Optimising performance of interactive forms

Hi,
I am about to embark on a project to transfer all the external forms that my company uses to Adobe Interactive Forms for SAP.
Some trial work has already been undertaken which has included (attempting) to build forms in excess of 15 pages. Unfortunately, forms of this size have proved to be very slow in rendering... even on in internal machines. What this would mean for our customers is of a paritcular concern to me.
As part of my project approach, I am determined to ensure that these forms are built with optimisation in mind and significant compromises regarding form length of interactive complexity do not have to be undertaken.
I have found some information on the web ([http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/designer_performance_1_0.pdf]), but was wondering what other opions are out there?
Would building the form using XML-code, rather than through LiveCycle's front-end designer provide greater performance control?
Any help or insights would be most welcome.
Thanks,
Rob.

One blog which you might find useful.
/people/raghavendra.prabhu/blog/2010/10/21/performance-improvement-in-hcm-pf
Thanks,
Aravind

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Hi Experts,
Please advice.
We migrated our interactive forms to ZCI layout and they work fine.
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Case 1 ) In upload of an offline form, on 'ShowForm' action, the form opens, but when the 'SAVE' button ( placed in the webdynpro and not on the adobe form) is pressed, the browser shows the processing icon, but nothing happens at the server side. The corresponding action method is not called.
If the size of the form is small, then it executes successfully.
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Initial exception -- java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
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Hi Mona...
Refer to the following SAP Note 867502 . In addition you can also check out this blog:
/people/r.eijpe/blog/2007/01/08/performing-sap-interactive-forms-by-adobe
Hope this helps.
PS. Reward points for helpful answers.

Heavy performance issues using Adobe Interactive Form PDFs generated by SAP BPM

Dear experts,
we use Adobe Interactive Form PDFs (generated with LiveCycle Designer) as Human Tasks within SAP BPM processes. The PDFs are generated and transmitted correctly, but when they are opened at the receivers PC, Windows freezes for 2-3 minutes, then the PDF opens and can be filled out and sent back. The next PDFs can be opened much faster, but when the PC is restarted, we get the same problem again. We use Adobe Reader XI (11.0.2) on our clients; is their any know performance issue?
Please note, that we have this problem with EVERY Adobe Interactive Form PDF... I created a simple PDF containing just a field and the client PC still freezes. So it can't be in the form or the scripting. Normal static PDFs can be opend without any problems.
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David

They haven't really announced it, because there is no product to announce. Rather the opposite.
There are no conversion tools, so far as I know.
XFA forms are a non-starter if you want portability.
AcroForms are a nightmare in themselves, because the functionality is limited in Adobe Reader and varies between absent and weird in other products. No idea about Blackberry support.
You will not find a simple recommendation. Rather, you need to use Acroforms and carefully test everything (EVERYTHING: no assumptions) on every platform you intend to support.
Yes, rather unsatisfactory, but until Adobe realise that the future is platform equivalence or irrelevance, this is where we are.

Interactive form takes 10-15 minutes to open and exhausts system resources.

The version of Livecycle designer am using is 7.1
The interactive form that I designed is taking like 10-15 minutes to open and while its opening, its taking all the system resources as I see a prompt on the task bar besides time/date "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low".
The tutorial project works fine, the TravelRequest.pdf opens just fine: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/user-interface-technology/wd%20java/wdjava%20archive/offline%20interactive%20pdf%20form%20using%20download.pdf
Would installing version 8.0 solve this ?
I am on NWDS sp18.
Thanks
Tony

Hi,
Refer to the following blogs which explains the steps to improve the performance.
Offline Part u2013 I /people/sankar.narayana/blog/2008/12/23/dynamic-generation-of-offline-adobe-interactive-forms-for-sap-46c-and-ep-70-without-user-intervention-part-150-i
Offline Part u2013 II /people/sankar.narayana/blog/2008/12/30/dynamic-generation-of-offline-adobe-interactive-forms-for-sap-46c-and-ep-70-without-user-interventionpart-ii
Adobe Performance : /people/ramesh.kotagiri/blog/2008/12/30/sap146s-magic-solution-to-obtain-amazing-performance-of-dynamic-adobe-interactive-forms-using-zci-forms-zero-client-installation
Installing the Adobe 8.0 also improves the performance.
Thanks & Regards,
Jhansi Miryala

