Graphical User Interface (SAP Library - SAP Smart Forms (BC-SRV-SCR))

Graphical User Interface

Use

SAP Smart Forms provide a graphical user interface that helps you create and maintain the layout and the form logic of a form: the SAP Form Builder. You need neither have any programming knowledge nor use a Script language to adapt standard forms. Basic ABAP programming skills are required only in special cases (for example, to call a function module you created or for complex and extensive conditions).

Features

The SAP Form Builder of the SAP Smart Forms consists of:

Form Painter for creating the layout of a form,
PC Editor for entering texts and fields into output areas,
Navigation tree for maintaining the form logic,
Table Painter for creating templates and tables,
Form check.

To define text formats, use style maintenance (transaction SMARTSTYLES ;see also Smart Styles).

Activities

The SAP Smart Forms initial screen is the starting point for maintaining forms, styles, and text modules:

Choose transction SMARTFORMS .
The dialog window SAP Smart Forms: Request appears.

Select Form, Style, or Text module, depending on which object you want to create, display, or change.

Enter the name of the object.

Choose Create, Change, or Display.

Depending on the radio button you selected (Form, Style, Text module), the system branches to the Form Builder, the style maintenance (transaction SMARTSTYLES ), or to the text module maintenance.