Designing Forms with Microsoft Visual Basic (SAP Library

Designing Forms with Microsoft Visual Basic

Use

To use SAPforms Forms, you require a development environment for these forms in addition to SAPforms.

Microsoft Visual Basic is one such development environment.

It is also possible to create forms in Microsoft Outlook.

Note

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

Prerequisites

You have Microsoft Visual Basic

You must install SAPforms.

You should have a basic knowledge of programming with Microsoft 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. The SAPforms Designer inserts source code in your form that accesses these components. For more information, see Source Code Inserted by the SAPforms Designer.

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 SAP System.

You can also address the SAPforms interface directly with Microsoft Visual Basic by programming your own ActiveX components. For more information, see Programming Forms.

Activities

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

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

Call the SAPforms Designer using Add-ins, choose an interface, define the bindings, and generate the form. Alternatively, you can directly program the interface or use the SAP Submit Control Element.

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