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Automatically Save PDF Form

Former Member — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:30:26 GMT

I have a pdf form that read the employee details from the PA tables.

Usualy the pdf form displays in preview but now i have a request to automaticaly save the file in a folder.

The user will have a screen with a button "Generate Employee Form" when the user will press this button the system will generate the from in the backround and save a pdf file in the target folder.

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks

Re: Automatically Save PDF Form

sreeramkumar_madisetty — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:59:59 GMT

Anyway you are getting the form in preview screen right?

You can print that form and create a spool.

convert that spool to pdf and save that in the required folder.

This is just one way may be you man get best way than this too.

Thanks,

Sreeram

Re: Automatically Save PDF Form

Florian — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:25:15 GMT

Hi elad,

why not, process the form.

Use Function-stone convert_otf_to_pdf (in case of you are using a smartforms/sapscript) and create a method to save it in a serverfolder.

For that you can have a look at open dataset if you want to do it in a basic way

Regards

Florian

Re: Automatically Save PDF Form

Former Member — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:13:17 GMT

hi,

once you convert otf to pdf, do the code below

Here hard code your filepath (target folder).

w_full_path = target folder.

and then

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'

EXPORTING

* BIN_FILESIZE = W_bin_filesize

filename = w_FULL_PATH

FILETYPE = 'BIN'

tables

data_tab = T_pdf_tab

.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

* * MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

* * WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

Regards -

Makarand

Re: Automatically Save PDF Form

Former Member — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 04:00:16 GMT

Hey elad,

You can follow the procedure which Makarand has explained. Use the FM CONVERT_OTF to convert to PDF and use 'GUI_DOWNLOAD' to download the PDF to the required directory.

Regards

Anoop