Adobe Forms Integration

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Adobe Form s In t egrat ionin SAP Web AS 6.40

Marc ChanSr. NetWeaver ConsultantNetWeaver RIG US


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SAP AG 2004, Adobe Forms Integration with Web AS 6.40, Marc Chan / 2

Agenda

Scenario Overview

Technical Architecture andDemo


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Business Need for In terac t ive Forms

Extend business processes to more usersn Integrate more users (internal and external) into business processes

Improve forms-based business processes

n Paper is error-prone and easily outdated

n Paper-based forms require manual data re-entry

n HTML, email and fax documents are frequently redundant

The answer is to deploy interactive forms

n Documents that contain data extracted from core systems

n Can be dynamic or static, completed online or offline

n Enable full automation of forms-based business processes


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What does i t look l i ke ?

Paper- l ike layoutnSelf-explanatory

nNatural look andfeel

User Handl ing

n Save locally

n Distribute via email / Portal

nDigital signature

n Local printing

Back ground Serv ices

nStructured data in XML

n Prefilled application values

n Prefilled list boxes, help values,

n Automatic data extractionand integration in application


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Part nership Overview

Benefits of SAP-Adobe cooperation

n Integration of Adobe PDF technology into SAP solutions

n 500 million Adobe Readers distributed worldwide

n User-friendly design tool significantly reduce TCOn Pre-existing PDF forms, e.g. government forms, can be re-used

n Natural look and feel for many business scenarios

Adobe/SAP strategic partnership

n Initial partnership contract signed in 06/2002

n Solution is available with NetWeaver04

Adobe provides

n Open technology, de-facto standard for forms

n Combine benefits of PDF with open XML technology


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Benef i ts of In terac t ive Forms Solut ion

Reduce operational costs

n Eliminate time-consuming, error-prone paper document processing

Communicate and collaborate more effectively

n Reach out to extended teams and external parties with interactive forms;capture information from anyone and return it to SAP system

n Make it easy to capture and process information from any employee,

customer, supplier or partner

n Streamline forms-based collaboration and communication

Embed best practices into interactive forms

n Enable new collaborative business scenarios with interactive forms based onPDF via mySAP ERP, SAP for Public Sector, Manager Self Services (MSS)etc.

n Re-purpose existing PDF forms from organization, government, or publicdomain

n Easily create forms


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Solut ion Overview

Graphical Forms Designer

n Integrated with SAP development environmentsDocuments for viewing and printing

n PDF, PS, PCL and ZPL output

PDF Documents with Adobe Reader Rights

n Enable new functionality in Adobe Reader, like Save as, Annotations,Digital Signature and Certification

n Can be turned on by document

Interactive online forms

n Visually rich PDF forms

n Tightly integrated with existing SAP User Interface framework

Interactive offline PDF forms (round-trip forms)

n Created and distributed from the SAP application

n Are completed by the user in Adobe Reader while offline

n Completed form can be submitted using the integrated submit button, viae-mail or http


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Ful l Int egrat ion int o SAP Net Weaver

J2EE ABAPApplication Platform

Adobe Document Services

DB and OS Abstraction

Adobe Designer

.NET

Web-Sphere


People Integrat ion

Com

posite

Applica

tion

Fram

ework

Process Integrat ion

IntegrationBroker

Business ProcessManagement

In fo rmat ion In tegra t ion

BusinessIntelligence

KnowledgeManagement

Life

Cycle

Managem

ent

Portal Collaboration

J2EE ABAP

Appl ica t i on P la t fo rm

Multi-Channel Access

SAPSAP NetWeaver NetWeaver

Master Data Management


Adobe Designer


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Comm unicat ion o f Components - Run Time

PDF Object (Java)PDF Object (Java)

PDF Object (ABAP)PDF Object (ABAP)

Application Code (Java)Application Code (Java) Application Code (ABAP)Application Code (ABAP)

SAP Web Application Server

J2EE Stack ABAP Stack

Document servicesDocument services

(EJB)(EJB)

Web Services

Adobe document servicesAdobe document services

Core ComponentsCore Components

Web Services

Web Services

Post ProcessingPost Processing

FrameworkFramework

SOAP

SOAP

J2EE ABAP

Application Platform



Adobe DesignerAdobe Designer


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Sc enar io 1: Forms for Dat a Ac quis i t ion (onl inescenar io)

SAP Application

e.g. worker of assembly line

Bill of Material, Materialproperties, Q-Forms, ...

Prefilled according tolocation and worker


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Sc enar io 2: Support for Sales Forc e (of f l ine sc enar io)

z.B. mySAP CRM

n

Completing form with thecustomern Print-out for the customer

as protocoln Forwarding form to SAP

system

n Generation customer visit

out of campaignn Filled PDF-meeting-minutes is

sent to sales representatives

@Sales Representative

n Automatic processing of next

steps (e.g. order posting)

@SAP


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Sc enar io 3: St ruct ured Correspondenc e (doc umentcreat ion)

SAP Application Employee

Interactive

forms

Return

n Fully automaticallyn Via employee

Processing

n Electronic dispatching(email, portal) as PDF file(with individual editing rules)

n Printing

Generates

sets of dataat differenttimes

n Automatic selection ofdocuments or sets of documents

n Automatic filling of

corresponding fields


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Agenda

Scenario Overview

Technical Architecture andDemo


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In terac t ive Forms Solu t ion Des ign T ime

