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Smart forms
SAP Smartforms can be used for creating and maintaining forms for mass printing in SAP Systems. The output medium for Smartforms support printer, fax, e-mail, or the Internet (by using the generated XML output).
Smart Forms
Form Printing in the Internet Age
Smart Forms was introduced in SAP Basis Release 4.6C as the tool for creating and maintaining forms within SAP solutions, such as mySAP CRM, mySAP SCM, mySAP SRM, and mySAP Healthcare, and is already used by numerous customers. Smart Forms provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface which enables you to carry out the crucial tasks of creating and adjusting forms without any programming skills.
Key Benefits of Smart Forms
Smart Forms allows you to reduce considerably the implementation costs of SAP solutions since forms can be adjusted in minimum time.
The process of designing the form and creating the form logic is completely supported by the Form Builder with integrated graphical user interfaces for page design, table design and text. Furthermore, the Form Builder provides a tree structure to navigate through your form description and to determine the main processing order. Of course, drag-and-drop as well as copy-and-paste functions are also included.
Using your form description maintained in the Form Builder, Smart Forms generates a function module that encapsulates layout, content and form logic. So you do not need a group of function modules to print a form, but only one.
In addition to the tool itself, SAP delivers a set of forms for central business processes, including forms in SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution (SD), Financial Accounting (FI), and Human Resources (HR) application components.
Building Web Forms Using Smart Forms
As of SAP Web Application Server 6.10, Smart Forms can generate HTML based on XML output. This allows the integration of interactive Web Forms in Web applications.
The layout of a Web Form corresponds to the printed version. Printed forms that are already used in a business process are instantly recognized.
Existing Smart Forms used for printing can be reused for Web applications by turning a switch. You can add HTML input elements to your Smart Form without showing them in your printed version.
For an evaluation of user entries on a Web Form, it needs to be integrated in some kind of Web application infrastructure. SAP recommends that you use Business Server Pages to do so.
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