Designing Forms with Visual Basic (SAP Library - SAP Business Workflow (BC-BMT-WFM))

Designing Forms with Visual Basic

Use

To use the form integration technology, you need both SAPforms and a development environment for electronic forms.

Visual Basic is one such development environment.

It is also possible to create forms in MS Outlook, MS Word and MS Excel .

In this documentation, it is assumed that you are using Visual Basic. This applies to the application examples in particular.

Prerequisites

You must install SAPforms.

You should have a basic knowledge of programming with Visual Basic.

Features

SAPforms largely consist of ActiveX components.

If you are using the SAPforms Designer, these components are addressed directly when the form is generated. On one hand, the SAPforms Designer inserts code in your form ( Code inserted by the SAPforms Designer) that accesses these components.

On the other hand, all of the important form information is stored in the TAG attribute of the form. This applies in particular to the bindings between the form controls and the interface parameters in the R/3 System.

You can also address the SAPforms interface directly with Visual Basic by programming your own ActiveX components. See also:

Programming forms

Activities

Choose File ® New Project to create a new Visual Basic project. Choose the project type Standard.EXE .

Insert the controls that you need to provide the required functionality in the form ("form 1"). If you want to want to display or fill multiple-line elements from the R/3 System, use the SAP Table View Control or the MS FlexGrid Control.

Call the SAPforms Designer via add-ins, choose an interface, define the bindings, and generate the form.

Or: Program the interface directly.

Or: Use the SAP Submit control.

Compile an EXE file from your Visual Basic project and distribute it to the users.