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Hotspot opens smartform

former_member829759 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:55:54 GMT

Hi,

I have an hotspot in my alv grid vbrk-vbeln column and when it is clicked it has to open an already existing smartform with the data corresponding to that vbeln value, how can i do that? Thanks in advance

Aarush.

Re: Hotspot opens smartform

Former Member — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:56:14 GMT

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Re: Hotspot opens smartform

former_member188498 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:05:50 GMT

Hi Aarush,

you can try these steps:

Step 1. save smartform to pdf (xstring) from ABAP

Step 2. display xstring as pdf in html viewer control

Follow these two blogs:

https://blogs.sap.com/2013/03/11/how-to-easy-save-smartform-in-pdf-file/

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/12/30/display-xstring-as-pdf-in-report/