why adobe forms.

[Former Member]

hi friends,

i want to learn adobe forms.

i need clear idea what is adobe forms.

when we should go to adobe form?

and i know that the adobe forms are user interactive forms.

means we can enter the values in the form and save in the table

both off line and on line.

i need more information

[Former Member]

The new SAP forms solutions comprises two Adobe components:

Adobe Live Cycle Designer, an easy-to-use form design tool, you can access directly in the development environments for both ABAP (ABAP Workbench) and Java (SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio).

Adobe document services, a set of Web services that run on the Java engine of SAP Web Application Server

9. What do I need the Adobe document services for?

The document services are the run-time component of Interactive Forms and have two fundamental tasks:

Creating a PDF file (and other output formats in print scenarios) by merging a form template with current system data for output.

Extracting user-entered data (stored in XML format inside the PDF) from interactive forms and return the data to the system

Smart forms

1) Smart Forms is a technology for printing SAP data, release 4.70.

2) The Smart Form needs to be defined with transaction SMARTFORMS. The application program retrieves data from the database and is passed to the function module generated by the Smart Form. The application program, which collects data, has to be written. In many cases, a standard print program is copied, modified and then reused.

3) Faster then PDF.

4) Require no additional installations.

5) Smart forms / scripts are used to show the data in SAP. Most likely you will use these to print / display some kind of receipts / forms. Many companies must be using this for hard copies / ALE / EDI or to transfer data from SAP to others.

All new forms delivered with the ERP will be PDF-based in future. PDF was introduced in 2002. PDF forms can be static or dynamic

and interactive or non-interactive.

2) A print program also needs to be written. The PDF form template, consuming data from its interface, is called by the generated function module. The call to the web service and the PDF is physically built during runtime. The Adobe Live Cycle Designer is used when you have lots of forms to develop. You can enhance the custom objects in the ALD. Can reduce the time needed for developing.

3) Slower compared to Smart forms.

4) PDF requires a J2EE stack with ADS installation and proper configuration.

5) Adobe forms are used to post data into SAP from SAP too. So this has an additional feature compared to smart forms.