Standalone Forms
SAP Forms service by Adobe offers master forms and content forms. While master forms contain static data, such as logos or sender address (the letterhead), content forms contain dynamic data, such as business data. Additionally, SAP Forms service by Adobe also offers standalone forms. A standalone form is a regular form in SAP S/4HANA. It acts as a combination of a master form and a content form, but without any reuse options.
The following list applies to both standalone forms and the combination of master forms/content forms:
- A form data provider is offered for data provisioning.
- Administrative information (such as, the reference to a data provider) is maintained in the SAP Fiori app Maintain Form Templates.
- The form technology is "cloud-ready", which means it is not only compatible with SAP S/4HANA (on-premise), but also with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.
Form Maintenance in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Customers do not create their own form data providers. Instead, SAP offers predelivered form templates with associated form data providers. Form templates can be downloaded from the Maintain Form Templates app - or more precisely, the layout and description from the form data provider service of the template can be downloaded.
The download is in Zip file format and needs to be extracted on the client. The ZIP file contains an XDP (XML Data Provider) file, which holds the layout data, and an XSD file, which holds the form data provider description. The XML file can be opened with Adobe LiveCycle Designer on the client. The data view is included (via the XSD file), so that all available data from the form data provider is visible to the developer.
Once the customer has finished editing the layout, it can be stored locally in an XDP file. The customer then creates a new form with the SAP Fiori app Maintain Form Templates, enters the administrative data of the form, and uploads the XDP file containing the layout data.
Maintain a Form in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Play the video to learn how to maintain a form in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.