Debugging SAP Smartforms : Smart tip to debug SAP smartforms

[Surendra_Karma]

Introduction:
In SAP, Forms vary from SAPscript to Smartforms, Adobe forms, Form templates and Form fragments. Smartforms are quite useful method since 1998 and companies are keeping it frequently till date. But in some situations, any smartform printing starts raising an exception, not giving expected print, giving dump suddenly and we'll keep debugging to find exact NODE for the dump. Here, I would like to share a smart tip to get to the affected NODE within a couple of minutes.

Smart Tip:
I have been debugging ABAP codes from long back whether its standard or custom code. And finally, I had a spot which can show you exactly which NODE in SMARTFORM is having the issue. And I would like to share this knowledge which can save your time and complete the deliveries on time.

Program: SAPLSTXBC or Function Group: STXBC

Include: LSTXBCFDC

Subroutine/Perform: CALLBACK

Here, you just have to pay attention after which NODE your smartform is not giving print or raising an exception when calling from driver program. And that is the NODE which has an issue.

Best Real-time use case:
In migration projects, a few of the complex smartforms have still not been migrated to Adobe Forms while migrating from ECC to S/4 HANA. In such cases, smartforms are either not giving prints or some field mapping has been changed in new system. Or some standard texts do not exist, or some graphics do not exist, not giving expected print, raising an exception or giving dumps. Sometimes, in other scenarios we also have to debug and find the NODE which is causing the issue.

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