BSP Performance Appraisal Form PDF Generation

Question

Hi all,
             I need to find out how the standard SAP Performance Appraisal template generates the PDF format of this BSP page. Does anyone have any idea how and where this generation of this PDF file is done?

Answer 1

Hi Geva,
please remember that I am by no means certain that this is how the Performance Appraisal form you mention works. This is just an example of how I have dome this in the past.
Think of BSP as a delivery mechanism for SmartForm output. SmartForm output can be in different formats including HTML and PDF.
Once you have executed the SmartForm and have the output in the correct format you then just need to populate the HTTP response object. Something like this example for PDF.
* Conversion of output format OTF into PDF format
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_OTF'
     EXPORTING
          format = 'PDF'
     IMPORTING
          bin_filesize = l_pdf_len
          bin_file = l_pdf_xstring " binary file
     TABLES
          otf = ls_output_data-otfdata
          lines = lt_lines
     EXCEPTIONS
          err_max_linewidth = 1
          err_format = 2
          err_conv_not_possible = 3
          err_bad_otf = 4
          OTHERS = 5.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
* error handling
ENDIF.
* Fill HTTP response
response->set_header_field( name = 'content-type' value = 'application/pdf' ).
* some Browsers have caching problems when loading PDF format
response->set_header_field( name = 'cache-control' value = 'max-age=0' ).
* display PDF format in Browser
l_pdf_len = XSTRLEN( l_pdf_xstring ).
response->set_data( data = l_pdf_xstring length = l_pdf_len ).
navigation->response_complete( ).
Cheers
Graham