Offline approval with Adobe forms

Question

Hi All,
We have a case in which we need to send a Adobe interactive form as an attachment to approver's email address(outlook) and perform offline approval.
Could you pls help me guiding how to achieve this?
System is mySAP ECC 6.0.
(I have heard that offline approval is available in SRM, but do not know about ECC6.0)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Akshay,
SRM uses a program to simulate an offline approval.  It's not form based.
Adobe forms are better.
But at the end of the day any form is just a UI to enter and display data.  It's up to the programmer to decide what happens after the form is uploaded.
There are tutorials on SDN in the Adobe section on how to upload the forms.  In the logic behind the upload you need to code in what happens next anyway - i.e. where the form data is to be stored in the system, whether a workflow event should be raised or whatever. 
In ECC 6.0 you might want to try using the ISR/PCR technique with Adobe.  Where at least the WebDynpro application for viewing the forms are already created, and you put your logic for raising the workflow event in the QISR BADI. 
You will probably still need to create a WebDynpro app to allow either mail upload or email receipt of Adobe forms.  Both of which are described in the SDN tutorials.
By the way there is a Interactive forms with Adobe forum on SDN where you can put questions if you have any troubles with using the forms or developing a WebDynpro application around it.... but of course please work your way through tht tutorials first.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Jocelyn