Additional Installations on the Client
PC
To use SAP Interactive Forms on a client PC, you need to install the following components on the client:
● Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (Version 7.0.9 or higher)
You need Adobe Reader or Acrobat to preview SAP Interactive Forms at design time or to display them in your Web browser. You may need to do this, for example, when you edit fields in online or offline scenarios.
You can have both Adobe Reader and Acrobat installed on the client. You can choose whether Adobe Reader or Acrobat is used to open a PDF document. You can configure this during the installation procedure or in the configuration settings of your system. In a Microsoft Windows environment, for example, choose Start ® Settings ® Control Panel. Then choose Folder Options ® File Types to specify which program you want to use to open PDF files.
For additional and current information about the required version of Adobe Reader or Acrobat, refer to SAP Note 834573. You can obtain a free download of the Adobe Reader from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
● SAP Web Dynpro Active Component Framework (ACF)
The ACF is a framework for integrating Active Components such as ActiveX and Java Applets into Web Dynpro. To install ACF, you need to have administrator authorization on the client PC. To run ACF, you must enable ActiveX in your Web browser. For additional and current information about installing the ACF, refer to SAP Note 766191.
In releases as of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SPS10 you can use interactive forms in the Web Dynpro runtime environment based on Zero Client Installation (ZCI) technology. ZCI enables you to use interactive forms in Adobe Reader without any additional plug-ins, and also has the benefit of being platform-independent. This means that ACF is no longer required for interactive forms. Forms for ZCI, however, must include special scripting. You must migrate any interactive forms that are not yet ZCI-enabled. For more information, see SAP Notes 956074, 947675 and 1042394.