Print for range of customers at a time in smartforms

hai all..
how can we get thr prints for range of customers in a smartforms.
here iam giving range of customers kunnr-low and kunnr-high.
i want the output should be prints form kunnr-low to kunnr-high.
here iam wriing the bdc fro this smartofrms to print customers.
is there any option option to print the range of customers form smartofroms at a time ...
tanx in advance.

Just write the below code to print multiple customers
Loop at itab.(internal table containing the range of custiomers)
call function (function to call the smartform)
endloop.
Regards
Lalit

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DATA:it_nfal      TYPE nfal OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA:fm_name      TYPE rs38l_fnam.
DATA:ssfctrlop    TYPE ssfctrlop.
DATA:ssfcompop    TYPE ssfcompop.
DATA:it_otf_data TYPE ssfcrescl.
DATA:it_otf_final TYPE itcoo OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA:bin_filesize TYPE i.
DATA:it_pdfdata   TYPE TABLE OF tline.
DATA:it_pdf       TYPE TABLE OF solisti1.
" Mail related declarations
"Variables
DATA :
     g_sent_to_all   TYPE sonv-flag,
     g_tab_lines     TYPE i.
"Types
TYPES:
     t_document_data TYPE sodocchgi1,
     t_packing_list   TYPE sopcklsti1,
     t_attachment     TYPE solisti1,
     t_body_msg       TYPE solisti1,
     t_receivers      TYPE somlreci1,
     t_pdf            TYPE tline.
"Workareas
DATA :
     w_document_data TYPE t_document_data,
     w_packing_list   TYPE t_packing_list,
     w_attachment     TYPE t_attachment,
     w_body_msg       TYPE t_body_msg,
     w_receivers      TYPE t_receivers,
     w_pdf            TYPE t_pdf.
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     i_attachment     TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_attachment,
     i_body_msg       TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_body_msg,
     i_receivers      TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_receivers,
     i_pdf            TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_pdf.
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START-OF-SELECTION.
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Re: to down load the print format to pdf and sent the data thru the mail
Posted: Jul 15, 2009 7:31 AM    in response to: amalrose         Reply
from above
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converting OTF data into pdf data**************************
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ELSE.
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Re: to down load the print format to pdf and sent the data thru the mail
Posted: Jul 15, 2009 7:32 AM    in response to: amalrose         Reply
from above
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Yesterday I learned that Adobe released exclusive update release only for Adobe Creative Cloud customers with Illustrator's new package update. I find that very ironic approach, because I know that diehard Adobe Illustrator customers have request for it for years. Adobe basically ignored us, creative professionals, instead of us, focusing on Adobe Creative Cloud customers.
Rest assured, Adobe Master Collection CS6 is more likely my final upgrade purchase. It was a big slap in my face. I know that it is not just me, knowing that many other creative professionals are upset as I am.
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For example, with Adobe decided to invest some of its resources developed new applications such as Adobe Flash Catalyst and few others in Adobe Creative Suite CS5. When Adobe released CS6, Adobe dropped Flash Catalyst. That is one of example on why I do have benefit of doubt on long term viability and feasibility of Adobe Creative Cloud.
Please listen to us, creative professionals out of our concerns.
If Adobe refuse to listen, include us in that respect, so be it. It is possible that Adobe eventually be losing many lifetime, diehard Adobe creative professionals.
To be honest, I am very disappointed with Adobe's attitude toward creative professionals' being diehard lifetime support and invested lot of our time, tools, and skills and everything... time and money. It is all down in the drain. Thanks!
Have a fabulous day!

