How to Build a Form with Smartforms by Stefanos Moschidis

How to Build a Form with Smartforms

Call the transaction SMARTFORMS.
Enter a name of a new Form to be built
with SMARTFORMS and press the
Create command button.

The Form Builder appears on the screen.

Any node can be selected or expanded
from the left hand side tree menu.

Select the Form Interface node and

provide the names of the internal tables
containing the data. (In this example we
have a Customer table and a
Customer's Transaction Table connected
with an one to many relationship).

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Select the Global Definitions and

provide the names of two variables for
controlling the page break after finishing
a section of a Customer.

In the initialization tab of the Global

Definitions node, give the code
calculating the number of Customers.
Input and output parameters should be
provided so that the code works
correctly.

After expanding the %PAGE1 node, we

can notice that a Main Window exists.
From the context menu (appearing by
clicking the right mouse button) of the
Main window select Create Æ Complex
Section.

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This Section has data which are

processed repeatedly and the Output
Type (the format) is Unstructured.

The data of this Section are retrieved

from the internal table I_ZCUST and are
stored in the data structure I_ZCUST in
each iteration.

At this point select the context menu of

the Section and create a Text Element.

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Type the names of the fields of the

internal table in the General Attributes
tab. The field names are enclosed in
ampersands.

From the context menu of the Text

Element create a series of Program lines.

This series of Program lines, (actually a

single Program line), increases the index
of Customers printed by one (Variable
INDEX_CUST_PRN). Input and Output
parameters should be declared on the
appropriate fields of the tab (In this case
the Input and the Output parameter is
the variable INDEX_CUST_PRN).

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From the context menu of the Program

Lines create a second Complex Section.

This Section has data which are

processed repeatedly. The Output Type
(format) is a table.

Specify a Table Width and a Line Type.

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Select the Data tab and specify the Loop

in the I_ZTRANSACTIONS table and the
Where condition.

On the Events tab select the Header and

Footer events and specify a Height of the
Footer.

Select the Header node and check the

New Line checkbox.

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At this point from the %Section2 context

menu select Create Æ Text.

On the Global Attributes tab of the Text

Element type the fields of the internal
table we wish to show on the form
enclosed in ampersands. The Text node
is Appended directly (check the relevant
radio button).

From the context menu of the Footer

Event select Create Æ Command.

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Drag the %Command1 created and

drop it on the %Section2 node. A popup
window appears and select After the
node %Section2.

So the %Command1 is aligned to the

Footer of %Section2. Check the Go to
New Page checkbox.

Select the Conditions tab of the

Command element an set the condition
that a new page is created if the last
customer is not reached by the printing
process (I e the Index of the Customers
printed is less than the Number of
Customers).

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Start another session and call the

transaction SE78.

Expand the Graphics node on the left

hand side tree menu, select BMAP Grid
screens node and double click on it. On
the right hand side provide the SAP
name of a new graphic and check the
Color radio button. Press the Import
command button.

On the appearing popup window

provide the path where the bitmap
image is stored and check the checkbox
stating that Resides in the Printer
Memory. Press the Continue command
button.

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The appearing screen shows that the

graphic has been successfully imported
into the SAP graphics management.

Go back to the session of

SMARTFORMS and select the %PAGE1
node. From the context menu select
Create Æ Graphic .

On the General Attributes tab of the

%Graphic1 created type the SAP Name
of the graphic and provide the Object,
ID, Color attribute and Resolution.

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Activate the Form from the menu path

Form Æ Activate.

The function module SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME has as its import parameter a name of a

Form created with SMARTFORMS and gives as output a function module name. The latter when
executed with table parameters the internal tables of the SMARTFORMS Form, gives the final printout.
The following code is an example of calling the Form created on the previous steps.

Further reading in the SAP Library on link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/a9/de6838abce021ae10000009b38f842/frameset.h
tm. Or through the path Basis Components Æ Basis Services / Communication Interfaces (BC-SRV) Æ
SAP Smart Forms (BC-SRV-SCR) .

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