What are Smart Forms?

Hi All,
What are smart forms and what's it's use? As a functional consultant, what do i need to know about it?
A User asked me about creating a SmartForm to gather information (from different dept of the business - Finance, Quality, Purchasing...etc) to create a new Material Master.
What is the transaction code for this? Are smart form something like PDF? Can this be saved to desktop and email to people via outlook? Are data input to the form also saved with the form?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Smartforms are layout sets in SAP.
Transaction Code :SMARTFORMS
As a functional consultant you need to know the standard forms available for different scenarios. If you need to develop a new layout, you need to give layout design and proper logic to ABAPer.
Visit [SAP's online help on Smartforms|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/a5/de6838abce021ae10000009b38f842/content.htm].
You use Smart Forms to create and maintain forms for mass printing in SAP systems. Besides using the printer for standard output you can also select the Internet (by using a generated HTML output), a fax, or e-mail as the output medium.
In addition to the tool, SAP delivers a selection of forms for central business processes. This includes forms in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) as well as in the applications SD, FI, and HR.
Smart Forms offers the following advantages:
-        Creating and maintaining forms requiring half the time
-        Adapting forms without any programming knowledge due to entirely graphical user interface
-        Integrating input elements into the HTML output, which enables you to use a form in Internet applications as well
Also, visit [Introduction to Smartforms|http://www.sap-img.com/smartforms/smart-001.htm].
[SAP Smartforms Tutorial Hints and Tips|http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/sapsf001.htm].
Regards,
Srilatha.

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