What is SAP R/3 Introduction to Best ERP MySAP

Enterprise resource planning is a strategy supported by software products for coordinating the multiple functionality of business process and SAP R/3 is the best product of it.


SAP R/3 system works and produce good results in most of the industries like manufacturing, retail, oil and gas, electricity, health care, pharmaceutical, banking, insurance, telecommunications, transport, automotive, chemical and the list goes on and even individual solutions for available for specific business.

SAP is founded by four young and bright minds of IBM employees after resigning from their job in year 1972 . It was initially started in a small German town Walldorf and it has good good number of employees from the near by university.



In no time it has reached to a stage that every industry starred using it and getting the advantage over the others. First it has developed R/2 system for mainframe applications and later developed SAP R/3 for open client and server application.
SAP is founded by four young and bright minds of IBM employees after resigning from their job in year 1972 . It was initially started in a small German town Walldorf and it has good good number of employees from the near by university. In no time it has reached to a stage that every industry starred using it and getting the advantage over the others. First it has developed R/2 system for mainframe applications and later developed SAP R/3 for open client and server application.

SAP actually stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing.

SAP software includes a standard software package and it can be configured and applied to different areas of a business and it has many regular business scenarios per designed. It is widely used in solving information management problems and it helped it to make it a leading erp of the present world. The SAP always thinks a fresh and come with good ideas and improvement every time a much better product and has got the confidence of customers. Thus the sap company starts growing and has soon turned as one of the worlds best software erp company. The following figures will just give us a glance how sap has raised from the scratch.





SAP started developing industry specific and country specific products and won the hearts of big companies and made fortunes for them and in that process it itself has grown big and right now it has spread all over the world .

The wonderful software and a great data base at the server and a simple to use user friendly interface to make the process of implementing sap easy task.

The number of software installations of SAP has crossed 20000 and the number of product users are more than a million and it has spread its wings quickly and they are wast now and many critical operations of the business are done with SAP. The sap rc3 company values the opinion and feedback of customers very much and keep improving their products basing on it.

The marketing strategy of SAP Company is good and it is also one of the reason to make the leader of ERP. Another secret of SAP success is its investment in research.It spends significant amount of its revenue and man power to improve their products and quality. The people will be keep on working with the feed back that they get from the customers and adding the new futures that customers have asked for.

SAP provides solutions for complete business process right from procurement of raw materiel to delivering the finished product. It helps the every process automated to the maximum extend and allow the on time information which helps in taking right decisions in the business.

Lot of business functionality and process are added to the SAP library and data base in terms of function modules and the customer is free to choose their required one's basing on their business requirement. The erp software also has good flexibility for international customers and available in many languages simentaniously and it makes the end user experience much better.

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SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE

This is in continuation with SAP SMART FORMS PART TWO.


5. Calling SMARTFORMS from your ABAP program Calling SMARTFORMS from your ABAP program.
* Collecting all the table data in your program, and pass once to SMARTFORMS
* SMARTFORMS
* Declare your table type in :-
* Global Settings -> Form Interface
* Global Definintions -> Global Data
* Main Window -> Table -> DATA

TABLES: MKPF
DATA: FM_NAME TYPE RS38L_FNAM.
DATA: BEGIN OF INT_MKPF OCCURS 0.
INCLUDE STRUCTURE MKPF.
DATA: END OF INT_MKPF.
SELECT-OPTIONS S_MBLNR FOR MKPF-MBLNR MEMORY ID 001.
SELECT * FROM MKPF WHERE MBLNR IN S_MBLNR.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING MKPF TO INT_MKPF.
APPEND INT_MKPF.
ENDSELECT.
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At the end of your program.
* Passing data to SMARTFORMS

call function 'SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'
exporting
formname = 'ZSMARTFORM'
* VARIANT = ' '
* DIRECT_CALL = ' '
IMPORTING
FM_NAME = FM_NAME
EXCEPTIONS
NO_FORM = 1
NO_FUNCTION_MODULE = 2
OTHERS = 3.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
WRITE: / 'ERROR 1'.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
* WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
call function FM_NAME
* EXPORTING
* ARCHIVE_INDEX =
* ARCHIVE_INDEX_TAB =
* ARCHIVE_PARAMETERS =
* CONTROL_PARAMETERS =
* MAIL_APPL_OBJ =
* MAIL_RECIPIENT =
* MAIL_SENDER =
* OUTPUT_OPTIONS =
* USER_SETTINGS = 'X'
* IMPORTING
* DOCUMENT_OUTPUT_INFO =
* JOB_OUTPUT_INFO =
* JOB_OUTPUT_OPTIONS =
TABLES
GS_MKPF = INT_MKPF
EXCEPTIONS
FORMATTING_ERROR = 1
INTERNAL_ERROR = 2
SEND_ERROR = 3
USER_CANCELED = 4
OTHERS = 5.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
Additional Fonts for your SMARTFORMS:
You can create additional fonts and style with transaction SMARTSTYLES
This can then be define in the paragraph and character formats, which you can then be assign to texts and fields in the Smart Form.
The character formats includes effects such as superscript, subscript, barcode and font attributes