And customers fall for it like suckers.
Software development during the emergence of a new category has always been lucrative. A small handful of developers with a good idea sweat blood for a couple years building the core application. Once it exists, delivery is cheap and profit-per-sale is high. Users buy licenses for several hundreds of dollars each. Each new license sale costs next to nothing to replicate in terms of manufacturing. It's all marketing, packaging, and distrubution. Disks are copied and printed for less than $1 each. Printed manuals, of course, may cost $20 or so, depending on color, quality, etc. There is real overhead, of course, in developing good content for manuals.
When all this stuff was new software titles used to cost less, but shipped with installation disks and thorough printed manuals, and a set of added-value extras, like utilities, fonts, clipart. And new version improvements were quite significant and innovative.
But once the software category "matures," with each version, the prices go up; the bundled "extras" become fewer. The focus shifts toward continually look for ways to cheap-out on the customers in order to "improve" the margin for the stockholders, and "milk" the increasingly archaic and mundane software for all that can be got out of it. One way this is done is by turning real value into mere perceived value. Adobe is the worst offender in this regard.
Print manuals have become pay-extra, or non-existent. It astounds me that in the much-ballyhooed age of "information at your fingertips" the ondisk local help has become increasingly difficult and tedious to access. Now, the default behavior of the Help menu has even been modified to disuade users from accessing local PDF versions of the documentation to coerce them to go online for help files access (this from the company that is highly dependent upon PDF). Slow, tedious, and non-contextual as it is, PDF was bad enough. Having to go to Adobe's crappy "community help" system is ridiculous.
This is all promoted, of course, as "immediate access to continual improvement." And customers fall for it like suckers.
Look at the increasingly innane questions that occur daily in this Forum. Newcomers ask the most basic questions, making it obvious they haven't even tried to read page one of the documentation. I've been at this stuff since the beginning. It didn't used to be this way.
Are they all lazy dolts? No. Documentation has become less accessible and less thorough.
Next, Adobe turns the online documentation essentially into blogs. "Live feedback"? "Continual improvement"? Baloney. Beginners clutter what should be authoritative documentation with innane comments. Questions get transferred to the User Forums, where Adobe sluffs off its responsibility for product support to its users; which more often than not turns into a time-wasting process of the blind leading the blind.
Of course, only a mere mention of the term "tech support" will suffice. Everyone knows what thas become.
Once you've eliminated the costs of printing, packaging, and delivering disks and documentation, and turned everything into electronic downloads (causing each customer hours of downtime--often even days futzing around with Adobe's horrible installers), what's next? Stockholders still want increased margin.
Software by subscription and web-centric automation--while still increasing prices, of course--has long been the holy grail of software developers. This is true of all the biggies, including Microsoft, and of course Adobe. But how do you pull it off? How do you convince the suckers?
Releasing new features to the buzzword "cloud" before making them available to perpetual licensees will be Adobe's attempt to "sweeten the pot" to con those who buy into the software subscription scheme. Time will tell how successful the ruse is for Adobe.
The truth is, though, in terms of actual quality of the product, (especially Illustrator) nothing has changed for the better. Look at the very features that we who choose to stay with the relative safety of a traditional license are so upset about: Bundle for output? Export embedded images?
People, how archaic, how old, how yesterdecade's news is that? This is "quick development" that can only be delivered by the "cloud"? Give me a break.
It's utterly laughable, as Illustrator's cobby, clumsy, over-glorified, under-delivered, decades-late-to-the-game delevery of practical functionality always has been. So what's the big rush anyway for features that are already literal decades late? Sheesh, guys, Illustrator is not the only game in town.
Consider: Since the release of CS6, how many posts have you forum regulars seen expressing excitement over the precious few actually new features, like grads-on-strokes? How many stunning examples of use of that feature have you seen users post?
By comarison, how many posts have you seen on complaints about performance and buggy behavior? And proportionally how many are still the endless stream of repeats of the same old questions from newcomers trying to make sense out of Illustrator's uncomparably unintuitive, cluttered, and confused interface? I see the latter largely increasing. And I take that as clear indication that Adobe's treatment of "newfangled" documentation is not working. (And, of course, that Illustrator's interface is still as hideously unintutitve as it has always been.)
Meanwhile, for the first time in too many years, I actually experienced again that new-purchase satisfaction of money-well-spent when I opened the Corel Graphic Design X6 Suite package to find a full-color manual with a hard-bound cover no less! Upgrade cost for anyone with a copy two full versions old? $200. Comes with 1000 OpenType fonts, huge clipart collection, truly useful utilities, and alot more.
I still get a thrill out of every new release of Xara Designer Pro. So much elegant functionality, such clean-running speed, so stunning results possible from that tidy, inviting, intuitive interface in so affordably-priced and fun-to-use application.
Meanwhile, Adobe upgrades have become more burden than pleasure. I actually dread them, especially having been suckered into the whole "Master Collection" thing. CS6 still sits on my desk uninstalled. I just dread having to mess with it.
Oh, but James! That's why you should buy into "the creative cloud"!
Well, don't hold your breath, bucko. If I decide to let CS7 or whatever just slide right by, I'll still be able to keep running the version I've got--without sending a monthly check to Adobe.
These days--when so many younsters who have never swung a hammer at a nail actually try to rationalize renting over home ownership; and when so many middle-agers rationalize making perpetual interest payments for the instant gratification of driving a new car every year--who knows; the "creative cloud" sham may actually succeed.
But not with me. Instead of watching money automatically fly out the window by itself, I'll be chuckling away, using whichever of my usual collection of 2D vector drawing programs I feel most advantageous--or most fun--for the task at hand.
JET

Printing same Smartfom using single click on PRINT for many employee no.

Hi All,
This is my first question that i'm posting in the forum, hope u dont disappont me.
We made a smart form for HR-pay slip. It is working fine for one employee, but when a range of employees are selected it asks a print preview screen each time for every single employee. We managed to get rid of the pop up print preview screen but still on clicking PRINT, it prints first emp. smart form, then back (F3), and again print for second emp. HR people need to run this for hundreds of employee and cannot click print for each one of them.
So, all I wanted was that somehow on clicking PRINT the very first time it shall print for all the range of employees given.
Step.1.Get pernr.
Call SSFfunction module name for smartform ZHR_PAYSLIP
go back to (Step.1) picking the next pernr given while execution

Hi Vivek,
Thanks for your response, now i feel a member of the forum.
I am just a beginner in Smartforms.
Ur reply made me realise that i had not used SSF Open N SSF Close FM.
the fraction of the code is:
========================================
GET pernr.
CALL FUNCTION 'HR_READ_INFOTYPE'.
PERFORM process_pernr                                     "VKIK032705
    USING pernr-pernr pn-paper pn-permo payty payid bondt mc_incl
      pnpabkrs[] subrc.
IF exp_frm EQ false.
     CALL FUNCTION 'SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'
         EXPORTING
           formname             = 'ZHR_PAYSLIP'IMPORTING
          fm_name                  = formname
     control-no_dialog = 'X'.
     control-PREVIEW = 'X'.
         output_options-tdnoprint = 'X'.
         output_options-tdnoprev = 'X'.
         output_options-tdimmed = 'X'.
         output_options-tdiexit = 'X'.
     CALL FUNCTION formname
         EXPORTING
ARCHIVE_INDEX              =
ARCHIVE_INDEX_TAB          =
ARCHIVE_PARAMETERS         =
      CONTROL_PARAMETERS         = control
   NO_DIALOG                 =
MAIL_APPL_OBJ              =
MAIL_RECIPIENT             =
MAIL_SENDER                =
        OUTPUT_OPTIONS             = output_options
'output_options added by himanshu 6.12.2006
        USER_SETTINGS              = ' '
           v_amount                   = v_amount
IMPORTING
DOCUMENT_OUTPUT_INFO       =
JOB_OUTPUT_INFO            =
JOB_OUTPUT_OPTIONS         =
ENDIF.
===========================================
so u see as i have embedded the Call SSF FM stmnt. it executes the smartform for one pernr (personnel no.) and when it fetches the next pernr in the stmnt. GET PERNR, it executes the smartform again.
Is there a way when the smartform can call itself so that the output is successive and i dont have to press back button each time to see the payslip of the next personnel no.
Also plz advise where shall I use the SSF_Open and SSF_Close FMs.

Reliable, Affordable Printer for Macbook Pro w/ Retina??

I apologize ahead of time if this is being posted in the wrong place, but i'm looking for advice on getting a good printer for my Macbook Pro w/ Retina. I currently have an old Dell 1320c and although it setup fine and prints correctly the toner is now printing in gray and the lack of proper driver support makes troubleshooting the printer very difficult. In light of my recent printer troubles I decided to come here for some printer suggestions. As far as price range, I would like to spend no more than $150 for a new printer but if jumping up to $200 or something close greatly improves the quality, i'm open to more suggestions. This printer would only be used by myself at home and strictly for school assignments like word documents, powerpoints w/ pictures, etc. nothing too intense. I would not be printing actual photos and I don't think I need the speed of a laser printer to be honest. I would like a printer with GOOD support, meaning I can easily replace cartridges and not have to worry about replacing my printer for at least 2 years. Dell cartridges were pretty expensive and a lot of people had the same gray output problem that I experienced before the printer even reached 1000 prints. Regardless, this baby lasted me a good 4-5 years before giving me real trouble so I'm hoping a decent printer won't be hard to find.
My main concern is compatibility! I want a printer that is fully compatible with my macbook pro and allows me to utilize their menu services, easily access printer menus, check ink, etc. After that I just want something reliable and consistent with good product support. I will be using the printer every week during school to print notes and assignments, but not photographs and no need for a scanner. I'm not sure what other information to include but I hope I covered enough to give you guys an idea of what im looking for. Ive had trouble with DELL products in general so maybe just a different brand suggestion would be helpful but thanks ahead of time!
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I don't mind wireless vs. usb as long as theres not much price difference. Also it might be worth noting that the macbook I have has no CD drive so I would want a printer that I can set up without a CD drive, thanks!

I don't have a specific recommendation, but if at all possible you should choose an AirPrint-enabled printer from the (possibly incomplete) list in the linked support article. It will need no software or configuration, and will work with iOS devices.

Seperate Adobe Form printing for each order

Hi,
I have a scenario where i need to print Adobe Form for each order.
Right now i am handling this from print program(Executable) by looping at the Adobe form FM for each order.
So it will print seperate Adobe form for each order with corresponding Header & Item Data.
To get next order i need to hit on right & last arrows etc...
So right now i am handling it through Print Program.
Is there any way it can be handled directly at Adobe Form level.
By passing all orders to Adobe FM at a time (Intsead of looping) and handling Adobe Form printing for each order at Adobe Form level itself!
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Kumar.

simple,
create one new program not driver program . Then u have to call that FORM
1.Get all the data created during the dates.
split the data into , based on the date ranges.
2.
loop at itab1.
perform open_form
write_form
close_form
endloop.
loop at itab2.
endloop.
1) I need to print the form automatically when an Order is created.---->COnfig
2) Every June 15th and Dec 15th I need to print the form for that Order
automatically with some other data.
---> what ? what u split ?
*--Similarly I need to trigger the form in this way automatically for all Orders.
---> Config+ABAP
How can I trigger the Form automaticall for the above requirement
Regards
Prabhu

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