Hi  Guys

i have Different type of requirement

once i completed invoice --print out will go to To Ship to party also as well as Bill to party /payer

From functional side what settings we do

While adding Ship to party in V/57 Condition table system is showing Error message

Function code is not selected   00255 message no

Hi Everyone!

I have and output type defined to send delivery notes by email.

I can't find where or how is defined the distribution list for this documents.

Could you please give me a clue?

It would be very helpful to request to the keyuser to change it.

Thank you

Dear Experts,

I am developing print form using Adobe.

my form is working perfectly as per the requiement  excet one issue.  In my print form I dont want to display the 0.00 value instead it shuld be display as plak.   If any values is that in the cell then only it should display the value.

I saw few threads in SDN before posting this question.

Some one suggested that we need to change the filed to text fiel and write java.script to get this.

I followd tha same but did not get the requried result.

I want my output to look like.

Thanks and Regards

Anees Ahmed Jawad

I have created an Adobe Form (not interactive) that looks perfectly OK when previewed in Adobe Acrobat viewer but when printed blank margins of 4-5 millimeters are applied on all 4 paper edges. The form was designed with a coloured frame around it but the margins effectively remove most of the frame. The form content is being cropped instead of being compressed inside the margins.

The form has been created with LiveCycle Designer via SAP transaction SFP. I am generating the form from an ABAP program

When the form is printed from the Adobe Acrobat viewer I have the option to set Page Scaling to 'Fit to Printable Area'. This makes the form content being compressed inside the blank margins and the coloured frame remains intact. If I leave the Page Scaling setting as 'None' the output is being cropped as described above.

The real problem occurs when I want to print without previewing first. I need to do that since previewing enables the user to skip printing and the application must know if the form has been printed or not. I have so far found no way to make the printer print on the paper edges or fit the content to printable area. Is there some setting in the output parameters than handles this?

Also there is a need for duplex printing when sending form directly to printer. On help.sap.com there is information about duplex print for SAPscript and Smartforms but nothing for Adobe Forms.

Here is an excerpt of the ABAP code used for printing the Adobe Form:

  DATA: zs_outparams TYPE sfpoutputparams,

             z_fmname     TYPE rs38l_fnam.

• Set some print parameters

  zs_outparams-nodialog = abap_true.        "No user dialog

  zs_outparams-device   = 'PRINTER'.          "Output device

  zs_outparams-dest     = z_pdest.              "Printer name

  zs_outparams-reqnew   = abap_true.        "New spool request

  zs_outparams-reqimm   = abap_true.        "Print immediately

• Open print job

  CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_OPEN'

    CHANGING

      ie_outputparams = zs_outparams

    EXCEPTIONS

      cancel          = 1

      usage_error     = 2

      system_error    = 3

      internal_error  = 4

      OTHERS          = 5.

  IF sy-subrc <> 0.

    RAISE print_error.

  ENDIF.

• Get FM name for form

  CALL FUNCTION 'FP_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'

    EXPORTING

      i_name     = 'Z_TEST_FORM'

    IMPORTING

      e_funcname = z_fmname.

• Call FM to print form

  CALL FUNCTION z_fmname

    EXPORTING

      i_header       = t_data_for_form

    EXCEPTIONS

      usage_error    = 1

      system_error   = 2

      internal_error = 3

      OTHERS         = 4.

  IF sy-subrc <> 0.

    RAISE print_error.

  ENDIF.

• Close print job

  CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_CLOSE'

    EXCEPTIONS

      usage_error    = 1

      system_error   = 2

      internal_error = 3

      OTHERS         = 4.

  IF sy-subrc <> 0.

    "Ignore

  ENDIF.

Please advise on how to

-  avoid the content cropping

-  enable duplex print

when sending Adobe forms directly to the printer

Thanks very much!

Bernt Evensen

Hi all,

Today’s blog is the first of a series in Output Management. I really thought a long time about what to focus here and finally I found it.

So now, some of you might think: “What he’s talking about?” – I’m talking about developing a driver program from the very beginning with all the necessary steps between.

There are some blogs available at the moment and I want to draw the whole picture, so that everyone is able to start from the beginning and hopefully got a good developed driver program and also a good Sapscript/Smartforms/Adobe in the end.

A guide how to handle the process from the request to the final form.

What to do before getting your hands on your keyboard and what not to forget when having the hands on there

30% is developing with the hands on the keyboard, what are the other 70%?

