Maintaining Plug-Ins and Opening a Structure 

Prerequisites

You have created a form with Visual Basic. You have launched the SAPforms Designer as a Visual Basic add-in and are in the main window of the SAPforms Designer. The form controls are shown in the table displayed in the bottom control.

The procedure described below is the same if you are using the Submit control or the stand-alone version of the SAPforms Designer.

Procedure

Maintain Plug-Ins

By maintaining the plug-ins, you define how the form communicates with the R/3 System.

  1. Choose Tools ® Options.
  2. Select the tab page Plug-Ins.
  3. In the SAP Data Plug-In box, enter the SAPData type plug-in for the R/3 interface you want to address.

    4. The SAPforms Form Plug-Ins value is set by default according to the form development environment you are using. If you are using the stand-alone version of the SAPforms Designer, you must also maintain this plug-in.

  4. In the SAP Transmit Plug-In box, enter the SAPXmit type plug-in for the communication method you want to use. Only the Plug-Ins of type SAPXmit which correspond to the SAPData Plug-In selected are available here.
  5. Exit the dialog box.

The main window of the Designer is then displayed again.

The list below contains the plug-ins that are required for the various R/3 functions:

R/3 function

Entry in the SAP Data Plug-In box.

Entry in the SAP Transmit Plug-In box.

Starting tasks

Execute work items

SAPforms Data Plug-In for Workflow

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for RFC

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for MAPI

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for SAPMAPI

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for SMTP via WinSock

Calling a BAPI

SAPforms Data Plug-In for Function Modules

- No entry -

Use an IDoc

SAPforms Data Plug-In for IDoc

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for RFC

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for MAPI

SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for SAPMAPI

Opening a Structure

  1. Choose File ® Open SAP Structures and then the structure that you want to open.

    2. A dialog box is then displayed prompting you to identify (for example, by the workflow number) the structure you want to start. For more information, see the detailed procedures.

    Maintaining Plug-Ins and Opening a Structure: BAPI

    Maintaining Plug-Ins and Opening a Structure: IDoc

    Maintaining Plug-Ins and Opening a Structure: Workflow

  2. Identify the structure.

Result

The interface description is exported from R/3 and displayed as a tree in the top control of the main SAPforms Designer window. You can now define the binding.

Defining and generating a binding