ADOBE Interactive Form not getting displayed in Browse

Hi,
Currently I am working on EhP4 project on ECC 6.0 environment. For HCM, We have interactive ADOBE forms for MSS. While testing we found that all buttons are displayed in a browser (we are are window 7 IE 8 ) but interactive form is not getting displayed in the browser (Fill out Form as part of MSS). It only displays a line
Checked ADS configuration as per oss note and works ok. Did HTTPWATCH - browser is getting (GET) the Adobe forms with values but not displaying it. If I copy URL from HTTPWATCH GET line in a separate browser window it displays the form.
Thanks in advance your help.
Regards
Jitendra Pongurlekar

Hey Chris (and others),
We were having this same problem, and this Note fixed the issue (thanks!). However, we are still experiencing another issue with HCM Processes and Forms under EhP4. Before this Note, it took about ten minutes before "single line display" would show up. Now after the Note, we get the full form, but it still takes ten solid minutes of waiting before it appears in the window. We're pretty sure it's not a Portal issue, nor an ADS issue, but something with the web dynpros on the ABAP side. However, we have not yet been able to resolve it. Anyone else run into this performance problem with HCMP&F after upgrading to EhP4? We don't have the problem with EhP3.
Best regards,
Matt

How do I display my pdf output on interactive form?

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TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_buffer,
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TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_string,
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DATA lt_string TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_string.
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DATA lw_string TYPE ty_string.
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Hi Siong,
If you are using web dynpro than whatever the values presents in the context will be displayed in the Form.
in case of web dynpro you need to to perform any parsing or transformation.
Just make sure than you are properly mapping the web dynpro context and Pdf context.
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Thanks & Regards,
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Hi All,
We are currently on Netweaver 7.0 & ECC 6.0 and ESS - MSS Business Package 50.4. We are using JSP Forms on portal front for Personnel Change Requests (PCR's ) where in all the scenarios in the backend are heavily customized with good amount of usage of Javascripts. For certain scenarios, where in a huge amount of information is fetched from ECC 6.0 backend system, JSP are performing really bad and the total time taken to display the form is actually causing a lot of irritation to the end user.
We are planning to propose an upgrade to SAP adobe interactive forms. The prerequisite is that the business wants to reuse all the customized scenarios without any changes and just want to move towards better front end forms.
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1. Please list benefits of SAP Adobe interactive forms - ABAP component over JSP forms (performance wise)
2. Issues with SAP Adobe Interactive forms?
3. Since Javascripts do not work in Webdynpro ABAP. How can we implement those front end checks and validations.
3. Any other options available for UI that can be suggested?
All suggestions are welcome. Quick response is appreciated.
Thanks a lot for your time and help.
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I have also worked created WDA custom application for PCR's , WDA is definitely better when you compare it with WDJ but I have not seen much performance issue with WDJ atleast on custom PCR solutions.
I don't have any case study to share with you, can you please tell what kind of PCR's your client is using and what kind of performance issue you are experiencing and where and why you guys are using Javascript.

Error while running adobe interactive form

Hi,
I made a scenario to update a z table using adobe interactive form in webdynpro.While executing I am getting the error as :
Termination type was : RABAX_STATE
Can anyone please guide me as to what can be the reason behind this error.
Thanks in advance !!

Hi
I suggest that you first review your configuration using this tutorial which short and to the point:
[ADS configuration|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f03414f8-d4ce-2a10-d4b6-ab201b329d98]
After that perform the tests that were suggested in the posts above (link to the relevant tests [ADS tests|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/43/f31e3082221595e10000000a1553f7/content.htm]
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Adi J.

Interactive forms will not email out

I have the Acrobat 8 pro program and cannot email out interactive forms that I have created in Live Cycle Designer. They always hang up in the email program and I get an error message indicating that the connection with my server was "unexpectedly terminated". I work at home and have a DSL connection. I have tried increasing the server timeout and it has not helped. I have also experienced a number of other issues I have seen posted on the Acrobat Reader forums, such as memory leak, max. CPU usage,etc. since acquiring the Acrobat 8 Pro program, first by downloading the free trial, then purchasing and registering my software disk. Is there a fix for the email issue? I need to be able to send these forms out- I am attempting to send them out to one recipient at a time, not distribute them "en-masse". Any help appreciated.

