Installing SAPforms 

Procedure

To install SAPforms, run the SAPSETUP.EXE program from the SAP Presentation CD. Choose the Forms SDK component.

SAPforms will only run on a Windows 32-bit platform!

The setup program will then guide you through the installation process. During this process,

  1. the SAPforms ActiveX components are installed to the subdirectory SAPforms\Bin.
  2. the SAPforms ActiveX components are registered.
  3. some shared components are installed in the Windows system directory.
  4. the SAPforms\Samples directory is installed that contains the examples referred to in this documentation.
  5. subdirectories are installed under SAPforms that contain the source code of some of the SAPforms components.

Once you have installed SAPforms, you should start with the introductory example Getting Started.

Result

To verify that installation succeeded please execute the following programs:

This program checks whether the SAP components WDTTREE.OCX and WDTVOCX.OCX were correctly installed.

This program checks whether the SAP components WDTLOG.OCX and WDTFUNCS.OCX for remote communication with R/3 were correctly installed. You do not need to run this program, and indeed will not be able to, if your R/3 System is not available.

To perform the check, choose R3Logon and log on to an available system. Then choose Call Function Module to run a test RFC.

If the binding dialog screen of the SAPforms Designer then appears, SAPforms was installed correctly. WDFDES.EXE is the stand-alone version of the SAPforms Designer and has its own desktop icon ( sapfff.ico ).