Smart Forms & Action Monitor & SAP Business Workflow

Smart Forms

§SAP Smart Forms provide a graphical user interface that helps you create and maintain the layout and the form logic of a form: the SAP Form Builder.  You don’t require any programming or scripting knowledge. 

§When creating a form, you must:

–Retrieve the application data

–Describe your form

–Pass the application data to the form 

§When you request a printout of a form, the application program obtains the relevant data to be used and prints it on the form. 

§ Data retrieval and form logic are separated from one another. 

Action Monitor

§You can monitor and trigger the processing of actions for several documents and marketing objects using the action monitor. 

§If you regularly schedule the program as a background job, the system can automatically start certain actions, whose start conditions have been fulfilled, at a particular time.

  
The action monitor program RSPPFPROCESS (transaction SPPFP) originates from the Post Processing Framework (PPF). You can use this program to check processing for all actions (for example, output, follow-up documents). 

You receive a list of actions according to your selection criteria.

In the status column, you can see whether the action 

•is not processed (yellow)

•has been processed successfully (green)

•has been processed incorrectly (red)

•You can select individual actions in the list and

•trigger processing manually: for this,

•repeat processing.

•display output issue:

•display a processing log.

•You can also display whether the action has been changed, repeated, created manually or blocked.

   

SAP Business Workflow 

§You use SAP Business Workflow (WebFlow Engine) to define business processes that are not yet mapped in the SAP System. 

§Business Workflow is particularly suitable for situations in which work processes have to be run through repeatedly, or situations in which the business process requires the involvement of a large number of agents in a specific sequence 

§Business Workflow uses the existing transactions and functions of the SAP System and does not change the functions. 

§You can combine the existing functions of the SAP System to form new business processes with Business Workflow

  

Workflow process complex steps and requires a commit work.