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Fillable PDF from Smartforms

Former Member — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:26:48 GMT

Has anyone converted a Smartform to a PDF document with certain fields that are fillable by the user before he prints out the form? We are on version 4.6C of SAP.

I do not mean that after he fills them they are communicated back to SAP. I am just speaking of letting the user key data into certain fields before printing.

Thanks

Janice Ishee

Re: Fillable PDF from Smartforms

vani_krishnamoorthy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:22:43 GMT

Hi Janice,

I don't think that smartforms are interactive and will let you fill in fields before you print . Sap has come out with the new Adobe forms ( part of the Netweaver develper studio ) You can create interactive forms using this.

As for 4.6C one suggestion is that get the user to inpud the required field valuse using a screen or dialog box or something and then pass it to the smartform.

Regards,

Vani

Re: Fillable PDF from Smartforms

markus_meisl — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:18:31 GMT

Hi Janice

Vani's correct. Smart Forms doesn't let you add information to the form once it's output. The complete form is passed to the spool.

To use truly interactive forms, play around with Web AS 6.40 and the integrated Adobe technology. You can find a lot of background information here in SDN: https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=AdobeForms.htm.

Regards,

Markus

Markus Meisl

SAP NetWeaver Product Management