What is issuing the timeout message, Acrobat or the mail program? The email program and Norton Internet Security program
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What is the e-mail program?Outlook exprress
With reference to your comment
"By the way, e-mail CANNOT be guaranteed to work for all recipients, it is not suitable for professional use,"
I am using the Acrobat 8 PROFESSIONAL program which has the "Submit via Email" option. The program "read me" states that this function in the program is specifically designed for the distribution and collection of data. According to the way the program is advertised and information contained in the program itself, it does not indicate that I am attempting to utilize the program to perform tasks that it is not designed to do. All Adobe information on this program is printed with reference to the program being utilized in a workplace/professional environment.

Problem with interactive forms using ABAP

Hi all,
 I am trying to create an interactive adobe form using ABAP in ECC 6.0. But while execute the form, it is creating an error saying that
Exception SYSTEM_ERROR
Message ID: FPRUNX Message number: 001
Message:
ADS: The render error log file has been written to D:\u(200101)
But i was able to create adobe interactive form using WebDynpro and its working perfectly. But the problem is while using ABAP method.
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Thanks and Regards,
Raja Sekhar

Hi
Interactive Forms based on Adobe software is SAP's new solution for forms development. Its first release has the focus on interactive use of forms. High-volume printing is supported in principle, but - being a new solution - the performance has not yet reached the same level as Smart Forms or SAPscript, two established solutions that had years to grow. Interactive Forms is the only solution that will continue to be enhanced with new features, while SAPscript and Smart Forms will be supported without limitations.
When (or if) to move to Interactive Forms depends on your requirements. For interactive forms usage, i.e. the new functions, you have no choice, as the existing solutions don't support it. High-volume print scenarios need to be carefully analyzed to see whether your concrete requirements can be met at this point.
However, it is possible to move to Smart Forms and design your forms in such a way that a migration at any point in the future would be but a small step. Smart Forms offers from Web AS 6.40 a migration wizard to Interactive Forms. Technically, everything can be migrated, but we recommend against things like ABAP program nodes, for example.
You are not forced to ever go to Interactive Forms if you don't want to. It really depends on whether your client needs any of the new features in Interactive Forms. Also, if they are currently working with JetForms, they could enquire with Adobe directly what migration path they offer to the joint solution.
It is impossible to make a blanket statement on what needs to be done in each of the applications using a form for output. Despite the same underlying technology, forms handling has always been a decision for each SAP application: Some do it through customizing, some through coding, some in yet anither way.
What I CAN say from a technology pespective is that all applications are in the process of creating their forms based on Interactive Forms so that by 2007 pretty much all SAP forms will be PDF-based. Obviously, each application does it within the framework of their application - but they all use Interactive Forms.
By the way, be aware that in ERP 2004 this forms solution is subject to a limitation for high-volume printing scenarios as we cannot ensure that ALL customers will be content with the performance in ALL scenarios with this release. (see SAP Note 863893).
To get an overview idea about Adobe forms ,
Using SFP , first you need to create a interface . in interface you can declare the import and export parameters and also the declaration part, coding etc : This is nothing but similar to Function module interface.
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Create the context and layout in the form.
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Now we need to integrate the driver program and the PDF form to get the final output as per the requirement.
On activating and executing the form you will get a function module name just similar to smartforms.
The driver program needs to call this FM.
Refer to the below sample code :
DATA : is_customer TYPE scustom.
DATA : it_bookings TYPE ty_bookings.
DATA : iv_image_url TYPE string.
DATA : iv_sending_country TYPE adrc-country.
DATA : it_sums TYPE TABLE OF flprice_t.
DATA : docparams TYPE sfpdocparams.
DATA : formoutput TYPE fpformoutput.
DATA : outputparams TYPE sfpoutputparams.
PARAMETERS : pa_cusid TYPE scustom-id.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM scustom INTO is_customer
WHERE id = pa_cusid.
SELECT * FROM sbook
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE it_bookings
WHERE customid = pa_cusid.
outputparams-nodialog = 'X'.
outputparams-getpdf = 'X'.
*outputparams-adstrlevel = '02'.
CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_OPEN'
CHANGING
ie_outputparams = outputparams
EXCEPTIONS
cancel = 1
usage_error = 2
system_error = 3
internal_error = 4
OTHERS = 5.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
ENDIF.
docparams-langu = 'E'.
docparams-country = 'US'.
docparams-fillable = 'X'.
CALL FUNCTION '/1BCDWB/SM00000043'
EXPORTING
/1bcdwb/docparams = docparams
is_customer = is_customer
it_bookings = it_bookings
IV_IMAGE_URL =
iv_sending_country = 'US'
IT_SUMS =
IMPORTING
/1bcdwb/formoutput = formoutput
EXCEPTIONS
usage_error = 1
system_error = 2
internal_error = 3
OTHERS = 4
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
ENDIF.
CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_CLOSE'
IMPORTING
E_RESULT =
EXCEPTIONS
usage_error = 1
system_error = 2
internal_error = 3
OTHERS = 4
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms-elearning
/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2005/07/13/lessons-learned-from-adobe-forms-development
/people/community.user/blog/2006/11/20/search-help-in-isr-adobe-forms
/people/franklin.herbas/blog/2005/12/13/2d-barcode-pdf-forms-with-sap-netweaver
/people/vani.krishnamoorthy/blog/2006/05/17/fillable-adobe-forms-using-abap
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/849b3482206353e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/82538c0c4458bbe10000000a422035/frameset.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/6d/bd2d828aa04eeb9451aad0d02ae9a0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/dd/60694fddb74ad88cdb7d2a094f3dd2/frameset.htm
