Maintaining Plug-Ins and Opening a Structure: IDocs 

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. The form controls are shown in the table displayed in the bottom control.

Procedure

Maintain Plug-Ins

  1. Choose Tools ® Options.

    2. The Options dialog box of the SAPforms Designer is then displayed.

  2. Select the Plug-Ins tab page.

    3. Enter SAPforms Data Plug-In for IDoc in the SAPData Plug-In.

    The value in the SAPforms Plug-In box 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.

  3. Enter SAPforms Transmit Plug-In for RFC in the SAP Transmit Plug-In.
  4. Exit the dialog box.

Opening a Structure

  1. Choose File ® Open SAP Structure and then the entry for IDoc structures.

    2. A dialog box is then displayed in which you can choose whether you want to retrieve an IDoc description from the R/3 System via RFC (From R/3) or import it from a local file (From File).

    You can only import the description from a local file if you have already exported it from the R/3 System.

    Accessing the local file is the faster option. For more information see generating IDocs

    When you select this the top control is divided in two. You can now display an instance of your IDoc structure in the right-hand control.

  2. Choose File ® Open IDoc Instance.

Result

The segment description of the IDoc is exported from R/3 and displayed as a tree in the top left-hand control in the main SAPforms Designer window.