Automatic eMail Processing for Adobe Forms without Userinterface

[Former Member]

Hello Colleagues,

we often have Interactive Forms in applications to download and upload. But now i have an request for a service that do the generating, send and postprocessing in background.

We would build an application that have no userinterface. I would make the email with the pdf attachment automatically in background and send it to several email adresses. After that i would recieve the eMail and call an Abap rfc with the results of the interactive Form.

What is best practice to made such an scenario? Should i use the CAF-Service pattern for this?

I can also write an normal J2EE Service. But then i miss the lovely RFC-Import wizards in my Developerstudio that i have in WebDynpro.

Best regards,

Patrick

http://www.mindsquare.de

[ashutosh_rastogi · Accepted solution]

Hi Patrick,

This can be implemented using the following steps:

1. Create a process using guided procedure (Which takes input parameter say A,B,C & email... ). First step of this process will send out a PDF form to the specified mail address. It will then wait till the form is filled and submitted.

2. Once the user fills in adobe form and submits it back. It can be sent to GP runtime using two protocols smtp and http.

3. GP runtime retrieves the data from the form after it comes back and can use that data furthur to call and service in background.

And ya, this GP process can be started from any code using GP Api.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ashutosh,

this sounds good. Better then programming an own service for this (less coding and more customizing, better use of standard SAP components). I think i do it your way.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Patrick

http://www.mindsquare.de