Photo from Pa30 into Adobe Forms.

Question

Hello,
We have uploaded the photos of Employees in HR server.
Now in the Adobe Forms, we needs to fetch these photo's and display.
Is it possibe?
I know that through webdynpro , we can pass the photo as Xstring and display in Adobe form.
We want in the Adobe form directly call the photo which is stored in Pa30 & display without using the intermeidate webdynpro.
How this can be acheived?
Regards,
Dadarao.

Answer 1

Hello,
WD does not have any important role in passing a photo to Adobe form. I guess you want to print some "personal card" type form, right? I have developed many of these. A good source of information is How Tou2026 Integrate ADOBE form on WebdynPro for ABAP and Deploy it on portal by Bhawanidutt Dabral. Not because of the WD part, but because the way how to send the photo into the form is described here. Just in case you have any difficulties in finding it, I can copy the important part for you here:))
Currently we will Hard Code the fields Vorna and Nachn and will use the standard method to get the photographs form SE78 (Form Graphics). Add this piece of code
  CONSTANTS:    c_graphics    TYPE   tdobjectgr  VALUE 'GRAPHICS',
                c_bmap        TYPE   tdidgr      VALUE 'BMAP' ,
                c_bcol        TYPE   tdbtype     VALUE 'BCOL'.
Get the Photographs.
  lv_pernr1 = '00000028'. " Employee Number
  CALL METHOD cl_ssf_xsf_utilities=>get_bds_graphic_as_bmp
    EXPORTING
      p_object       = c_graphics
      p_name         = lv_pernr1
      p_id           = c_bmap
      p_btype        = c_bcol
    RECEIVING
      p_bmp          = ls_z_if_test_cv-im_photo
    EXCEPTIONS
      not_found      = 1
      internal_error = 2
      OTHERS         = 3.
You need to use the XSTRING type variable in your form interface/ context and use Image field component (not only Image!!) in your Adobe form. If you don´t like this solution (which is simple and really nice) you can work with the URLs of the pictures and pass these URLs into the form, but that would be troublesome because there is a problem to include the picture into the form, how to get the pictures URL etc.
I hope this solves your problem, Otto