what is adobe interactive form?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

1) what exactly is interactive form in ADOBE in ABAP?

if i set the param fp_docparams-FILLABLE = 'N', does the form becomes interactive ?

2) what is offline & online adobe form then? Does online adobe form needs a web dynpro when using ABAP?

3) Does there exist an online NON- interactive form?

Please clarify ..

thanks

Dany

[vaibhav_tiwari · Accepted solution]

Hi Dan,

Interactive form as the name specifies is a form which needs user interaction to fill it or to get data from it. Suppose you want to create material in your SAP systems. Then you will fill up this form integrated with your ABAP program and the material will be created in your SAP system. All this procedure will need some coding for flow logic, BAPIs to save data in SAP system. The Basic layout of the form will be more or less same as in the transaction MM01 in ABAP SAP system.

Now suppose the case you want the information form vendor to create the material, then you will send the form to the vendor through email or form any site/portal he will be able to download it and he will fill it and send you to maintain it in the SAP system. You will read the pdf by uploading it in your SAP ABAP program and create the material.

Its not necessary to have web dynpro for online scenario. Online scenario can completely run on portal i.e. filling and updation all things will be done on portal itself.

There could be online non-interactive form also, these are called print forms. Suppose you only want to show the details and after it want to print it then it will be counted as non-interactive form.

Go to the following link to know more about adobe interactive form.

[http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/enterprise/partners/pdfs/bwp_interactive_forms_adobe.pdf]

The following link contains a offline application in ABAP. You can try it.

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c2567f2b-0b01-0010-b7b5-977cbf80665d]

Hope I have answered all you queries.

Regards,

Vaibhav Tiwari.

[Former Member]

Hi Dan ,

>1) what exactly is interactive form in ADOBE in ABAP?

The answer is it is advanced version of SMARTFORMS in ABAP.

For further questions, check the follow

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe

Improving the Performance of Adobe® LiveCycleu2122 Designer Forms(scripting)

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lc_designer_perf_guidelines.pdf

Interactive Forms Based on Adobe Software: Overview

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e635e290-0201-0010-a9be-9e8...

Adobe Interactive Forms

http://www.saplounge.be/Files/media/pdf/Huberland-Interactive-Forms-2007.10.10.pdf

Taking interactive forms to next level

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8c103c36-0301-0010-cda8-f6b381be...

Introduction to Adobe PDF Library SDK(PDFL SDK)(Simply scroll the document)

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/webseminars/PDFL_WebSeminar.pdf

Creating Interactive forms in webdynpro for java

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5f27e290-0201-0010-ff82-c21...

PDF-Based Print Forms/SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/c8/4adf7ba13c4ac1b4600d4df15f8b84/frameset.htm

Date Objects in Adobe Designer

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/dd/60694fddb74ad88cdb7d2a094f3dd2/frameset.htm

Checking and Testing a PDF-Based Print Form

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/c2/1fe9aa4d7b413e8515f90b73729e97/frameset.htm

Architecture

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f2/21021b911f4c0cae11459a4ce0bc62/frameset.htm

http://www.nl4b.com/Adobe/Invitation_SAPBrussels_Q407.pdf

cheers!

gyanaraj

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[Former Member]

Hi Dany,

please see the answers:

1) what exactly is interactive form in ADOBE in ABAP?

> This is a PDF form you can type in some data and send it back (same as HTML forms but you fill in the data into the PDF). In the ABAP Workbench (or transaction SFP) you can design forms. The form contains of a template ("UI" of the form) and an interface (XMLS or DDIC). Best practise when using ABAP (without WebDynpro) is using a deep structure as interface. When you like to import the filled out form, it is easy to do a simple transformation to merge the form data back into the deep structure.

if i set the param fp_docparams-FILLABLE = 'N', does the form becomes interactive ?

> Yes. Then it can be used as simple "Print form" (e.g. for reporting and not for data collection).

2) what is offline & online adobe form then? Does online adobe form needs a web dynpro when using ABAP?

> Online: If you use WebDynpro and include the form there. The user has to log on into your portal and see there the form.

Offline: Create the form by code (non WebDynpro) and send it via eMail

3) Does there exist an online NON- interactive form?

> Yes if you only like to report some data

Hope this helps.

Take care,

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi Dan,

Adobe Interactive forms in ABAP/Java are pretty much similar with just a minor difference in implementation.

Online scenario may be used when we have a form available on portal and you can go and create a request using that form online itself.

In an offline scenario, you can go to portal save the form locally on your machine and then fill it up as per your convinience and upload it back using the portal offline scenario.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Arafat