Graphic Administration 

Use

You use the graphic administration to import, administer, and transport graphics, and to display them (for example, company logos, material images) in a print preview.

You can either incorporate graphics statically into a form (for example, the company logo) or include them dynamically using an appropriate field (for example, material graphic showing the displayed material). For more information see Printing Graphics.

To copy any form in the Form Painter, you can scan the desired form as graphic and include it into the Form Painter as background graphic (see also Printing Graphics).

Printing graphics redurces the printer performance, since it requires large amounts of data to be sent over the net. For this reason, always make sure that a graphic is really necessary, especially for performance-critical documents (see also Importing Graphics).

Features

You can find any imported graphics in the navigation tree. Before Release 4.6 graphics were stored as standard texts. This is obsolete. As of Release 4.6 graphics are stored on a document server. In addition to *.TIF graphics you can now also import *.BMP files and use them in forms.

To display graphics in their original size, use the preview. To transport graphics into other systems, use the graphic administration as well.

Activities

To start the graphic administration, choose transaction SE78 .

Before you can start to execute any functions, select the desired node in the navigation tree (for example: Stored on document server, Graphics, BMAP grid screen) and specify the name and the attributes of the corresponding graphic. To search for graphics, use F4 help on the Name field.