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diff between SAP Scripts and Smart Form

[Former Member]

Hi,

SAPscript technology is based on a mainframe product from the 1980s, while Smart Forms have only been around since (roughly) 2001. With that sort of time gap, there are bound to be significant differences between the two tools. Client dependence is a fundamental one. Although SAPscript has had some incremental improvements over time, its forms have always been -- under the hood -- relatively ...

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Santosh

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Santosh Kumar Patha

[Former Member]

Hi,

Smartform/Sapscript is a tool for the maintenance of forms on which application data from the SAP system can be listed output.The output of application data is placed into a dynamically expandable table where the size and layout of the output table is determined by the number of records being retreived.

The latest versions of SAP introduced Smartforms. Smartforms has more advantages than SAPScripts.

Thanks,

Srinivas

[Former Member]

Hi

Both are used to create layouts, but smartforms is an advanced concept than scripts. In smartforms you will have all drag and drop options where as it is not possible in scripts.

Regards

Haritha.

[Former Member]

We have many differences between sap scripts and smartforms

1. script is client dependent one while smartform is client independent.

2. In scripts we have to write print program while in smart forms it is not necessary.

3. In scripts we can print background logo while in smartforms we cant print background logo

4. In scripts we have 99 main windows while in smartforms we have only 1 main window.

5. In scripts we should write paragraph format otherwise we cant execute program while in smartforms no need to create paragraph formats .

6. In scripts we can print the text in only two character formats.

while in smartforms we can do with more.

7. In scripts we dont have line types while in smartforms we have linetypes.