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SmartForms - I


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Smart Forms are a new generation graphical user interface (GUI) tool to create & maintain

Forms for mass printing in minimum time.

Supports a printer, a fax, e-mail, or the Internet (XML) as output medium A development over the earlier print technique SAP Scripts

Transaction > SMARTFORMS

Menu path -> SAP menu->Tools->Form Printout->Smart Forms

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Note : The SAP Smart Forms replace the SAP Script forms. SAP Script forms will also

be supported in the future; you can use them without making any changes for years

to come. You can use SAP Script texts in the Smart Forms. Migration of SAP Script

forms into Smart Forms is supported.

What is Smart Form ?


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Architecture of Smart Form


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Smart Forms - Features

Simple modifications without any programming knowledge

Data retrieval and form logic separated

ABAP program implements data retrieval Smart Form implements form logic

Smart Form generates a function module upon activation

Data retrieval program passes data through function module parameters

Graphical Design tools

Graphical Form Painter

- Represents form logic in a tree structure

Graphical Table Painter

- Static and dynamic tables

- Sorting, headings, subtotals

XML output used for Web

Client independent

Graphics can be included as background/on any part of the form


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Smart Forms Transaction smartforms


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Form Builder Components

Navigation Tree Maintenance

ScreenForm Painter

Global Settings

Pages and Windows


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Navigation Tree Maintenance

ScreenForm Painter

Form Builder Components (Contd.)


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Form Builder Components (Contd.)

The tree structure of the root nodePages and windows:

Global Settings

Pages and Windows


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Graphical Form Painter - Overview


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Graphical Form Painter - Design Area

Design support

Two-level grid

Window position

Cursor position with gridlines

Autozooming

Background display

Changing windows

Drag & drop

Snap to grid

Autoscrolling

Context menu


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Style Builder is used to maintain Smart Styles where we define character formats and

paragraph formats for use across Smart Forms. These are not explicitly defined in the

Smart Form; the Smart Style in which required Formats are defined is referred to in the

Smart form.

Transaction-> SMARTSTYLES or From the initial screen of transaction SMARTFORMS

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Style Builder


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Transaction SmartStyles

Creating smartstyles:

Choose transaction SMARTSTYLES.

The initial Smart Styles screen appears. Enter the style name.

To create a Smart Style choose Create.

A Smart Style contains:

Header data containing the default values of a Smart Style

Paragraph formats including indents and spacing, font attributes, tabs, and outline

and numbering

Character formats including effects (superscript, subscript), barcode and font

attributes

Colors and underlines for a paragraph or character format Preview


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Style Builder (Contd.) : Header data

Header Data

Standard Settings

You must define these

values in the header data

(Standard Settings):

Standard paragraph

Default tab stops

Characters per inch/ Lines

per inch

Font family and font size


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Style Builder (Contd.) : Header data

Administration Settings


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Creating Paragraph and Character formats

Paragraph Format

1. In change mode of the Smart Style, select the node Paragraph formatand choose

Create.

2. In the Paragraph formatfield enter a two-character paragraph key.

3. Select the desired attributes on the individual tabs.

4. ChooseActivate.

Character Format

1. In change mode of the Smart Style select the Character formats node and choose

Create.

2. In the Character formatfield enter a two-character character key.

3. Select the desired attributes on the individual tab pages.

4. ChooseActivate.


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Style Builder (Contd.) : Paragraph format

Paragraph Formats

Indents and Spacing

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Fonts

Paragraph Format (Font):

This tab page contains the font family, font size, font style (Bold/ Italic) and the attributes

underlined and color.

S l B ild (C d ) P h f


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Tabs

Paragraph Format (Tabs):

In this tab page any number of tabs can be define for each paragraph format. Five different

alignments are possible (Left, Right, Centered, Decimal, Right (with leading sign)).

St l B ild (C td ) P h f t


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Paragraph Format (Numbering and Outline):

You can define multiple paragraph formats with reference to one another to create multilevel

outlines in the subsequent output. To do so , you have to define one paragraph format foreach outline level.

St l B ild (C td ) Ch t f t


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Style Builder (Contd.) : Character format

Character Formats

Standard Settings

Font

St l B ild (C td ) U l d / D l d St l


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Upload Style

Download Style

Style Builder (Contd.) : Upload / Download Style

Gl b l S tti F Att ib t


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General

Attributes

Global Settings: Form Attributes

General Attributes Created by/date/time Changed by/date/time Development class/language

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Output Options

Global Settings: Form Attributes (Contd.)

Output options

Page format, Chars per inch, lines per inch, Style

XSF output (XML output)

Global Settings Form Interface


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Global Settings: Form Interface

Standard Import parameter

Data passed from ABAP program -> function module -> Smart form using these

Import, Export, Tables, Exceptions parameters

Global Settings Form Interface (Contd )


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Standard Export parameter

Global Settings: Form Interface (Contd.)

Global Settings: Form Interface (Contd )


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Tables passed

from Print

program


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Exception


Global Settings: Global definitions


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Global data

Global Settings: Global definitions

Global Settings: Global definition (Contd )


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Types

Global Settings: Global definition (Contd.)

Global Data/Routine declaration for the form logic

Global data, Types, Field symbols, Initialization, Form routines



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Field Symbols




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Initialization




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Sub routines




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Currency/Quantity

fields



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