this purpose?

And if there is (I expect it is), which are the methods to call and in which sequence?

Do you have an example for me?

Hope you or anybody else can help me to get on track.

Thanks anyway.

Wouter

[Former Member]

Hi Wouter,

the abap class is CL_FP_PDF_OBJECT. Since I´m using the java implementation of the API, I unfortunately cannot give you any further information.

Regards

Sebastian