Business workflow offline forms

Hi!
My question is: Is there any posibility to start a process in the R/3 Business Workflow with Offline Forms like in Guided Procedures with Interactive Forms sent by E-Mail. I know it's possible to start a process or work on a workitem with web-forms, but therefor you still have to be "online" to proceed. The advantage of Guided Procedures with InteractiveForms is, that the procesor does not have to be connected to the net or the system to execute the workitem - he works on it and the result is sent by E-mail when he is "online" again. So the question is, if this is possible with Business Workflow, too.

That would work. This is why we added support to PDFs in FormsCentral, so that you can fill out the form while offline, save the form so you dont have to fill it out in one setting and submit when you have Internet connection. You can definitely save the PDF on the device and submit once connected again later.
The problem your client will encounter is that they will need to save the each PDF on the device and start with a new PDF for each filler.
The workflow would look like this
- Have the PDF in Acrobat Mobile on your device (empty form)
- When someone is ready to fill the form make a copy/duplicate of the empty form in Acrobat Mobile and save it under a different name
- Fill out the copy and save the PDF
- Reapet for each filler
At the end of the day, once you have wifi, open each PDF and submit them individually.
Hope this helps
Gen

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