In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple SmartForms to display PO list data, click here to download the SmartForms tutorial. click here to learn more about SmartForms.
In SmartForms we use Microsoft Word text editor as the text editor, and it’s not just in SmartForms, because MS Word text editor can also be used in SAPscript forms.
Here’s how you do it.
1. Execute TCODE I18N. Expand the I18N Customizing folder and double click on the “MS Word as Editor”.
In this tutorial I want to teach you how to set page orientation (Portrait/Landscape) in SmartForms.
1. First open up your SmartForms.
2. Double Click The %Page1 New Page section, click on the “Output Options” tab, there you will find the print attributes section to set the page orientation.
Note: Changing the “Page Format” in the “Form [...]
Today let’s learn how to create a secondary window in SmartForms. In SmartForms you can have many secondary windows, we usually use these windows to put some texts for signatures or other required information.
1. Create a new SmartForms using TCODE SMARTFORMS.
2. Right click the PAGE1 New Page -> Create -> Window
Today I want to teach you how to add logo or graphic into your SmartForms, in SAP we have a place to store all the images that we want to use in the form application, it’s called the Administration of Form Graphics.
Before you can add logo/graphic into your Smartforms, first you need to upload the [...]
Today I want to teach you how to create a structure in SmartForms and use it to populate data table in the SmartForms. Using structure we can easily define what columns we need to use.
To create the structure type, open your SmartForms report.
Go to Global Definitions > Types
If you want to create a running numbers on SmartForms to display line items such as 1,2,3,4,5 etc. You can utilize the program lines on the above the text elements of your SmartForms.
This program lines, will do the incremental calculation and pass the value into a global variable, and then we will use this global [...]
There are 2 ways to populate data in your Smartforms, the first method is by using Query from your program in SE38 and pass it into the internal table, after that you use that internal table as the data source for your SmartForms, learn more about this method in this Smartforms tutorial.
The second way to [...]
In this tutorial you will learn how to put an Euro sign in your SmartForms, it’s very simple.
I’ve tried several ways to do this, the first one is to copy the Euro symbol from a document editor such as MS Office or OpenOffice Writer and copy the Euro symbol on the SMARTFORMS, but when I [...]
To draw tables boxes in SmartForms is quite simple, after you create the SMARTFORMS, just click the table on the main window, and click on the SELECT PATTERN.
This will bring you a template window, you can choose display framed patterns or display unframed patterns by clicking the button.
You can choose and experiment which frame pattern [...]