• SAP SMART FORMS Complete
• SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION
• SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction
• Creating Smart Forms
• SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE

SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction

Smart Forms are used in SAP to create and maintain forms for mass printing. The Smart Forms offers the following advantages:
Creating and maintaining forms require half the time.
Adapting to forms without any programming techniques due to GUI.
Web publishing using the generated XML output.
Migration from SAPScript to Smart Form is supported in smart forms. The important features in smart forms are as listed below:
The smart forms allow the user to execute simple modifications to the form and in the form logic by using simple graphical tools.
To print a form the user will need a program for the data retrieval and a smart form that contains the entire form logic. As these two are separate one should adapt the smart form if changes to the form logic is necessary. The application program passes the data via a function module interface to the smart form. When activating the smart form the system automatically generates the function module and at the runtime process this.
The user designs the form using the graphical form painter and the graphical table painter. The form logic is represented by the hierarchical structure that consists of individual nodes, such as nodes for global settings, nodes for texts, nodes for output tables or nodes for graphics. To make any changes one has to use the Drag&Drop, Cut&Paste. These actions do not include writing of coding lines or using a script language.
For web publishing, the system provides a generated XML output of the processed form.
One can insert static and dynamic tables. These include the line feeds in the individual table cells, triggering events for table headings and subtotals and sorting data before output.
The smart forms allow the user to include graphics, which can be displayed as a part of the form or as background graphics. During printout the user can suppress the background graphic as and when necessary.
The smart forms also supports the postage optimizing.
When a smart form is activated , the system generates a function module that encapsulates all the attributes of the smart form.
As soon as the application program calls the function module, the smart form uses the module interface to transfer any table data previously selected and to print the form according to the form description.

• SAP SMART FORMS Complete
• SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION
• SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction
• Creating Smart Forms
• SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE

Creating Smart Forms

Retrieving the application data:
Write an ABAP program to retrieve data or include a retrieval routine into the application. This code consists of statements that select data from databases according to certain selection criteria. Store the retrieved data in internal tables, structures or variables and transfer it to the form in one step.
Readers has to excuse me as i am unable to finish this post due to technical problems.Any way a complete discussion is done about smart forms including the introduction and you can fine that series here at SAP SMART FORMS COMPLETE.
 
Creating a new Smart Forms part two
Difference with SMARTFORMS vs. SapScript(SE71)

The Following are the differences :-
a) Multiple page formats are possible in smartforms which is not the case in SAPScripts
b) It is possible to have a smartform without a main window .
c) Labels cannot be created in smartforms.
d) Routines can be written in smartforms tool.
e) Smartforms generates a function module when activated.


Smartforms can be used for creating and maintaining forms for mass printing in SAP Systems. The output medium for Smartforms support printer, fax, e-mail, or the Internet (by using the generated XML output).


According to SAP, you need neither have any programming knowledge nor use a Script language to adapt standard forms. However, 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).

1.Create a new smartforms

Transaction code SMARTFORMS
Create new smartforms call ZSMART

2.Define looping process for internal table

Pages and windows
First Page -> Header Window (Cursor at First Page then click Edit -> Node -> Create)
Here, you can specify your title and page numbering
&SFSY-PAGE& (Page 1) of &SFSY-FORMPAGES(Z4.0)& (Total Page)
Main windows -> TABLE -> DATA
In the Loop section, tick Internal table and fill in
ITAB1 (table in ABAP SMARTFORM calling function) INTO ITAB2

3. Define table in smartforms

Global settings :
Form interface
Variable name Type assignment Reference type
ITAB1 TYPE Table Structure
Global definitions
Variable name Type assignment Reference type
ITAB2 TYPE Table Structure

4. To display the data in the form

Make used of the Table Painter and declare the Line Type in Tabstrips Table
e.g. HD_GEN for printing header details,
IT_GEN for printing data details.
You have to specify the Line Type in your Text elements in the Tabstrips Output options.
Tick the New Line and specify the Line Type for outputting the data.
Declare your output fields in Text elements
Tabstrips - Output Options
For different fonts use this Style : IDWTCERTSTYLE
For Quantity or Amout you can used this variable &GS_ITAB-AMOUNT(12.2)&

• SAP SMART FORMS Complete
• SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION
• SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction
• Creating Smart Forms
• SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE

SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION

What is SAP Smart Forms?

