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smart forms

Former Member — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:40:56 GMT

this is venkat

i hered SAP not recomended the smartforms what is the reasion,and also want to know disadvantager of smart forms over scripts

thanks&regards

venkat.

Re: smart forms

Former Member — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:42:57 GMT

Hi Venkat,

Whatever source that gave you this information, does not know the power of smartforms.

smartforms are the improved version of sapscripts.

Smartforms can do everything sap scripts can do and much more.

There are no disadvantages for smartforms overs sap scripts.

Regards,

Ravi

Re: smart forms

Former Member — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:53:47 GMT

Hi Venkat,

Smartforms are very powerful tool for designing forms, however SAP Scripts are in market for last 10 yrs, therefore atmost any forms you can find in standard SAP forms that company need. In case of Smartforms as they are new, Standard SAP Smartforms are not available. This make some sense to use standard SAP Scripts even today.

I believe some senior SAP Tech guys can give some examples where even today we are using SAP Scripts over Smartforms.

Some of the Examples I can give you are (But My Knowledge is limited)

1) Dunning Letters

2) Bank Checks

3) Credit Memo.

4) physical Inventory.

These forms are easy to develop in Scripts as they are pre-deveopled.

Venkat. For desiging Smartforms offers many more advanced feature than Script does.

I hope this is helpful.

Thanking you

Regards

Venkat Kumbham

Re: smart forms

former_member221770 — Mon, 08 May 2006 00:24:51 GMT

Hi Venkat,

The others here are right. SAPscript is outdated. SmartForms have been introduced from 4.6C onwards of SAP. SmartForms are alot easier to develop and maintain than SAPscripts. SAP have stopped developing new SAPscripts and have been gradually replacing the existing SAPscripts with SmartForms (although the SAPscript equivilent is still available).

What you may have heard is that SAP have a new way of developing forms using something called Adobe Forms. This is available from ECC5 onwards. This will probably one day replace SmartForms. I don't have much experience with Adobe Forms but I have seen it in action and is a great way to display forms via a Portal. It allows you to customise your form based on user's interaction. For example, on your Form, you may have an option that says "If you answered Yes, got to Question 10, otherwise go to Question 15". Well upon choosing "Yes" Adobe Forms will display question 10 and hide the not relevant questions dynamically. Looks very cool.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Pat.

Re: smart forms

Former Member — Mon, 08 May 2006 01:15:19 GMT

Hey Venkat,

I am working in SAP for almost one year now..but I dont think that SAP Scripts are more powerful than the Smartforms ..

Smartforms are realy smart ..Following are the important points to support this :

1. Smartforms have a gr8 GUI. Its pretty easy to prepare a form/report using this.

2. Smartforms can even be developed without using any driver programs.

3. You can write program logic in the smartform itself.

4. Developing tables and displaying the data is a lot more easier .

5. Now several clients even tell us to develop the reports using the smartforms ..not with the SAP scripts..Infact the forms being developed using script are now being migrated to smartforms.

Conclusively, I can say from my experience that working with the smartforms is lot easier and less hectic.

Hope these points give you enough clue to clarify your doubt.

Regards,

Kunal.

Re: smart forms

Former Member — Mon, 08 May 2006 03:50:47 GMT

Hi Venkat,

As others said, sapscripts have not advantages over smartforms. Smartforms are much powerful than scripts.

Here are a few more advantages of smartforms to clarify the point.

Advantages of Smartforms

 Drag and Drop capability in layout and design

 Multiple tables are in Smart Forms

 Background images are in Smart Forms

 Interactive Web Forms available in Web Application Server 6.10

 Condition manipulations of the tables possible in Smart Forms

 Smartforms is easier, more elegant and powerful

 Creating and maintaining forms requiring half the time (compared to Sapscripts forms).

 The adoption of forms is supported to a large extent by graphic tools for layout and logic, so that no programming knowledge is necessary.

 A functional consultant without any programming knowledge can configure forms with data from an SAP System for the relevant business processes.

 Web publishing using the generated XML output.

 Colored output of texts

 Displaying table structures (dynamic framing of texts)

 User-friendly and integrated Form Painter for the graphical design of forms

 Graphical Table Painter for drawing tables

 Form translation is supported by standard translation tools.

 Interactive Web forms with input fields, pushbuttons, radio buttons, etc.

Regards,

Susmitha

Re: smart forms

Former Member — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:37:16 GMT

Hi Venkat,

As all said Smart Forms are really developer friendly. <b>But</b> the problem with Smart Forms occurs when we use program lines indiscriminately. If we use lot of program lines in between nodes then the performance of the Smart Form will be effected.

Thanks and Regards,

Bharat Kumar Reddy.V