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diff. b/w reports and smartfors

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:48:58 GMT

Hi experts

can u tell me the techninal diff. betwwen reports and smartforms?

Re: diff. b/w reports and smartfors

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:52:03 GMT

Hi,

in reports formatting is highly difficult

in smart forms it is very easy

<b>reward points if helpful.</b>

regards,

Vinod Samuel.

Re: diff. b/w reports and smartfors

sreeramkumar_madisetty — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:57:31 GMT

Major difference between Reports and Smartforms are:

Text management.

Suppose you want "Saran" like S in bold 10 a in normal 12 ran in bold 18, it's not possible in reports.

You can achieve that thru smartforms and scripts.

One more major difference is : Barcodes handling, which can't be possible thru reports and can be handled thru scripts/smartforms.

Regards,

Sree

Re: diff. b/w reports and smartfors

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:05:35 GMT

hi,

main diff's btwn repts & smt forms..

<b>Reports :

1. u can have many functionalities like sort, add, hide, select layout, detail view, download to excel, and so on

2. while printing logo will not come.

Smatforms :

1. u can have a logo , watermark , it will come while printing

2. no extra functionalities like add, sort, download.</b>

With Rgds,

S.Barani

Re: diff. b/w reports and smartfors

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:42:08 GMT

hi jatin,

reports are mainly used for display the data in list format .Smartforms are used for mass printing of data like invoices ,pay slips, goods reciepts etc.

Reports can be developed in many ways.

1)Classical reporting

2)Interactive reporting

3)ALV reporting

4)reports using LDB

5) ABAP Query

6)LIS Reporting.

Using se38 we can write reports.Using tcode-smartforms,we can design a smartform and we need to execute a print program which will pass data to smartform which we designed in Tcode-smartforms.

After activating the Form System will generate a FM which we need to use in print program.along with FM SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE.