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What are the advantages of SAP SCRIPTS over SMARTFORMS and what are thae advantages of SMARTFORMS  over SAP SCRIPTS?

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PROTECT: Protect from page break
You can determine that a paragraph must not be separated by a page break in the style or layout set. If the attribute page protection is set, then all the lines of this paragraph are always output together on one page. This attribute is linked to the respective paragraph.
It certainly does not make sense, to provide all the paragraphs with a page protection attribute to neutralize an unwanted page break. This event is much too dynamic for this and only results from the current text. Furthermore, it can also happen that you only want to protect parts of a paragraph from a page break. In principle, you could solve this problem using the command NEW-PAGE, by explicitly starting a new page before the affected parts of the text. However, this procedure is not very easy to make changes to. Assume that you have formatted your text using the NEW-PAGE command so that you have no unwanted
page breaks. If you now insert new lines or delete existing ones, you would have to check all the NEW-PAGE commands inserted after this point in the text, as changes can result in the movement of page breaks. With the command pair PROTECT. ENDPROTECT, SAPscript offers you the option of individually defining protection from a page break. If you parenthesize the text in question using these commands, SAPscript automatically guarantees that all the lines it contains are printed together on one page. If the lines fit on the current output page, they are output there, in exactly the same way as if the PROTECT
command was not used. If, however, the space is not sufficient, the PROTECT command then works as a NEW-PAGE and generates a form feed .For this reason, you can view PROTECT/ENDPROTECT as a conditional NEW-PAGE command, whose condition consists of whether the included lines fit into the current window MAIN or not.
Syntax:
/: PROTECT
/: ENDPROTECT
The lines to be protected lie between the two commands.
•An ENDPROTECT command without a preceding PROTECT command
is ineffective.
•If the last ENDPROTECT is missing, it is implicitly assumed at the end
of the text.
•PROTECT .. ENDPROTECT commands cannot be nested. If a second
PROTECT command is recognized while another is active, the second is
ignored.
•If the text between PROTECT and ENDPROTECT is so extensive that it
would not completely fit on an empty page, then only one form feed is
generated and the text is then output normally. Thus, in this case, the
section to be protected can be separated by a page break.
Ex:
/: PROTECT
P &VAR&
P THIS IS for test
P This is test
/:ENDPROTECT
/: PROTECT
/: ENDPROTECT
The lines to be protected lie between the two commands.
Regards,
Priyanka.