Java PDF Object ABAP PDF Object

SAP Web Application Server


J2EE Engine

NetWeaver Developer Studio ABAP Workbench


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Int erac t ive PDF Forms in Web Dynpro


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Overview Sof tw are Component s

Adobe providesAdobe Document Services (ADS)

u Implemented as a Web Service on SAP NetWeaver 04

u Generates a PDF based on

l Template (XML Form Template - XFT): layout description

l Data (XML Form Data - XFD): data

u

Applies Adobe Reader Rights to the PDFu Extracts data from a PDF

u Additional features (not yet used):

l Encryption

l Digital Signatures

l Certificates

nAdobe Designer (AD)u Design time for creating form templates

n Adobe Reader (Version 6.0.2 or higher)

u Additional Plugin handles client-side communication with Web Dynpro


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Overview Sof tw are Component s

SAP provides

n SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio

u Java Development Tools (e.g. WebDynpro with Interactive Form UI element)

u Designer Integration Control (embeds Adobe Designer in Developer Studio)

n SAP Web Application Server

u Web Dynpro Runtime (e.g. Interactive Form server-side element)

u PDFObject

l Application interface for ADS-calls:

u Reader Integration Control (client-side integration: DLL + Installer)

IWDPDFObject pdfObject = WDPDFObjectFactory.getPDFObject();

pdfObject.setTemplate(templateURL);

pdfObject.setData(dataStream);boolean callStatus = pdfObject.createPDF(resultURL);


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Overview Des ign T ime

Developer Studio

Adobe Designer

DTR DDIC

Web Dynpro

Designer Integration

Control

Interactive Form


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Overv iew - Runt ime

Web Application Server

Web Dynpro Runtime

Adobe DocumentServices

Web Dynpro Application

Interactive Form

PDF Object

Browser

CSF

AdobeReader

Interactive

Form

ReaderIntegration

Control


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Demo

Demo


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In t eract ive Form Demo Onl ine Sc enar io

Browser

Web AS

DB

Web DynproApplication


AdobeReader


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In t eract ive Form Demo Off l ine Sc enar io

Browser

Web AS

DB


Web DynproApplication Adobe

ReaderFile system

Mail Client

Mail Server

JavaApplication


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In te rac t i ve Form Demo - Arch i tec t u re

AdobeIntegrationComp

DatabaseComp

OnlineComp OfflineComp

embeds

embeds

embeds

read,clear,submit

DB

Web-Dynpro-Project-Diagram: AdobeIntegrationDC

read,clear,submit

submitToDatabaseEvent

submitToDatabaseEvent

init

EmbeddingComponents

Cross ComponentControl Flow

DatabaseAccess

Cross ComponentData Flow

PrefillData


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Bui ld Up Contex t Of Form View


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Def ine Form Vi ew And Bindings


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Define Form L ayout an d Mappings

Da t a Sc h em a Gr ap hi c al L ay ou t De si gn er De si gn er T oo ls Pa le t t e


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Further Information

Public Web:SAP Developer Network: http://sdn.sap.com

Area: Web AS; Quick Link: Interactive Forms

(https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=adobeforms.htm)

SAP Customer Services Network: http://service.sap.com/adobe

Adobe Systems: http://www.adobe.com/sap

Product Management / Consulting Contact

Matthias Zeller, Adobe ([email protected])

Markus Meisl, SAP ([email protected])

Carsten Brandt , SAP ([email protected])

Marc Chan, SAP ([email protected])
http://sdn.sap.com/https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=adobeforms.htmhttp://service.sap.com/adobehttp://www.adobe.com/sapmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.adobe.com/saphttp://service.sap.com/adobehttps://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/was.sdn?page=adobeforms.htmhttp://sdn.sap.com/


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Q& A

Quest ions?


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n Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of othersoftware vendors.

n Adobe, Adobe PDF Logo and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe SystemsIncorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

n Microsoft, WINDOWS, NT, EXCEL, Word, PowerPointand SQL Serverare registered trademarks ofMicrosoft Corporation.

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n Citrix, the Citrix logo, ICA, Program Neighborhood, MetaFrame, WinFrame, VideoFrame, MultiWinandother Citrix product names referenced herein are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc.

n HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C, World Wide Web Consortium,Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

n JAVAis a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

n JAVASCRIPTis a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license for technology inventedand implemented by Netscape.

n MarketSet and Enterprise Buyer are jointly owned trademarks of SAP AG and Commerce One.n SAP, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com, xApps, xApp and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as

their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several othercountries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respectivecompanies.

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n Microsoft, WINDOWS, NT, EXCEL, Word, PowerPointund SQL Serversind eingetragene Marken derMicrosoft Corporation.

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n HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML sind Marken oder eingetragene Marken des W3C, World Wide Web Consortium,Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

n JAVA ist eine eingetragene Marke der Sun Microsystems, Inc.

n JAVASCRIPT ist eine eingetragene Marke der Sun Microsystems, Inc., verwendet unter der Lizenz der vonNetscape entwickelten und implementierten Technologie.

n MarketSet und Enterprise Buyer sind gemeinsame Marken von SAP AG und Commerce One.

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