SAPScript_forms - print an example

[Former Member]

Hi,

excuse me for not simply reading the manual - I have never worked with SAPScript forms and in the last week I have devised a way to draw meta-information on all the tables involved from the layout of any SAPScript_form - but I've never read the manual in detail, there was no time.

We only have all the standard SAPScript_forms on our system, no custom ones.

I have found out how I can do a "test printout" of a form which will give me the basic layout - the windows - but not much text in them.

Is there any way I can, without going to the length of designing a new form, possible to print an example form with some real data? I know SAPScript_forms is a really old product and I'm really not sure. If it is not possible "just so" - I'd need it this afternoon, actually - then I'll just read the manual. I just need to know if it is possible to have an "immediate example" or whether I need to design a new form to have that. I will try myself and search in the manual, but any help to speed up that process would be very welcome.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Sapperdapper

[Former Member]

Hello Friedrich,

You mean to say you would like to see real time data in standard sap scripts, currently you are doing print preview via se71.

Let me know if i understood correctly.

For sapscripts, there will be print program/ output type attached to it that will generate output.you can see this config in tcode NACE or you can get print program name from table TNAPR.

Regards,

Deepti

[Former Member]

Hi Depti,

yes, you understood me quite correctly. I have a little more time now - till Friday - so if necessary I will build my own form if I can learn how to do that in three days.

I know the print program, I know that table TNAPR and I have studied the PrintProgram. It is seven or eight levels "deep", so it's immensely complex. I have just never run it, it seems it cannot be run independent, but only out of a SAPScript_form. In my understanding, the PrintProgram takes meta-info on the tables required from the layout, accesses the DB, fetches the data and puts it in the respective places on a form.

Best regards,

Sapperdapper

[Former Member]

Yes you are correct. Also sometimes output type is attached with a form to generate output.  For ex : if you hav created some billing related form and  you can see output for tht billing document with the help of output type through billing transaction.   You can refer material provided by SAP or you can go through below link to learn more about scripts.  http://saptechnical.com/Tutorials : go through sap script tutorials.  Regards,  Deepti   

[Former Member]

Hi Deepti,

thanks for helping! I think it is not possible to start the PrintProgram that is attached to a form independently, only through the form. For instance, take SAPScript_form MEDRUCK - acc. to table TNAPR, the PrintProgram associated with that is SAPFM06P. That is not a standalone report, however, and it cannot be started just so.

The GUI for SAPScript_forms is not very comfortable. Okay, it is from '93, that is a few years gone - but is it really impossible to run one of the standard forms (available when none has been expressly generated) and get a sample of what it looks like when it's filled with actual data from the DB, not only those few and partly cryptic text_elements you get on the printing test?

@ Ankitesh

On my system, there is no menu-point "Migration", only "Download form", that one asks for an xml structure - which is probably generated when you output any of the SAPScript_forms? The issue is, I don't have one.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Sapperdapper