Performance of SMARTFORMS vs SAPSCRIPT
Hello all,
have you already experienced performance issue using SMARTFORMS.
At the moment, all our layout are done with SAPSCRIPT and we want now to user SMARTFORM.
Any advice ? remarks ?
Laurent HENRY
Hello
Navigate to http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN
Enter seach term 'Using SAP Smart Forms'
Here you can view a comprehensive contents list with information regarding Smart Form usage-
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Regards.
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Jun 24, 2010 3:58 PM
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