By Aravind D.

Objectives:
Need of SAP Smartform
What is an SAP Smartform How a smartform works

Smartform and Driver program

Final Display/Print

Need of a Smartform
Every company regularly needs to print large numbers

of documents with a consistent design, such as invoices or delivery notes. To do this, they must use their business application software. Documents can be output to a printer, a fax device or as e-mails. Starting with R/3 Release 4.6C, SAP provides a new tool for form processing - SAP Smart Forms. This tool includes utilities for designing forms and for defining the interface to the application programs that use forms for data output.

Smartform Basic working

Form generation
Designing SAP Smart Forms
ADDRESS1 LOGO INFO ADDRESS2

MAIN

FUNCTION /1BCDWB/SF00000001 DATA: %INPUT TYPE SSFCOMPIN, %RESULT_OP TYPE SSFCRESOP,

FOOTER

...

SAP Form Builder:

What? Where? What size? How often? Where from?

Generated function module

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Screen of Smartforms
Initial Screen: Maintaining Forms
Smart Forms Edit Goto Utilities System Help

SAP Smart Forms: Initial Screen

Copy Z... Test

Form Style Text module

BC470_INVOICE

Display

Change

Create

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Areas of the SAP Form Builder

Form Edit Goto Utilities Environment System Help

SAP Form Builder: Change Form ZBC470_INVOICE

FormZBC470_INVOICE Global settings Pages and windows FIRST First page LOGO Company logo MAIN Main window INTRO Salut. ADDRESS Address INFO Clerk SENDER Sender NEXT Next page

Window Description

MAIN Letter text

SENDER

INFO Gen. attributes Output options Cond. ADDRESS

MAIN Main window

Navigation tree
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Maintenance screen

Form Painter

The Navigation Tree

Form ZBC470_INVOICE Global settings Form attributes Form interface Global definitions Pages and windows FIRST First page ADDRESS Address LOGO Company logo MAIN Main window INTRO Salutation Successor node of LOGO 3 types of direct subnodes of a page

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Main Window and Secondary Windows

Fly & Smile 4 Truckee Way NY, NY 12456-4574 Turnaround Ltd. 1, Main Street Miami, FL 34535 Dear Sir or Madam, Yours faithfully, we would like to thank you for your order ... and confirm the following bookings: Flight Date Departure Price --------------------------------------------------AA 0017 06/20/00 13:15 799.00 USD AA 2017 07/28/00 21:55 829.00 USD LH 0400 07/21/00 6:07 398.80 EUR Page 1 Secondary windows Invoice Page 2 Clerk: Favretti Tel.: (212) 99-10 Fax: (212) LH 99-12 0400 08/28/00 6:07 398.80 EUR Date: 10/16/2000 LH 0400 09/04/00 6:07 398.80 EUR LH 0003 10/10/00 15:06 990.00 EUR

Main window (body text)

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The Form Painter

Form Painter
SENDER LOGO

INFO

Detachable toolbar

ADDRESS

Ruler

MAIN

Grid

Create Cut Copy Paste Delete Into background

Sizing handles
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Activating and Testing Forms

Form Edit Goto Utilities System Help

SAP Form Builder: Change Form ZBC470_INVOICE

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F8 Check F8 Activate F8 F8

Print Preview Page 0001 of 0003

Fly & Smile 4 Truckee Way New York, NY 12456-4574

Fly & Smile, 4 Truckee Way, New York, NY 12456-4574

Test print without data selection

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Invoice Clerk: Favretti Tel.: (212) 99-10 Fax: (212) 99-12 Date: 10/16/2000

Dear Sir or Madam, we would appreciate payment of the following invoice as

Thank You