Creating Layouts with Adobe LiveCycle Designer

SAP-Specific Objects for Form Design

Adobe LiveCycle Designer provides you with objects that you can use to design your form layout. Also included are some objects developed specially for the SAP development environment.

The SAP-specific objects are described in the online help for Adobe LiveCycle Designers at the following location: Working with Objects  Using User-Defined Objects  User-Defined Objects for the SAP Environment.

Output of Date Objects in German and US Format

Under Library   Form Builder, Adobe LiveCycle Designer provides you with the following date objects:

• Localized Full Date

• Localized Long Date

• Localized Medium Date

• Localized Short Date

You use these date objects to format dates locally when you call the form. The dates are formatted according to the parameter values entered for language and country in the application program. These values are sent to the generated function module that contains the form description:

data fp_docparams type sfpdocparams.

[...]

* German format

fp_docparams-langu = 'D'.

fp_docparams-country = 'DE'.

* US format

* fp_docparams-langu = 'EN'.

* fp_docparams-country = 'US'.

* Call the generated function module

call function fm_name

exporting

/1bcdwb/docparams = fp_docparams

Date Display as Specified by Date Object

More information: Example: Calling Forms in an Application Program

FormCalc Language Reference

Adobe's FormCalc provides a simple script language for typical calculations in forms. For information about FormCalc and a FormCalc language reference, see the online help for Adobe LiveCycle Designer or print it as a PDF file. The PDF file is in your local installation of Adobe LiveCycle Designer, for example under C:\Program Files\Adobe\Designer <version>\Documentation\<land>\FormCalc.pdf .

For <land> , enter the two-digit country code, for example DE for a German installation.