To support your form-based business processes, you create and edit interactive forms using the Adobe LiveCycle Designer (
Form Builder
). The Adobe LiveCycle Designer is software from the company Adobe Systems Inc. that is integrated in the SAP environment. For more information about the Adobe LiveCycle Designer, see the
Procedure
tab page under
.
The Adobe LiveCycle Designer covers two areas:
The left side contains a window with the tab page
Data View
.
This area contains all form fields that you have defined in the form scenario or that you have transferred to the ISR scenario as characteristics using the comparison with the form scenario.
Caution
The following fields and structures also appear:
ISR_LONG_TEXT
ISR_NEW_LONG_TEXT
ISR_AUTOMATIC_UPDATE
GENERAL_DATA
CONTROL_PARAM
You should not use these fields or structures in
HR Administrative Services
since their behavior can change at any time.
The right side contains a window with the tab page
Library
.
This area contains all screen elements that you can use to structure the form. Use drag and drop to drag the screen elements to the form. SAP provides an own library of screen elements under the name
ISR Native Controls
. This library is specially adjusted for use in ISR scenarios. Do not use the
ISR Controls
library as this contains obsolete interface elements. If the
ISR Native Controls
library is not available automatically, see SAP Note 947633.
Note
If possible, use only screen elements from this
Library
.
The ISR screen elements contain special scripting that is adjusted to use in the ISR environment.
To view (and edit if necessary) this scripting, in Adobe LiveCycle Designer, choose
. In the dialog box that opens, in the dropdown list choose .The Adobe LiveCycle Designer provides you with the following functions for editing interactive forms:
Creation of form fields with data integration
For detailed information, see Creating Form Fields with Data Binding .
Entry of agent (processor) notes
A standard function is provided for entering agent notes in the form. To use this form, the automatically generated fields HRASR_PREVIOUS_NOTES and HRASR_CURRENT_NOTE must be used. The field HRASR_CURRENT_NOTE enables the current agent of the form to enter notes when he runs the process. The field HRASR_PREVIOUS_NOTES shows the current agent all notes entered in previous processing steps. For detailed information, see Using Form Fields to Enter Agent Notes .
Creation of dropdown list boxes
In contrast to the SAP GUI, in an interactive form, it is currently not possible to provide input help (F4 help) for an input field. However, it is possible to use dropdown list boxes and thus define the set of valid entries uniquely. The prerequisite for this is that, for the field in the form scenario, you have either defined a manual value help or configured the value help such that it is provided by means of a backend service. For detailed information, see Creating Dropdown List Boxes .
Creation of pushbuttons
In a form, you can create pushbuttons with which the user can trigger actions at runtime. The following actions are supported:
Initialization of the entire form
The pushbutton for initializing the entire form resets the form to its initial status. The content of all fields is deleted and default values are redetermined (if defined). The field
Effective Date
(EFFECTIVE_DATE) is particularly important here. This field is not reset. The current date entered is used to calculate the (time-dependent) default values.
Triggering of a roundtrip to check the data entered and to calculate dependent fields
For detailed information, see Creating Pushbuttons .
You access the Adobe LiveCycle Designer (
Form Builder
) through the Customizing for
HR Administrative Services
:
You can access the functions for creating or editing interactive forms under
: Choose
Version
in the dialog structure.
The
Change Version
view appears.
Choose
Generate
to create the form or
Change Adobe Form
to edit the form.