What do you expect from your output?

This blog will focus on the different techniques and what are the advantages and disadvantages, all from my very personal point. I will also share my lessons learned and perhaps it helps some to avoid some pitfalls. This blog complete the first part of the process.

How to begin – What are the different sources and what is a good basis to start with?

Where to look for proper/preconfigured programs/forms and how I decide if I take it or leave it in the end.

Interfaces in forms – What to do and what not to do?

There are a lot of mistakes out there or people believe how things work. Because it is showing the correct value doesn't mean that it is a good solution. I don't want to tell more right now.

How to enhance my own programs – Enhance the interface?

This blog will focus on the interface itself and how to make your life easier when the program returns to you.  I’m not sure at the moment if it gets an own blog or if I include it in the Interface in forms blog… I will see at the moment I’m writing it.

Make your smartforms more readable

That is already here. Here is the link:10 Tips how to make a smartform easier and more readable

And because this intro blog would be really short I start here with the first blog in the series

What to do before getting your hands on your keyboard and what not to forget when having the hands on there

The headline says the complete blog in on sentence. You got different techniques to develop an output for your customer / company (or whatever you are developing for).

That means in the beginning you have to translate all the necessary things from the business.

Until this point there is no difference between developing and if you follow a previous recommendation of mine

Be a better developer

I think everything is fine.

But, forms are most of the times not in the direct focus. The reason might be that all people focus on the system and the doing inside it.

Easy example, business is thinking about having new pricing things, everybody focus on the calculation view and if everything is managed correct. Often the form is passed out and in the end there is a ticket for me

But that is not everything you have to think about. I made myself a decision-card which I use a couple weeks right now.

It doesn't contain the whole picture I think, but if you take care about these points (ok, here is my counting again) I’m pretty sure you can speed up your developing or if you are doing it in a similar way you are able to add something useful to it.

Ten questions I ask always in the beginning:

1^st What techniques are available in this system?

If Adobe is available try to use it. It is the state-of-the-art technique and you are very flexible with it.

2^nd Are there other forms already developed?

I always try to match the “mainstream” in a system. All forms developed with Sapscript and no need to change to another technique out of the business requirement I stay with Sapscript.

3^rd Is a corporate design necessary?

Normally there is one in a company. You need to take care about it in any case, if there is no hard-written book available take your time to check other forms and have a look at it. It ends in a lot of wasted time when you are just designing things by your own. It is just like music, not everyone likes hard rock.

4^th Is a layout-proposal offered?

Nice if you have one, but most of the times it just contains less information, because the business cannot imagine the output in the end (at least all the different variants). So it is very important to call the responsible persons from time to time and discuss the next steps.

5^th Do you need special information on the form?

That question is not that clear, what I mean is if it is necessary to print a datamatrix / barcode or if the form is planned to put in the next machine afterwards (automatic mail-machine for invoices for example).

6^th What about future requirements?

Any plans to enhance the today-build program? I let all the stuff explain to me and decide within the future requirements. It doesn't help you and your business just because of saving one or two days of developing today, if that mean you need a lot more time in future to maintain or to enhance the form.

7^th What kind of device-types are installed?

Different types mean different behavior and so I have to know before starting with my work. There a lot of OSS-Notes out there, for example this one: 90437 Generic device types do have less space between letters. That is very important to know before designing the layout.

8^th How many people using the form in the end and how much printouts are expected?

This is a very important question too, this let me decide how I handle my data.  Example: Business wants a delivery number printed. The select need to pass 5 tables before it is available. This information helps me to redesign the process and not let my driver-program fetch the information leaving every performance behind. Sometimes this leads to a complete other developing for me too.

9^th Translation needed?

Answered with yes, what is the default and if already forms there how is the translation managed? (This is another story to tell, because there is another way next to the SE63 available, a custom-made way, but in my opinion with a lot advantages)

10^th Are you pretty sure about the nine questions before?

The most important question at all. Make sure you write down all the answers and summarize it in a document and give it back to the business. Everybody involved should have a copy of it (also the guys of the marketing division).

In any way keep always in mind that another developer should be able to answer all the given questions with this document. It always helps to sent it before to another developer and ask for feedback.

That’s it, this is the first part of my blog series and I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Feel free to leave a comment and/or give your opinion to this topic.

Cheers

Florian

Hi experts ,

         Can anyone guide me for writing a driver program for ADOBE forms ( created using SFP transaction) . I have created the form but dont know how to run it using a driver program since i m new to SFP.

