Guided Procedure - Authorizing an offline form

Question

Hello,
we're currently developing a Guided Procedure using an interactive offline form. The GP shall continue the process when the form is submitted back using HTTP.
Actually, we need to have authorization to make sure that only certain persons can return the data.
What's the best way to archieve this?
The best would be if the user is asked to provide uid/pwd and restrict access to the GP process in some way. Does Acrobat Reader come up with a pop up?
Thanks very much
Stefan

Answer 1

Hi Cindy,
Your scenario seems to be a standard offline process.
Let me attempt to break it down for you:
1.Your offline pdf should have a submit button with the mail url.
2.The mail with the pdf/xdp attachement gets send to the preconfigured mailbox.
3.This mailbox is continously monitored by GP Adapters for any incoming mail.
4.In your design time you create a CO of type Interactive form which is basically your offline form.You also create your GP Process with the review and approving process.
5.Map the parameters of the Offline Interactive form CO to the Process Parameters.
(You should ensure the two have the same structure and number of parameters to make the mapping simpler)
6.So at runtime GP will do the mapping for you and when the approver logs on he sees the data passed from the offline form.
You can also refer this link,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/cc/4a94422386c76ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/cc/4a94422386c76ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
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