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/people/vani.krishnamoorthy/blog/2006/05/17/fillable-adobe-forms-using-abap
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http://www.sap.com/company/press/press.epx?pressID=2785
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/partners/sap.html
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/partners/pdfs/sap_datasheet.pdf
look at the Adobe page here in SDN:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=AdobeForms.htm
Check these links on Adobe forms
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1e/05853ff8ec2c17e10000000a114084/content.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms
http://www.sap.com/solutions/solutionextensions/pdf/BWP_Interactive_Forms_Adobe.pdf
It contains lots of useful information, documentation, and e-learning materials teaching you the basics.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/b7/64348655fb46149098d95bdca103d0/frameset.htm
Use the Tcode : SFP
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=AdobeForms.htm
Check these links on Adobe forms
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1e/05853ff8ec2c17e10000000a114084/content.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms
http://www.sap.com/solutions/solutionextensions/pdf/BWP_Interactive_Forms_Adobe.pdf
It contains lots of useful information, documentation, and e-learning materials teaching you the basics.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/b7/64348655fb46149098d95bdca103d0/frameset.htm
Very useful
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/00f4f594-7306-2a10-8483-b45bec157093 [original link is broken]
for PDF forms
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c8/4adf7ba13c4ac1b4600d4df15f8b84/content.htm
See the links for debugging
Refer to this thread
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/c6/617ca9e68c11d2b2ab080009b43351/content.htm
Debugging
Check these documents.
http://www.cba.nau.edu/haney-j/CIS497/Assignments/Debugging.doc
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5a/4ed93f130f9215e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/c6/617ca9e68c11d2b2ab080009b43351/content.htm
http://www.cba.nau.edu/haney-j/CIS497/Assignments/Debugging.doc
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/b3/d322540c3beb4ba53795784eebb680/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/84/1f624f4505144199e3d570cf7a9225/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw30b/helpdata/en/c6/617ca9e68c11d2b2ab080009b43351/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/b3/d322540c3beb4ba53795784eebb680/frameset.htm
ABAP Debugging
http://www.saplinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=34
Look at the SAP help link below
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/c6/617ca9e68c11d2b2ab080009b43351/content.htm
For online PDF form creation...........
https://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl?BP=IE&LOC=en_US
for Other information use these Links
C:Documents and Settingsvuser01DesktopSANKET SPersonalVikalpsap netweaver ABAP and adobe Formspdf form webpdf based print forms.htm
C:Documents and Settingsvuser01DesktopSANKET SPersonalVikalpsap netweaver ABAP and adobe Formspdf form webSAP Interactive Forms by Adobe.htm
http://searchsap.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid21_gci1079310,00.html?Offer=SAPwn927nw
http://www.thespot4sap.com/articles/SAP_Netweaver_Introduction.asp
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_webas630/helpdata/en/cb/f4bc3d42f46c33e10000000a11405a/content.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c7cbe08d-0c01-0010-8bac-b9ce7348246c?source=gawindev09&kw=sap+netweaver&adgroup=brand_netweaver
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/downloaditem?rid=/library/uuid/cfc19866-0401-0010-35b2-dc8158247fb6
https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/011000358700004952682004E
/people/venkata.ramisetti/blog/2006/09/21/configuring-output-types-for-pdf-based-print-forms
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/96/6ee0d5b39640d68fc0078fc575114a/frameset.htm
D:adobe livecycle designerAdobe_Designer_71BeforeInstall.htm
http://sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms
very imp ADS configuration guide
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/95/5a08cd0e274a0bae559622d6670722/frameset.htm
Could anyone provide the complete manual of SAP Query Creation
Tcode is : SFP
chk these links:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d4fe7fca-0b01-0010-569a-9a9c1ddf4132
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/docs?rid=/webcontent/uuid/7c3bc67e-0c01-0010-dbb3-908315896909 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/docs?rid=/webcontent/uuid/7c3bc67e-0c01-0010-dbb3-908315896909 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
/people/vani.krishnamoorthy/blog/2006/05/17/fillable-adobe-forms-using-abap
see these links..
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms-elearning
/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2005/07/13/lessons-learned-from-adobe-forms-development
/people/community.user/blog/2006/11/20/search-help-in-isr-adobe-forms
/people/franklin.herbas/blog/2005/12/13/2d-barcode-pdf-forms-with-sap-netweaver
/people/vani.krishnamoorthy/blog/2006/05/17/fillable-adobe-forms-using-abap
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/849b3482206353e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/82538c0c4458bbe10000000a422035/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/46/55c841d202c317e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/6d/bd2d828aa04eeb9451aad0d02ae9a0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/dd/60694fddb74ad88cdb7d2a094f3dd2/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d4fe7fca-0b01-0010-569a-9a9c1ddf4132
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/docs?rid=/webcontent/uuid/7c3bc67e-0c01-0010-dbb3-908315896909 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/docs?rid=/webcontent/uuid/7c3bc67e-0c01-0010-dbb3-908315896909 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
/people/vani.krishnamoorthy/blog/2006/05/17/fillable-adobe-forms-using-abap
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms
http://www.sap.com/company/press/press.epx?pressID=2785
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/partners/sap.html
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/partners/pdfs/sap_datasheet.pdf