       Plz help me.

Message was edited by:

        suchita phulkar

Dear Experts,

I have a requirement where I want that at the time when Invoice is printed, along with it the delivery should automatically be printed as well. Invoice is created from VF01 and prints are taken manually through issue output, I want to call the smartform associated with Delivery note so that delivery note and Invoice are printed at the same time i.e. when invoice is created.

any help would be must appreciated

Regards,

Ali.

HiI，

Recently my company has to install the adobe service ,

my question is

1,is there any request for the hardware to install ADS?

2,any document like the installation guaid?

Thanks

Shiro

Hello Gurus,

I have a problem, I am not understand why my smartform are not aligned, please see image below:

As you can see, the number 4 are not aligned, and first line, (ITEM) show not aligned.

anyone can help me?

Hello,

We are running SAP ECC6 SPS28.

The system is Unicode, The sapscripts forms have all been developed in Russian.

When trying to display the SAPScript form in Russian, we have some strange issue :

SE71 --> Windows--->Main

cyrillic characters are not displayed :

20 minutes later when I go back to se71 , cyrillic characters are displayed.

This happens whether we log in in Russian or English, all users are impacted

The first time when we opened it , the characters are always OK, then any minor change, and it will look like above.

I checked i18n, the defalut editor is MS Word

I do not know what is happening, we have one unique server ...

Any help would be highly appreciated

Thanks

Dear all,

I would be pleased to get your help.

I want to send an email-notification to the customer after saving his sales order via VA01.

The email-notification should contain the sales order number and text e.g.: “Thank you for your order”.

Text depends on order type.

The only way how I could handle that is using the output configurations of sales order itself.

In output I have medium external send option. The output will be send as mail attachment to the customer.

But I would need the text directly in the mail – not as attachment.

Any ideas how to do that?

Dear All,

Quick Basic questions

Requirement : We would like to have the invoice (Smartforms) printed in the Japanese language in our system .

1. Currently only DE and EN languages are activated in SMLT and JP is added in I18N but the language packs are not imported .

2. When the developers preview the contents in the sap screen JP characters are displayed but when I tried to preview the spool in PDF format all the         JP characters are displaying as Hash characters .

3. JP users will be login to the system only in English but these invoices has to be printed in the JP characters .

4. Is the Language import is necessary to achieve the above . 

Appreciate your input and help .

Regards

Satish

Standard terms and conditions have been included in a smart form, and for this a separate style set was defined, including styles where the numbering type is defined with List = List Character and Character = the bullet character from the Arial monospaced for SAP font (U+2022) - part of the General Punctuation subarea of Unicode.

The standard smartform print program is used (albeit a copy from the SAP Best Practices Baseline package for Norway), i.e. YBNO

When output medium = 1 (print) and the printer uses access method M (Email) and driver PDFUC (PDF Unicode 1.2) the output is fine.

When the driver is PDF1 (PDF ISO Latin-1), and everything else as above, the bullets are replaced by hash signs, i.e. #.

When output medium = 5 (send external) and regardless of printer driver (I have tried 3), the bullets are replaced by hash signs.

The printer driver should be of less importance in the latter case since the PDF that ends up in the SAPConnect queue (transaction SOST) is generated by function module CONVERT_OTF.

As far as I understand from various OSS Notes the CONVERT_OTF function module should support unicode, but my observations indicate that it does at least not support the bullets from Arial monospace for SAP. Since the output is as expected with the unicode PDF driver I have ruled out that this can be caused by problems in Adobe PDF Reader or local fonts on the PC.

Basis release 740, Application Platform release 700.

Report RSTXPDF3

I have tried changing the options for the PDF converter, setting USE_CASCADING = On, UPE_FONTS_CASC = On and eventually also NO_FONT_SUBSET = On, without noticing any difference.

Report RSTXPDF2UC

I have tried the "Change Settings" option for Fonts from Font Repository without noticing any difference in behaviour.

The font mapping SAP -> PDF lists the used fonts (HELVE) for device type SWINCF as using the font integrated in PDF VIewer.

There seems to be no custom settings for font mapping.

I have also tried (after finding the tip here on SCN) the SAP symbols (Insert, Characters, SAP Symbols) where symbol SYM_FILLED_CIRCLE is a nice bullet point. When this character is selected "<680>" is inserted in the SAP Script editor of the text module.

