Interactive Adobe Form

Former Member · ‎07-26-2008

Hi Friends, I have few doubts on Adobe Forms.

1.) Are Interactive Adobe forms different from Adobe Print Forms ?

2.) What is Adobe Life Cycle Designer ? What is its use ?

3.) What is the difference between Adobe Designer and Using transaction

SFP ?

4.) After designing the interface and form in SFP how to display these forms ?

Do we have to build any Driver Program ?

I am new to Adobe Forms. I want to learn Adobe Forms using ABAP.

Can anyone let me know any inks tht can help me out. ?

Former Member · ‎07-29-2008

Hi-

>> 2.) What is Adobe Life Cycle Designer ? What is its use ?

Adobe LiveCycle Designer uses the script languages JavaScript and FormCalc. FormCalc is a simple Adobe script language for typical form calculations, including mathematical and logical functions, and date and character string functions. For more information about FormCalc, and a FormCalc language reference, see the online help of Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

To achieve the best possible performance when processing forms, use as little scripting as possible in the form itself. If possible, perform all calculations and data analysis in the application program, before the form is called

The following websites provide details on scripting:

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

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

SAP® Interactive Forms by Adobe® Development Introduction

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

cheers!

gyanaraj

vaibhav_tiwari · ‎07-28-2008

Hi,

Following are the answers to your queries:

1. Interactive forms are different form adobe print forms in the sense that they need user interaction at run time i.e. filling of any field on the form as in the selection screen or any other ABAP screen. Moreover they can trigger any event also as the buttons do on the common ABAP screens.

2. Adobe life cycle designer is used for designing Adobe forms. Whenever you design a form using transaction SFP the designer screen which appears is the adobe life cycle designer installed on your local system. If you are working on windows platform then you can run it independently from the path :

C:Program FilesAdobeDesigner 7.1FormDesigner.exe

3. The difference is explained in your query 2.

4. You need to develop an ABAP program for it or the other way is as Arafat has already explained. To run it through ABAP program you can refer to following example which explains step by step procedure to build an ABAP program which uses adobe form.

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

You can go to the following link for getting helpful details of how to design adobe forms using ABAP:

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe#section39]

For more details go to following links:

[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/37/47a2be350c4ac8afe36b691203971f/frameset.htm]

[http://sapient.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/offline-interactive-forms-using-abap/]

[http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid21_gci1242949,00.html#]

[http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW04S/helpdata/EN/2c/241a427ff6db2ce10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm]

Arafat has also send you so many links you can find out those also.

Regards,

Vaibhav Tiwari.