Creating and Editing Interactive Forms 

Use

To support your form-based business processes, you create and edit interactive forms using the Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Form Builder). The Adobe LiveCycle Designer is software from the company Adobe Systems Inc. that is integrated in the SAP environment. For more information about the Adobe LiveCycle Designer, see the Procedure tab page under More ® Help.

The Adobe LiveCycle Designer covers two areas:

●     The left side contains a window with the tab page Data View.

This area contains all form fields that you have defined in the form scenario or that you have transferred to the ISR scenario as characteristics using the comparison with the form scenario.

The following fields and structures also appear:

ISR_LONG_TEXT

ISR_NEW_LONG_TEXT

ISR_AUTOMATIC_UPDATE

GENERAL_DATA

CONTROL_PARAM

You should not use these fields or structures in HR Administrative Services since their behavior can change at any time.

●     The right side contains a window with the tab page Library.

This area contains all screen elements that you can use to structure the form. Use drag and drop to drag the screen elements to the form. SAP provides an own library of screen elements under the name ISR Native Controls. This library is specially adjusted for use in ISR scenarios. Do not use the ISR Controls library as this contains obsolete interface elements. If the ISR Native Controls library is not available automatically, see SAP Note 947633.

If possible, use only screen elements from this Library.

The ISR screen elements contain special scripting that is adjusted to use in the ISR environment.

To view (and edit if necessary) this scripting, in Adobe LiveCycle Designer, choose Pallets ® Script Editor. In the dialog box that opens, in the dropdown list choose Display ® Events with Scripts.

Features

The Adobe LiveCycle Designer provides you with the following functions for editing interactive forms:

●     Creation of form fields with data integration

For detailed information, see Creating Form Fields with Data Binding.

●     Entry of agent (processor) notes

A standard function is provided for entering agent notes in the form. To use this form, the automatically generated fields HRASR_PREVIOUS_NOTES and HRASR_CURRENT_NOTE must be used. The field HRASR_CURRENT_NOTE enables the current agent of the form to enter notes when he runs the process. The field HRASR_PREVIOUS_NOTES shows the current agent all notes entered in previous processing steps. For detailed information, see Using Form Fields to Enter Agent Notes.

●     Creation of dropdown list boxes

In contrast to the SAP GUI, in an interactive form, it is currently not possible to provide input help (F4 help) for an input field. However, it is possible to use dropdown list boxes and thus define the set of valid entries uniquely. The prerequisite for this is that, for the field in the form scenario, you have either defined a manual value help or configured the value help such that it is provided by means of a backend service. For detailed information, see Creating Dropdown List Boxes.

●     Creation of pushbuttons

In a form, you can create pushbuttons with which the user can trigger actions at runtime. The following actions are supported:

○     Initialization of the entire form

The pushbutton for initializing the entire form resets the form to its initial status. The content of all fields is deleted and default values are redetermined (if defined). The field Effective Date(EFFECTIVE_DATE) is particularly important here. This field is not reset. The current date entered is used to calculate the (time-dependent) default values.

○     Triggering of a roundtrip to check the data entered and to calculate dependent fields

For detailed information, see Creating Pushbuttons.

Activities

You access the Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Form Builder) through the Customizing for HR Administrative Services:

You can access the functions for creating or editing interactive forms under Configuration of Forms/Processes ® Cross-Form Settings ® Create ISR Scenario:

●     Choose Version in the dialog structure.

The Change Versionview appears.

●     Choose Generate to create the form or Change Adobe Form to edit the form.