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SAP Smart Forms is used to create and maintain forms
for mass printing in SAP Systems.As output medium
SAP Smart Forms support a printer, a fax, e-mail, or the
Internet (by using the generated XML output).
The transaction code is SMARTFORMS.
Smartforms are client independent objects.
Smartforms are advanced version of SAP Scripts.
It is a GUI tool and it is user friendly.
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There are two main nodes in Smartforms.
1.Global Settings Form Attribute.
Form Interface.
Global Definition.
2.Pages and Windows.
COMPONENTS OF SMARTFORMS.
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Global settings:
It is used to provide the basic settings for the smartform.
Form Attributes:
It specifies the general attributes like who created,Date,time,
package,translate options, default smartstyle, Page format
(DINA4/DINA5).
Form interface:
It acts as a mediator between a driver program and a smart
form.
The main functionality of form interface is, it will import the
parameters which are exported by driver program.
The parameters can be variables, work areas, internal
tables..etc.
Global definition:
It will contain the variables to be used within the smart form.
We can define variables, user defined data types, field symbols,
initialization code,Subroutine, currency/quantity fields.
It is mainly used for declaring or defining the above variables.
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Pages and windows :
This will contain all the pages and the
windows, which are used in the smartform.
By default, a page will be created by name
%page1.
By default, a window will be created by
name 'Main' under the page1.
For each page, we need to specify the next
page.
Eg: page = %page1
Next page = %page1 or %page2
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Page : It is used to define the layout of a smartform.
We can have different pages with different layouts.
Window : it is used to display information or text at
a particular place on a page.
Graphic : it is used to display logos or images on the
smartforms.
Address : It is used to display the address of
customer or vendor or employee, organization
address , workplace address etc.
Just provide address no, it will automatically display
the address as per the country formats.
Nodes under pages
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Text : it is used to display the information or text in a
window.
Table : It is used to display the information in the form of
table.
When ever we create table by default HEADER, MAIN
AREA, FOOTER will be displayed.
The main functionality of a table is, it expands
automatically depending on the internal table data.
We need to provide the name of the internal table for a
table.
Template : template is also like a table which does not
expand. That means it will have fixed number of rows
and columns.
Program lines : it is used to write some lines of abap
code.
Nodes under the window
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Main window: For continuous output .
Secondary window: For output with a fixed length.
Final window: Special type of secondary window for
outputting the information that is not known until
the end of form processing .
Copies window: Special type of secondary window
for marking pages as copy or original.
Window Types in Smartforms
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Steps :
Transaction : SMARTFORMS .
Enter the Form name and click on create.