How to increase performance of adobe forms of MSS Business package

Hi
We have implemented MSS business package with PCR adobe forms.
Portal NW04 SP18, ERP 2004 , ADS is Nw04sp16 and abode reader 7.0.7.
we have develped own PCR using existing ISR frame work.
every thing working fine.but user facing performance problem like some times while opening pcr form ,browser gets hang up.
Is there any way to increase performance of adobe forms of PCR.
thanks In advance
Gopal

Hi!
Interactive Forms need a lot of performance on the client side. If the client hangy up I think this is realted to client issues.
Also I would update the forms server to be the same version as the other NW components (Portal).
Sigi

Date Format Issue with Interactive Form

Hi, here is the scenario:
-We just upgraded to SP17 from SP15
-I'm using Livecycle Designer 8.0
When we were on SP15, this was not an issue. I was wondering if anyone encountered this problem and if so, if there is a workaround?
I create an interactive form to start a guided procedure process. Im passing the data from my desktop Interactive form to another callable object in GP to send an email with the PDF attached. This all works correclty.
My date/time fields are set to type DATE with a display pattern of YYYY-MM-DD. When I create the form in the GP administrator to my desktop and open the PDF, the date format is correct. However, when I submit the form to start the process, the incomming date fields to be mapped to my second Callable Object have change in format from "2009-02-18" to "Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2009".
This is true in the new form I receive via email, and also in NWA->monitoring->guided procedures when I check the instances. The input mapping is already set to the false formatting.
When I open the form from the second callable object with the incorrect date format (in designer), the date's display patterns are set to YYYY-MM-DD but are not being displayed as such.
New discovery....I tried to create a Business Logic callable object and format the date. I created a string input and date output and mapped them accordingly. When I perform a "TEST" from the design time and use the input "Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2009", the string is automatically converted to 18/02/2009 in the output, which is what I want to occur. The only problem is when I run the actual process, the same "Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2009" is being output instead of the 18/02/2009 in the TEST.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Edited by: Warren Clements on Feb 26, 2009 2:20 AM

This test program might help...
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class ExpandYear
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException
     SimpleDateFormat sdf_2dyear = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
     SimpleDateFormat sdf_4dyear = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
     String test1 = "3/21/00";
     System.out.println("test1: " + test1 + " to : " +
                  sdf_4dyear.format(sdf_2dyear.parse(test1)));
     String test2 = "4/9/99";
     System.out.println("test2: " + test2 + " to : " +
                  sdf_4dyear.format(sdf_2dyear.parse(test2)));

