on 05-08-2008 11:58 AM
Can anyone tell me where to download preconfigured smartforms and print programs for version 4.6c
I recall a few years ago downloading and install package for 4.6c that contained amny preconfigured forms, e.g. PO's, RFQ, delivery notes, confirmations etc... but looking around OSS I can't find them ...
anyone?
Thanks for that, however I am well aware of how to use the F4 help function, that was not what I was asking.
I have logged an OSS message and since discovered that the preconfigured smartforms are no longer supported as a download, very dissappointing.
I have however found that SAP provide a download for preconfigured forms in a more simplistic manner whereby you have to implement the print programs and forms yourself, based on supplied text and XML files for a 4.7 system.
Now all I need to know is how to upload an XML file into a SMARTFORM when this feature is not available as standrd in a 4.6c system.
Why oh why did they remove support for this ????
Edited by: Neil Ward on May 8, 2008 5:08 PM
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Hi Neil,
I guess this is not really an answer, but more a potted history to explain how you find yourself where you are.
In the beginning there was SAPscript, and it was pretty rubbish but it was all we had. It wasn't integrated into the transport system so there was included the option to download the SAPscript to a file and upload it into another system.
Then there was smartforms (in 4.6) and it was much less rubbish, and it was intergated into the transport system, so the upload/download wasn't needed. And not all of the modules had created forms in time, so there weren't so many shipped with 4.6c
Except, people had got quite used to uploading and download forms, so in 4.7 SAP put this into the smartforms transaction.
And to fill the gaps, they provided the transports containing preconfigured forms.
My understanding is the upload/download in 4.7 isn't downward compatible, so you can't lift it from a later system. I guess your best bet is to see if SAP can provide the transports with the preconfigured forms for 4.6, as the xml version can't be loaded into 4.6
Regards,
Nick
thanks for the reply Nick,
I'm familair with SMARTFORMS older (and uglier) borther SAPscript. My current (and most recent) employer is still using them, and I thought I'd bring them out of the dark ages and introduce SMARTFORMS, which I've done in the past by downloading the installers and preconfigured forms and away you go ... much to my dismay this is no longer supplied or supported in 4.6c, so we're simply out of luck.
They (SAP) have provided some form of workaround however, but it's not pretty, I have some ABAP experience so I was able to generate the standard print program based on supplied code, but the forms have been supplied in XML, and there is no function to upload a XML into a 4.6c system.
We need to upgrade .... Harsh, but true.
Hello,
Got to the transaction smartforms and in the form name type as /* and press on F4, you can find all the existing smart forms provide by the SAP.
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