The filled circle is included in all the printouts, although half overlapped with the next character. This is no solution as entering <680> as the bullet character in the list style gives the expected result: <680> (and not the symbol) is used as the list character - and a list character is needed for proper alignment of multi-line list items.

I can't be the first person to need bullet points in a Smart Form - so please share your wisdom!

PS: I just noticed that the same problem applies to the En Dash (U+2013) which has been used in one of the item texts of my test document.

Here's a weird one for you. When viewing a PO using command PDF!, PO is opened in Adobe X. We then try to save the PO to our SharePoint. Everything behaves normally but the PO does not get saved in SP site. We can save the PO top desktop, open it in Adobe X and save it to SP and it works. Can save PO to anywhere else on network or locally using PDF!, but just not to any SharePoint site.

Hello when I print an order payment in F110  shows very small, please see my image below:

Do you know what I need to to resize this print? I need  this in full size. Where I need to configured this? and please let me know if this work its for my BASIS Team or My functional Team or maybe my ABAP Team.

Regards,

Luis.

Hi experts,

I need to develop form for printing receipt from cash journal (transaction. FBCJ). There is some standard SAPScript form, but because I'm not so familiar with SAPScripts, I need to do it in Smartforms.

Is there some standard program for smartform printing or do I need to develop my own program?

Thanks&regards,

Jirka

I am printing 5 different smartforms in a single spool.  Some of the forms are multiple pages.  How do you send staple command for forms that are multipage, but in the same spool file as forms that are single page.

When I set the printer initialization to staple for a format, then entire spool output get staples together

Thanks,

Mike Vollmer

Hi all,

I'm working on smart forms, The thing is, thickness of the table frame is not reducing in the output, see the following screen shots for more details.

Out put.

Hi everyone,

I´m facing a problem with the amount format of some checks, when I look at the check in SAP the amount is correct, for example: $20,123.45 but when I send the check to the printer, the amount changes to $20.123.45. As you can see, the comma used is changed by a dot so the check is denied becuase the amount format is incorrect.

Do you have any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks!!

I have implemented the purchase order smart form according to the guidelines in the Best Practices Baseline package for Norway.

Basis release 740, Application Platform release 700.

When using output medium 1 (Print) and a printer with access method M (Email) and driver PDFUC (PDF Unicode 1.2) the output is correct.

With output medium 5 (Send external) - regardless of printer - bullet point characters (U+2022) and long dashes (U+2013) are replaced by hash signs.

With output medium = 1 and a printer using driver PDF1 (PDF ISO Latin-1) the same replacement of unicode characters occur.

This indicates that the function module CONVERT_OTF, which creates the PDF that is attached to the email generated when output medium is 5, does not support unicode. Since the output is as expected with the unicode PDF driver I have ruled out that this can be caused by problems in Adobe PDF Reader or local fonts on the PC.

However, as far as I understand from various OSS Notes the CONVERT_OTF function module should support unicode.

Here's what I recall having tried to solve the problem.

Report RSTXPDF3

I have tried changing the options for the PDF converter, setting USE_CASCADING = On, UPE_FONTS_CASC = On and eventually also NO_FONT_SUBSET = On, without noticing any difference.

Report RSTXPDF2UC

I have tried the "Change Settings" option for Fonts from Font Repository without noticing any difference in behaviour.

The font mapping SAP -> PDF lists the used fonts (HELVE) for device type SWINCF as using the font integrated in PDF VIewer.

There seems to be no custom settings for font mapping.

I have also tried (after finding the tip here on SCN) the SAP symbols (Insert, Characters, SAP Symbols) where symbol SYM_FILLED_CIRCLE is a nice bullet point. When this character is selected "<680>" is inserted in the SAP Script editor of the text module.

The filled circle is included in all the printouts, although half overlapped with the next character. This is no solution as entering <680> as the bullet character in the list style gives the expected result: <680> (and not the symbol) is used as the list character - and a list character is needed for proper alignment of multi-line list items.

And of course I have asked The Machine Which Can Answer Many Questiosn (Google) - without finding a solution. I can't be the first person to need Unicode punctuation characters in a Smart Form - so please share your wisdom!

For a fixed text I can replace these characters with non-unicode characters, but the characters can also be part of the item description or one of the item or header long texts that are included in the output - so replacements are not an option. We have to either get the unicode characters included in the PDF when using output medium = 5 or warn our purchasers that they have to check for incorrect output when the vendor gets the purchase order via email.