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Question

Helo,
we are looking at desgining a process where a vendor would enter data on our portal and we would review this data and create the vendor master record using this data. we were going to use a module pool program to design a screen or the portal.
we have heard of a process where instead of using a module pool program, we could use a adobe form to enter the data and we could read the data using a smartform to update the custom table. I would like to get some documentation on this but I am not sure what kind of search criteria to use to search the SDN.

Answer 1

hi, you have to decide:
Online access (Web Dynpro in the portal)
web dynpro context can be bound to the PDF Context, submit button triggers http roundtrip and actualizes your web dynpro context and the you can save your data
Offline Access (PDF outside SAP, back per mail/Web Services)
per mail you have to deserialize your data (get your pdf --> ads transforms into an xml stream --> xml to abap per simple transformations or xslt or you use classes)
webservices you can create on your own in sap and bind the pdf fields against parameters of your interface
Updating vendor master data is always the same