First of all I would like to warn you that quite many SAP standard forms are a little crazy. No guidelines and best practices for the Adobe forms development were followed and thus it is a little troublesome to use or even change some of the forms (of course only few are not that good in my opinion and of course I didn´t have the "pleasure" to check all the available forms). Because of that it is important to decide if you can accomplish your task with the standard form (with some LITTLE enhancements) or if it would be better to start from scratch.
If the standard form suits your needs and you only need to realign the layout a little, translate the texts, add a logo, add a note for the user or add a field or two, definitely use the SAP-standard form. I would recommend using the standard form for the complex and difficult finance or logistics problems as well.
Even if the form is not too complex, you must always keep in my there is a printing program associated with the form which extracts and transforms the data needed for the form.
If you would use only a small part of the delivered functionality, consider starting from scratch. Well, you don´t have to recreate everything. You could reuse the printing program and create only a new form for example. In that case you will have to decide, if you will create your own form AND the new interface or create only a form (the layout) and reuse the standard interface.
You will probably reuse the interface if you will use most of the data prepared in the standard interface by the standard printing program. You will probably not use the standard interface if it is messy (some are a little messy, in my opinion), if you would use only a few fields of the big set of data (remember you can achieve a better performance if you de-activate the nodes not needed in the form layout) and especially if you can get the data you want, but not all and/ or not in the right format (for example there are the lines of some type, but half of the fields you need to use in the form is missing).
If you will reuse the interface, you need to find the very end of the printing program, where the name of the form can be changed easily (or find the customizing where you can do it the right way!), and repair the program.
I will describe what steps you need to perform when you want to keep all the standard parts of the form printing scenario. You have two basic options:
Pick an option, the choice is up to you. Let´s describe the other details:
Just run the enhanced form and wait for the result. If something is not going as expected, check these (in my opinion the most often made mistakes):
Hope that will help some people not to struggle with the standard forms and remember: use the versioning, both for the coding and for the form objects! You may think that is for loosers, but you will understand at the moment your whole-last-week-work will stop working and you will not be able to find the moment when everything went wrong, what causes the problem or how to find the solution (and implement it on time).
Regards Otto (you´re welcomed to SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe)
p.s.: Just in case you don´t know if there is a form you can use to satisfy the needs of a customer, you can check the list of the standard forms like this: Go to http://service.sap.com/erp (SAP ERP) -> Media Library - SAP ERP Overview -> Detailed information cross ERP -> Adobe Forms for SAP ERP
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