Use Crystal Reports for automatic print

[HST]

Hi Community,

I've spent now 3 days of research to find a possibility to use crystal reports instead of smartforms for the generation of printed documents within SAP.

Is there somewhere a documentation (either in english or in german) how to use the crystal report (server) for printing documents after certain events or with the help of PPF?

For me it looks, that crystal works well with the .NET Framework but the integration with SAP is just on the BI and analytics side.

Thanks for you help
Stephan

[Daniil]

Hi Stephan, you can execute any ABAP code from PPF using own action, and maybe you can trigger Cristal reports printout from ABAP with RFC or TCP/IP or maybe with some web based services.

BR,

Daniil

[HST]

That would be exactly my idea. But i haven't some any documentation about that.

[Daniil]

Hi Stephan,

I can only suggest this How-To guide there is one for PPF https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SCM/How-To+Guides+for+SAP+EWM

It is mostly about standard actions, but should be helpful for beginning. Maybe it will help you to go through the steps below.

In a two words:

• You go to the transaction sppfcadm
• You select your application and go to the action profiles
• find your profile which you want to enhance with new action or create new profile (depends on the object, for deliveries I'd prefer create new profile)
• you create new action definition
• and you define new method call (see pic., sorry for German) in processing, you press NEW button
• this will help you to implement a Badi (your ABAP for Crystal reports) and you can select this badi with filter parameter in the PPF action processing method
• when all is done you go again to sppfcadm and add go to conditions button, you add your new action to the list of your profile and add some planning or execution conditions (if required), this is well described in the How-To.
  

  

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Daniil

[HST]

Hi Daniil,

thanks for you comment and the guidance for the PPF action.
But i meant a guidance how to call a crystal report and automatically initiate a print.

regards

Stephan

[former_member11696]

There is no BI .NET SDK that can access EWM.

[HST]

I do not need a .NET SDK.

I've worked with the .NET SDK very often in past and that's the reason why i would like to use crystal report for SAP EWM as well.
But I'm not able to find a Integration besides the BO Integration with Crystal Report Server but there I'm not able to find a possibility to generate event based prints