Saving adobe form data to XML

[Former Member]

Am trying to see what happens when user fills in adobe form and clicks submit. What will be sent back to server? Filled PDF or XML? If its XML, does it get stored on the user's machine in some temporary files?? If not, atleast where does it get stored on the server?

Am basically trying to develop a functionality where user clicks submit and all the form data gets stored in an XML file on the local machine. Any inputs?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Narayana,

What is your scenario ? If technology is WebDynpro you send data via an RFC or BAPI call.

Check for data extraction into an XML file.

Francois

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Francois,

Thanks for the reply. I am using WebDynpro with Java. So can I use RFC/BAPI call in Java? Sorry am new to this.

Regarding that thread, as you can see, I already posted a reply couple of days back about that code snippet. Waiting for response.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Narayana,

You can use Web Dynpro Java with embedded Interactive PDF forms; and within your WDJ application, you can call various 'models': web services, EJBs and BAPIs/RFCs etc.

So to pass data to an SAP system, you don't automatically need the XML data as a BAPI is sufficient. Check out <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/webdynpro?rid=/library/uuid/49f2ea90-0201-0010-ce8e-de18b94aee2d#backend">these SDN tutorials</a> to do this.

Cheers,

Francois

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for explaining. But the reason, I wanted an XML file is because I need to do some processing with that later. So when user clicks Save or Submit on the pdf form, I want all the form data to be stored in a local machine as XML file for further processing. Any ideas?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi narayan.....

i donno exactly dis will solve ur issue or not.....

however generally we use JAXP programming for converting data into XML format....

if u can use this teqnique in webDynpro for java then...i think u shud be able to get ur problem solved........

regards,

Sudheer

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Sudheer,

Thanks for the reply. But I dont want to convert data into XML file. I am trying to see what happens when user clicks 'Submit to SAP' button. I strongly believe that the whole pdf form is not submitted to the backend. I believe only the form data is sent back in the form of xml file. So my question is where exactly is this xml file? Is it stored on the SAP backend? Webdynpro? Local machine??