Interactive forms : OrderConfirmation by mail

[Former Member]

Hi,

Today:

I use SMARTFORMS to populate orderconfirmation.

My orderconfirmation has a body in the mail and one attachement (pdf).

SMARTFORMS:

Z_ORDERCONF --> Pdf

Z_ORDERCONF_TXT -- body in mail

So... the SMARTFORM: Z_ORDERCONF_TXT has a output of plain txt...

Future:

I was thinking about having 2 new Adobe Forms.

Z_ORDERCONF_ADOBE_PDF

Z_ORDERCONF_ADOBE_TXT.

Now is it possible to render html or xml from the adobe form Z_ORDERCONF__ADOBE_TXT ? .

I want to use this in the body of the mail... or are there better ways to do it.

(I do not want SMARTFORMS anymore... better to have logic outside layout....)

I have not seen any books about this subject ? Adobe Interactive forms.

Regards

Martin

[amolgupta]

hi Martin,

The concept of Interactive forms is quite simple.

like you have a dynpro layout in a view....

where you have various UI elements connected/bound to respective Context attributes.

Here in Interactive forms again you have UI elements that are connected to the web dynpro context.

the contents in the UI elements of the interactive form can be modified in dynpro by actually working on the Context Attributes.

The advantage of using the interactive forms is that they can be downloaded as a pdf file.

now this PDF can be filled like you fill a form and saved.

And when later you upload this form with entries saved in it. you can again get all contents of it in the Context attributes and work on them/use them.

like push the entries of the form in some data store(databse, MDM etc).

as far as XML part is concerned, XML schema is generated for the layout of the Interactive Form automatically. you hardly ever need to see it.

so far i have not seen any instance of rendering XML/HTML in interactive forms.

with regards,

-amol gupta

[Former Member]

Hi,

I believe you have already visited Interative Forms Homepage -><a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms">click here</a>.

Please detail out your requirement. you need to send a mail with PDF attachment ya have two seperate PDF's. There is an option of sending an xml of the PDF using a button UI element in the form.

- anto.