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ADOBE© interactive form Introduction 1 System Requirement 2 3 4 5 Technical Overview Demo Appendix

Disadvantage of paper-based business process • Paper based forms are expensive because of labor cost resulting from redundant manual intervention or fixing human error and cost of storage. • Paper-based processes are inefficient, create bottlenecks, and make it difficult to take advantage of automation built into enterprise applications. • Paper-based forms make it difficult for remote, mobile, and casual users to access up-to-date forms and complete them in a timely fashion.

The integration of Adobe PDF capabilities with the SAP Net. Weaver open integration and application platform has placed SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe at the heart of projects around the world to automate form-based processes, eliminate paper throughout an organization, and keep compliant with industry standard. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe enable end-to-end workflows with rich and intelligent common user experiences for online and offline use to • Increase user productivity • Extend SAP business processes to every computer with Adobe Reader® software • Increase trust in documents and data anywhere in the process

Features of ADOBE interactive forms • Create form templates for the dynamic layout that include logos or pictures • Generate documents by merging form templates and current system data • Edit forms online or offline • Forms can be filled in advance automatically with specific data from SAP applications and then sent to the correct recipients using secure methods • Automatic consistency checks forms • Activate enhanced functions such as comments • Digital signatures and form certification • Send completed forms to the SAP application with automatic updates of the business data

Use Cases of Interactive Forms Use case Enviroment Available with General interactive use of forms for data capture Web Dynpro for Java SAP Net. Weaver 04 Web Dynpro for ABAP SAP Net. Weaver 04 s Interactive use in offline processes Guided Procedures as part of a workflow framework SAP Net. Weaver 04 s Interactive use in online processes Internet Service as part of a workflow framework Request my. SAP ERP 2004 High-volume printing, for example invoice or payroll runs ABAP Workbench SAP Net. Weaver 04 Enterprise reporting, that is printing of dynamic BI tables (function for end user) SAP Net. Weaver 04 s

ADOBE© interactive form Introduction 1 System Requirement 2 3 4 5 Technical Overview Demo Appendix

Complete architecture of ADOBE interactive form integration with SAP

ADOBE document service (ADS) • Adobe Document Services provided by SAP runs as a module on J 2 EE Application Server to provide Adobe PDF Based Form Outputs and also Adobe Interactive Forms for Input/Output. • Web services are used to generate the PDF forms at runtime; in interactive scenarios, they extract the XML data from the form and send it to the system. • For complete documentation about the configuration of Adobe document services, see the following link: Adobe Document Service Configuration Guide

Adobe Live. Cycle Designer™ • Live. Cycle Designer is installed locally on the developer’s PC and tightly integrated into the following development environments: - ABAP Workbench - SAP Net. Weaver Developer Studio (transaction SFP) Features • • • Convert XForms Import static document formats Work with a point-and-click XML template design tool Add digital signatures to templates Support XML data and schema bindings • Create rich and engaging form guides for data capture

Additional Installations on the Client PC • Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (Version 7. 0. 9 or higher) • SAP Web Dynpro Active Component Framework (ACF) -Not required when form build in ZCI layout • Interactive form needs Reader Rights Credential for accessing advance capabilities. - Reader Rights are configured as part of the installation and configuration process of Adobe Document Services

ZCI layout • System Prerequisites - SAP Net. Weaver NW 7. 0 SPS 10 or higher - SAPGUI Release 6. 40 Support Package Level 20 or higher (see SAP Note 940637). - Adobe Live. Cycle Designer 7. 1, support package level 1 • Prerequisites for ZCI Forms - Adobe Reader Version 7. x with x >= 08 - ZCI and HTTPS require Adobe Reader 8. 1 - Adobe Designer, version 7. 1 SP 1 only - GUI patch level 20 must be installed.

ADOBE© interactive form Introduction 1 System Requirement 2 3 4 5 Technical Overview Demo Appendix

How can we design a form with ADOBE Livecycle Designer?

Process Flow To create a form, you use the Form Builder tool that is integrated with ABAP Workbench. 1. You create a form object in transaction SFP or in repository browser 2. In the interface, you define where the data comes from that you want to display in the form. To do this, you call the interface function in Form Builder. 3. You activate the interface. 4. In the context in Form Builder, you drag and drop the required parameters from the interface you have defined. You can also insert texts, graphics, and addresses. 5. In the layout function in Form Builder, you create the layout. You use this graphical tool to design the printed appearance of the form, and drag and drop data from the form context you have defined. 6. You activate the form.

Interface in Form Builder You can choose from the following three interface types: ● ABAP Dictionary-based interface ● Smart Forms-compatible interface ● XML-based interface Use: ● Data selected from the database tables of your application. You use the form interface to specify this data. ● Data provided by the SAP system or by the PDF-based print forms solution, such as dates ● Data that you have calculated or implemented in a form yourself, such as totals for tables

Context in Form Builder In the form context you specify which data is copied from the interface to the form. You include this data as a node in a hierarchy structure. In this hierarchy, you also decide the form logic by specifying conditions for processing the nodes. ● Whether the content of the node (text, addresses, graphics) are included in the output ● Whether the data of a node is Active or Inactive ● Whether a specified node or an alternative node is processed

Layout in the Form Builder You use the layout type to define the runtime environment where the form is used. Layout types Standard layout for PDF-based print forms, or offline interactive form x. ACF layout The Active Components Framework technology is used to integrate the form at runtime in Web Dynpro applications ZCI layout Zero Client Installation (ZCI) technology is used to integrate the form at runtime in Web Dynpro applications.