Use of pdfSource in Interactive Forms in webdynpro

hi,
please let me know the use of "pdfSource" property while designing the Interactive form in webdynpro. i tried with and without creating the pdfSource property in my application and still there were no errors while deploying it.
Thanks
Regards
Poojith M V

Hello Poojith M V,
Let me answer your query in a little bit more details. The statement first: An interactive form can be rendered with or without a pdfSource attribute.
But there are significant differences in the way they work and the application is designed. When you have the pdfSource bound to a context attribute of type binary, you do a PDF interchange between the browser and the server. The whole point is that you will always have the latest PDF document (binary) available in that context attribute on the server and you can make use of this binary PDF to do anything your apllication requires (saving it onto the file system, storing it into the database, performing some other operations on the server, email it etc etc etc).
Now, the other side of it, when you do not have the pdfSource bound to a context attribute, only XML exchange happens in between the browser and the server. Well, that means you only have the latest XML data available on the server at any point in time and since you have not bound the pdfSource, you do not have the binary PDF available to you through the context. There are ways you can get it but not through the context and not the latest one. It would still contain the initial data it had in the first request response cycle as you have not updated the PDF after that.
Now, the question is, which one to use ? It completly depends on your application requirements. There are certain functionalities which are not possible without having the latest PDF binary in hand. For example, you want to apply a digital signature on the document, you want to add an attachment on the document etc. But, then in most of the scenarios, the application would just need to exchange data between the client and the server (and vice versa) and do not worry about the binary PDF. That is the ideal case when you need not bind the pdfSource. It will be faster as well.
Hope that clarifies your doubt to certain extent. Go ahead and start with you interactive form application.
Best Regards,
Krish

Adobe interactive forms in Webdynpro

I installed Adobe LiveCycle Designer.
When I edit the interactive form from NWDS, it says "could not find the required product, Install adobe Live cycle designer"
Do we have to perform some additional settings after the installation.

Hi,
ALD 8.1 is still not supported completely.
Install ALD 7.1 for NWDS 7.0.9.
Check the below 2 SAP notes for minimum system requirements and installation procedure
1121176 - Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.0 - Installation
962763 - Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 Installation
Regards
Srikanth KV

Drop-down liast in Adobe interactive forms

Hello,
We have 3 regions, US, Europe and Asia Pacific and each region has a manager.
Now, am developing a Interactive form with Webdynpro for ABAP (pls. note always FORM is only one) for these regions/managers. Manager pressess submit button for approval.
I have 19 drop-down (Enumerated drop-down with SELECT) fields in this form.
Regardsing the field 'DROP_DOWN_1' :
US manger should get 7 values in the drop-down list with a 'US_DROPDOWN' default, if manager donw want to keep this value, he can change/over ride and submits the form.
Europe manger should get 5 values in the drop-down list with a 'EUROPE_DROPDOWN' default, if manager donw want to keep this value, he can change/over ride and submits the form.
Asia Pcific manger should get 11 values in the drop-down list with a 'ASIA_PACIFIC_DROPDOWN' default, if manager donw want to keep this value, he can change/over ride and submits the form.
Pls. let me know
1) Is DYNAMIC drop-downs possible?
2) If so, where should i mainatin the code, is it in FORM level scrpting? webdynpro abap code?
3) If FORM level script, webdynpro has to pass these drop-down values to FORM via CONTEXT, is it right?
4) Any settings for this dynamic functionality either FORM setinsg to webdynpro settings?
Thank you,

Hi,
There are two options to do that, first by web service which suits best the offline scenario and another by server round trip which is possible in online scenario only.
For web service scenario you have to create data binding in the form with web service data node, (search SDN for suitable document explaining the scenario with web service for more info). Every time the user will choose value from DD the web service will trigger to fetch data based on user input.
Second scenario uses server round trip. In this method you have to call the submit method in web dynpro view with some conditions that it is called through DD to fetch values. Use some flag variable to differentiate between the final submit and DD value help submit.
There is one more option but the performance of the form will get affected based on the data used for the DDs.
In that method you have to maintain the data for each US, Europe, Asia in a table. Based on user input fetch value from that table in the specific dropdown using script on the form.
Regards,
Vaibhav

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