Scripts vs Smartforms vs Interactive forms

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

Answers to the following questions as well as any relevant links will be appreciated:

<b>What is the necessity for customers to get converted to smartforms from sapscripts??

What is the process to get along with this conversion??

Are all standard sapscripts have related standard smartforms available in the system?? How to find them??

What is the effect of interactive forms over sapscripts/smartforms in future??</b>

The above questions are based for version ECC 6.0

Advance Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Aadarsh,

see the below points for smartforms vs scripts.

1.SAP Scripts are available prior to version 4.6 also.

1.Smart Forms is available from the version 4.6 Onwards only.

2.It is not as flexible as SAP Smartforms

2. It is flexible as it uses Graphical user interface for the creation of the

Layout.

3.In SAP Scripts It is not possible to write the code in the Layout (Ex: Select statements.

3.In Smart Forms We can write code for data retrieval in the Layout also.

4..In SAP Scripts It is possible to upload only those pictures, which are in tiff format.

4.In Smart Forms It is possible to upload pictures of different format.

5. .In SAP Scripts Layout Designing is little difficult in Sap Script when compared to Smart Forms.

5.In Smart Forms Layout Designing is easy because of the tool, graphical form painter.

6. .In SAP Scripts Creating boxes and Lines are done using the command line /: and the box command.

6. In Smart Forms Since there is no command line, in order to draw even a small line, we have to create a separate window.

7. .In SAP Scripts SAP Scripts we call a number of function modules in the driver program to communicate with the layout like open form, write form and close form etc.

7. In Smart Forms When we execute the form, it itself creates a function module for the particular form, which has to be called in the driver program to communicate with the Layout.

plz reward points if helpful.

Thanks,

Suma.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Suma,

Thanks for your efforts. But my questions remain unanswered..