Overview of form painter Script editor Palette Window Layout Editor Demo Palette Window

Scripting in Layout of Form Builder Live. Cycle Designer supports scripting with both Form. Calc and Java. Script. - Form. Calc is a calculation language that includes a wide range of built-in functions to simplify the most common form functionality. - Java. Script is a more powerful and diverse scripting language intended to give you more flexibility and leverage your existing scripting knowledge.

Calling Forms in an Application Program (1) Data retrieval and processing SELECT. . . FROM. . . * (2) Find out name of generated function module CALL FUNCTION 'FP_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'. . . * (3) Start form processing CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_OPEN'. . . LOOP AT. . . * (4) Call function module dynamically CALL FUNCTION <generated function module>. . . ENDLOOP. * (5) End form processing CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_CLOSE'. . .

PDF-Based Print Forms A PDF-based print form is a form designed for mass printing in SAP systems. It is used for order confirmation, invoices, account statement, checks, salary statement, delivery notes etc. Adobe Designer includes two different types of pages that you can use to structure your form layout: - Master pages - Body pages You can position various elements on these pages. These elements are available in a library in Adobe Designer. Standard objects • Static objects such as texts, graphics, rectangles, circles, and lines • Dynamic objects, such as option and list fields, date and time fields, text fields, numeric fields, and password fields • Special date objects • Your own user-defined objects Bar codes

Interactive Forms There are several ways of creating an interactive form. You use one of the following development environments, depending on your application scenario: • Web. Dynpro for ABAP in SAP Net. Weaver AS ABAP • Web. Dynpro for Java in SAP Net. Weaver AS ABAP • Forms in SAP Business Workflow for various my. SAP ERP business packages (in particular, Manager Self-Services) • ABAP workbench, Transaction SFP for offline interactive PDF form or online interactive form through Web Service.

Integrating interactive forms in Web. Dynpro ABAP • For Web Dynpro user interfaces, forms can be created and used in the context of SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. For efficient and straightforward development of the user interface, you can integrate the Adobe Live Cycle Designer tool with editor and the Adobe UI elements into the development workbench. • Forms that are stored in systems as MIME objects in the MIME repository with MIME type application/pdf can be integrated and displayed in a Web Dynpro application. • As of Net. Weaver 7. 0 (NW 7. 0) SPS 10 forms can be integrated using Zero Client Installation (ZCI). Procedure for integrating Adobe interactive with Web. Dynpro ABAP. Please click on the document.

Integrating Adobe Forms for the Web Dynpro JAVA Fully integrated into the SAP Net. Weaver® 2004 platform. SAP Interactive Forms enables developers to: • Design templates and create interactive forms in the SAP Net. Weaver Developer Studio tool or the ABAP™ programming language workbench using Adobe Live. Cycle Designer software • Integrate SAP Interactive Forms with any SAP application • Distribute interactive forms from within SAP applications to users for a multitude of business processes, including ERP, CRM, and SCM Procedure for integrating Adobe interactive with Web. Dynpro UI. Please click on the document.

Interactive Form in Guided Procedure Interactive forms in GP enable you to send and receive data as a part of the workflow managed by the GP framework. In addition, you can also create standalone forms, which you can publish to URL, or download locally.

Integrating Web Services with ADOVE Live. Cycle Designer to make Interactive Form • In Designer, you not only have the ability to create data connections to schemas (directly or based on sample XML data) and databases, you can also connect to web services. Web services are online applications that return information in response to specific requests. These requests and responses are sent and received via the SOAP protocol in various formats, as specified by the web service in an XML-based language called WSDL. • After binding the request/response parameters to form fields, a button to call the web service has to be added to the form. The data connection in the "Data View" already provides a button that is configured to call a web service. So you can simple drag&drop this button onto the form and you are done.

First Demo – ADOBE Print Form Key business requirements A form is required for the generating Inspection Report as per the sample attached in section 4. 0. This form need to be generated for all goods receipts for Food and Non Food Items. This Form has to be issued at the time of Goods receipt for Non food items purchase orders. The document is a direct output from the Good Receipt documents posted under the Purchase order or the Returns Purchase Order. User can digitally sign the document. Technical details for generating the output. Please click on the document.

Second Demo – ADOBE Interactive form using Web. Dynpro ABAP Key business requirements A demo form is created in a simple web dynpro application for displaying interactive scenario. Technical details for generating the output. Please click on the document.

Third Demo – ADOBE Interactive form using Web. Dynpro JAVA Key business requirements A demo form is created in a simple web dynpro application for displaying interactive scenario. Technical details for generating the output. Please click on the document.

Additional Resources Important SAP Notes for configuration: • 894009 Adobe document services: Configuration Guide (NW 7. 0) • 736902 Adobe Credentials • 750784 SAP Interactive Forms: Licenses • 752153 Adobe: PDF Manipulation Module High Encryption • 766191 Active Component Framework Installation • 766410 Interactive forms: XDC Scenarios for the Printer Control • 685571 Printing PDF-Based Forms • 834573 SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe: Acrobat/Adobe Reader Version • 854621 Third Party Software Delivered with Adobe Document Services and Adobe Live. Cycle Designer • 944221 Problem Analysis / Troubleshooting in Forms Processing • 886572 ADS: Central Patch Note for SAP Net. Weaver 7. 0