SMARTFORMS

Smartform Development 
STEP BY STEP PROCESS TO CREATE SMARTFORMS

 Smartform is a template that simplifies the process of designing business forms. You need smartform to print, distribute or display business forms. Smartform tool includes utilities for designing forms and for defining the interface to the application programs that use forms for data output. The output of application data is placed into a dynamically expandable table where the size and layout of the output table is determined by the number of records being retrieved.

Use of Smartform

•   Smartforms are used for designing and printing various types of application documents across the various SAP modules like SD, FI, PU, IM, WM etc. Smartforms are used for mass printing like monthly invoices sent by telecom companies or salary statements.

Smartform has 3 driving components : Print Program, Layout Set and Function module.

To develop a smartform object one needs to develop following objects :

1.Smartform Layout :

Ø Can be developed in the Form Painter

Ø Decides the data format   

       Transactions to use : Smartforms         

                                             Smartstyles - To design our own style.

2.Print Program :

ØPerforms data selection based on selection criteria

ØPasses data to the smartform function module

      Transaction to use :  SE38 to develop a print program.

To develop a smartform object one needs to develop following objects :

Smartform Layout : Layout decides the format of data to be displayed on the 

paper.Layout can be 

developed using Form Painter provided by SAP 5.0. Once the smartform is activated 

its corresponding 

function module is generated by SAP. The function module name can be obtained by 

calling another 

function ‘SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME’ by passing smartform name as input parameter.

       Transactions to use : Smartforms       

  

                                             Smartstyles - To design our own style.

Print Program : Print program performs all required data selection depending upon 

the specified 

selection criteria. This program calls the function module of a smartform and passes 

the data to 

smartform function module. This function module then puts the data in a format 

defined by layout.

      Transaction to use :  SE38 to develop a print program.