Smartform

              Smart form is a GUI Tool which is used to design the business legal documents such as Delivery note,Purchase order,Invoice etc .Smartforms are client independent objects.

Tcode is Smartforms.





SmartForm Consist Of Three Windows

1. Navigation window (left panel) :- 
                      It consist of nodes and sub nodes. They contain all the 
elements (text, window etc) that belong to sap forms .

Navigation Window has Two Main Nodes 

A. Global Setting  :-It is used to provide the basic settings for the smartform.
   
Form Attribute :- 

               It specifies the general attributes like who created, Date time,    

        package,translate options, default smart style, Page format .

Form Interface :- 

                It acts as a mediator between a driver program and a smart      

         form The main functionality of form interface is, it will import the    

         parameters which are exported by driver program.The parameters can be 

         variables, work areas, internal tables..etc.
                         

Global Definition :-

               It will contain the variables to be used within the smart  form.

         We can define variables, user defined data types, field symbols, 

         initialization code,Subroutine, currency/quantity fields.It is mainly used 

         for declaring or defining the above variables.

B . Pages and windows

This will contain all the pages and the windows, which are used in the smartform.
By default, a page will be created by name %page1.
By default, a window will be created by name 'Main' under the page1.
For each page, we need to specify the next page.
Eg: page = %page1 
Next page = %page1 or %page2 

Nodes under pages :-

Page     :  It is used to define the layout of a smartform. We can have 
               different pages with different layouts. 
               
Window : it is used to display information or text at a particular place on a page.
Graphic : it is used to display logos or images on the smartforms.
Address : It is used to display the address of customer or vendor or employee, 
               organization address , workplace address etc.Just provide address no,
               it will automatically display the address as per the country formats.

Nodes under the window :-

Text              : it is used to display the information or text in a window.
Table             : It is used to display the information in the form of table.When 
                       ever we create table by default HEADER, MAIN AREA, FOOTER  
                       will be displayed The main functionality of a table is, it expands  
                       automatically depending on the internal table data.We need to   
                       provide the name of the internal table for a table.          
Template       : template is also like a table which does not expand. That means 
                      it will have fixed number of rows and columns.         
Program lines : it is used to write some lines of abap code.

Window Types in Smartforms :-

Main window         : For continuous output .
Secondary window : For output with a fixed length.
Final window         : Special type of secondary window for outputting the 
                              information that is not known until the end of form 
                              processing .
Copies window       : Special type of secondary window for marking pages as 
                              copy or original. 

2. Maintenance window : - It  shows attributes of the elements

3 .Form painter window :- It  shows the layout of the page.
             This Form Painter Layout Which has Windows & Main Window.