SCRIPTS TO SMARTFORMS

[Former Member]

CAN ANYONE TELL ME AS HOW A SCRIPT IS MIGRATED TO SMARTFORM HOLDING ALL THE ATTRIBUTES N THE LAYOUT OF THE SCRIPTS.OTHERWISE ISNT MIGRATION AS GOOD AS CREATING A SMARTFORM FRTOM THE SCRATCH???????

THANKING U IN ANTICIPATION.

REGARDS,

SIRISHA MATTA.

[amit_khare]

Hi,

Goto Tcode, Smartforms->utilities->migrat sapscript.

Its ok to do so.

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

In my experience, a migration is not as good as building a SMART Form from scratch. I would rather build one.

Regards,

Ravi

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[Former Member]

I DIDNT GET U RAVI.COULD U TELL ME MORE CLEARLY.

[Former Member]

My answer was to your second question.

When you migrate a script to a smart form, you still need to do lot of work before the output looks pretty. so, I would rather build a smart form from scratch.

regards,

Ravi

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer to the below link, you will get the answer

http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/smartforms_detail.htm

Regards

Sudheer

[Former Member]

Hi Sirisha

In SMARTFORMS transaction initial screen Utilities->MigrateSAPscript; you can give the script form name and you can migrate it into smartform.

But it gives you only layout... you need to take care of all the interface and attributes. As far as layout is concerned it is as good as developing from scratch.

Regards

Surya.

[Former Member]

Hi,

When you migrate a Script to Smartform, every code will be commented in the Smartform and windows also won't coms as there in the Script,

1) if you migrate then see the syntax check , you wil get lot of erros, you need to do lot of work to remove all the erros, ans also, you need to uncoment the links which are comented during the migration, we need be very care here, becuase we need to know which line will print the exact info,

2) so, we need to decide whether the migration is good or the scrach one better,

but if you ank this quesion, everybody will say develop a smartform from Scrach

Regards

Sudheer

[Former Member]

Hi sirisha,

Check this,

When migrating a SAPscript form into a Smart Form or Smart Style, the system executes the following steps:

1. Copies the language attributes and the output options

2. Migrates the layout information including pages and windows, as well as their attributes and positions on the page

3. Copies the texts in the form

4. Displays the fields (SAPscript notation: program symbols) in the texts

5. Converts the SAPscript commands (such as NEW-PAGE or IF...ENDIF) to comment lines and displays them in the texts

For further information check this link it gives step by step procedure

http://www.ficoexpertonline.com/downloads/Iyer_SmartForms.pdf

[Former Member]

sirisha,

check this link also