URL/hyperlink - Adobe Print forms

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are on ECC 5.0, Adobe Designer 7.0

Can anyone tell me how to put in URL/hyperlinks in Adobe print forms so that once the output is ready, users can click on it to open other PDF files/Internet sites.

Ex 1.

In Summary invoice, we have list of invoices.

The individual invoices are stored on the document server as PDFs.

Once we generate the commercial invoice output PDF, we would like to have the individual invoices to be hyperlinks.

That way, users can click on them to open the individual invoice. If possible, we would like this to be a relative link.

We tricked this to work in SAPscript.

It worked until the later releases for Adobe reader started prepending 'http://' to the relative hyperlink that calls an .asp page

Ex 2.

Depending on company code, show company name as hyperlink and point hyperlink to respective URL.

If company code A, hyperlink should open 'http://www.a.com' elseif B, open 'http://www.b.com' etc.

Hope this can be done.

Thank you.

Best regards,

-Ramesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can someone please tell me if this is possible or not?

Thanks,

-Ramesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Ramesh,

Unfortunately hyperlinks are only possible in interactive forms (there is a library object called "Launch URL"). In print forms you only have the possibility to specify in Reader whether you want an automatic detection of URLs (Preferences -> General -> Automatically detect URLs from text); but this only works if the text starts with "http://", for example...

Regards,

Philipp

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Philipp.

Is there anyway in which we can import the "Launch URL" library object so that

it shows in the Adobe designer through transaction SFP?

If so, then do you think that it will work via print forms also?

It seems strange that we could trick it in SAPScript, but the cutting edge product does not provide one.

Just for test purposes, I did trick it in Adobe forms also based on your suggestion (Thank you),

but I cannot use it in the real business scenario

Hope Markus has an answer to this.

Best regards,

-Ramesh

[markus_meisl · Accepted solution]

Hi Ramesh,

the LaunchURL object should also show in Designer in SFP.

However, the issue you currently face is that this object (in the Adobe part of our joint software solution) is a workaround for proper URL support until Adobe provides a final solution. This workaround is based on a hidden button with some script. A button only works in an interactive form, which print forms by definition are not. So you could render the PDF as an interactive form, which would help you, but then you'd have a custom interactive form, which requires an additional license.

Best,

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Markus.

It was just as I guessed.

For Print to paper/fax, I can understand the reason behind not having a URL field.

If we are to email the generated PDF output, then it is a different story and it is there that I was surprised

that Adobe did not provide anything.

I will tell my client that we cannot have hyperlinks in printforms until Adobe comes

up with something in the future.

Thank you.

Best regards,

-Ramesh

[Former Member]

Regarding the URL in SAPScript. How did you do it?