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Use

Integration of form overlay enables you to define forms for individual documents, or groups of documents, when storing outgoing documents. The forms are then stored together with the document. This means you can include graphics, such as logos, and also variable or fixed texts in the actual content of the outgoing document.

Features

The following examples are available for form overlay when storing outgoing documents in PDF format.

Activities

Form S_FORM_TEST_02

  1. To go to the form painter, choose
    Tools ® SAPscript ® Form.

    2. For information on the form painter, see the documentation Structure linkBC - Maintaining Styles and Forms.

  2. Enter the name of the example form S_FORM_TEST_02.

Page layout for the first page:

Content

Description

Main window

Introduction, content, concluding remark

Address

Title, name, street, zip code, town

Footer

Variable or fixed text

Header

Variable or fixed text

Sender

Grayed-out text box with variable and/or fixed text

 

Page layout for further pages:

Content

Description

Main window

Introduction, content, concluding remark

Footer

Variable or fixed text

Header

Variable or fixed text

Page number

Number

 

You can change the elements using the form painters by adding fixed and variable texts, graphics, tables and so on.

Print program OATESTFORM

  1. Execute the program OATESTFORM in the ABAP editor.

The "ArchiveLink: Storing Outgoing Documents with Form" screen is displayed.

The following fields already contain entries, as far as is possible:
  1. Change the content of the fields if necessary.
  2. Choose Program ® Execute.

    3. The print screen is displayed.

    The fields on the print screen contain entries.

  3. Change the content of the fields if necessary.
  4. Choose Output ® Print.

    5. The object type and document type are already entered in the dialog box containing the storage parameters.

  5. Change the content of the fields as required and choose Store to confirm.

Entries are made in the DARA lines and storing is started for the outgoing document.

You receive a message informing you that the storage or print request has been generated.

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