SAP Smart Forms is introduced in SAP Basis Release 4.6C as the tool for creating and maintaining forms.
SAP Smart Forms allow you to execute simple modifications to the form and in the form logic by using simple graphical tools; in 90% of all cases, this won't include any programming effort. Thus, a power user without any programming knowledge can configure forms with data from an SAP System for the relevant business processes.
To print a form, you need a program for data retrieval and a Smart Form that contains the entire from logic. As data retrieval and form logic are separated, you must only adapt the Smart Form if changes to the form logic are necessary. The application program passes the data via a function module interface to the Smart Form. When activating the Smart Form, the system automatically generates a function module. At runtime, the system processes this function module.
You can insert static and dynamic tables. This includes line feeds in individual table cells, triggering events for table headings and subtotals, and sorting data before output.
You can check individual nodes as well as the entire form and find any existing errors in the tree structure. The data flow analysis checks whether all fields (variables) have a defined value at the moment they are displayed.
SAP Smart Forms allow you to include graphics, which you can display either as part of the form or as background graphics. You use background graphics to copy the layout of an existing (scanned) form or to lend forms a company-specific look. During printout, you can suppress the background graphic, if desired.
Key Benefits of SAP Smart Forms:
SAP Smart Forms allows you to reduce considerably the implementation costs of mySAP.com solutions since forms can be adjusted in minimum time.
You design a form using the graphical Form Painter and the graphical Table Painter. The form logic is represented by a hierarchy structure (tree structure) that consists of individual nodes, such as nodes for global settings, nodes for texts, nodes for output tables, or nodes for graphics.
To make changes, use Drag & Drop, Copy & Paste, and select different attributes.
These actions do not include writing of coding lines or using a Script language.
Using your form description maintained in the Form Builder, Smart Forms generates a function module that encapsulates layout, content and form logic. So you do not need a group of function modules to print a form, but only one.
For Web publishing, the system provides a generated XML output of the processed form.
Smart Forms provides a data stream called XML for Smart Forms (XSF) to allow the use of 3rd party printing tools. XSF passes form content from R/3 to an external product without passing any layout information about the Smart Form.


Conversion of SAPSCRIPT to SMARTFORMS
SAP provides a conversion for SAPscript documents to SMARTforms.
This is basically a function module, called FB_MIGRATE_FORM. You can start this function module by hand (via SE37), or create a small ABAP which migrates all SAPscript forms automatically.
You can also do this one-by-one in transaction SMARTFORMS, under
Utilities -> Migrate SAPscript form.
You could also write a small batch program calling transaction SMARTFORMS and running the migration tool.

Smart forms is very similar to SAP scripts . This is also a tool which is extensively used to creat layouts and then a separate print program is created. This print program is used to create the output internal table which ibn turn is thrown to the smart form where the field values are displayed .
In the print program mentioned below ...an output internal table is created by populating certain fields from database tables into it . Once the output internal table is ready , then the function module SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME is called . Here , in the import parameters , the name of the smartform is given . The output of this function module is the name of another function module .

Within a form you can use the field string SFSY with its system fields. During form processing the system replaces these fields with the corresponding values. The field values come from the SAP System or are results of the processing.
System fields of Smart Forms
&SFSY-DATE&
Displays the date. You determine the display format in the user master record.
&SFSY-TIME&
Displays the time of day in the form HH:MM:SS.
&SFSY-PAGE&
Inserts the number of the current print page into the text. You determine the format of the page number (for example, Arabic, numeric) in the page node.
&SFSY-FORMPAGES&
Displays the total number of pages for the currently processed form. This allows you to include texts such as'Page x of y' into your output.
&SFSY-JOBPAGES&
Contains the total page number of all forms in the currently processed print request.
&SFSY-WINDOWNAME&
Contains the name of the current window (string in the Window field)
&SFSY-PAGENAME&
Contains the name of the current page (string in the Page field)
&SFSY-PAGEBREAK&
Is set to 'X' after a page break (either automatic [Page 7] or command-controlled [Page 46])
&SFSY-MAINEND&
Is set as soon as processing of the main window on the current page ends
&SFSY-EXCEPTION&
Contains the name of the raised exception. You must trigger your own exceptions, which you defined in the form interface, using the user_exception macro (syntax: user_exception ).
Additional Fonts for your SMARTFORMS
You can create additional fonts and style with transaction SMARTSTYLES
This can then be define in the paragraph and character formats, which you can then be assign to texts and fields in the Smart Form.
The character formats includes effects such as superscript, subscript, barcode and font attributes

• SAP SMART FORMS Complete
• SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION
• SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction
• Creating Smart Forms
• SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE

SAP SMART FORMS Complete

Smart forms is very similar to SAP scripts . This is also a tool which is extensively used to creat layouts and then a separate print program is created.



This print program is used to create the output internal table which in turn is thrown to the smart form where the field values are displayed .

SAP Smart Forms allows you to reduce considerably the implementation costs of mySAP.com solutions since forms can be adjusted in minimum time.

You design a form using the graphical Form Painter and the graphical Table Painter. The form logic is represented by a hierarchy structure (tree structure) that consists of individual nodes, such as nodes for global settings, nodes for texts, nodes for output tables, or nodes for graphics.

Here is the list of all related sap smart forms content placed for reference sake.

• SAP SMART FORMS Complete
• SAP SMART FORMS A BRIEF DISCUSSION
• SAP ABAP SMART FORMS Introduction
• Creating Smart Forms
• SAP SMART FORMS PART THREE