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Hi all,it took me a while to finish this blog here because of a lot discussions why and moreover how to handle it. Anyway, that is just a sidenotice and I really appriciate your point of view. So leave a comment and tell me your point of view to this topic.
If you just want to dive into the technical recommendations start with point custom code adaptionThe motivationAs you might have already read in the simplification list, SAP has made a strong commit to IfbA (Interactive Forms by Adobe). Fact is, that Sapscript will be no longer officially be available to customize your output.Find below a example snippet out of the simplification documentation 15112.1.2.14 Billing Document Output Management2.1.2.14.1 DescriptionWith SAP S/4HANA a new output management approach is in place. By design, the new output management includes cloud qualities such as extensibility enablement, multi tenancy enablement and modification free configuration. Therefore the complete configuration differs from the configuration that is used when output management is based on NAST. The configuration is based on BRF+ which is accessible for customers.
In SAP S/4 HANA, the target architecture is based on Adobe Document Server and Adobe Forms only. For the form determination rules(along with other output parameters) BRF+ functionality is used( in this sense in combination with the message determination).Output management based on NAST is not available for new documents in SD billing. Billing documents that are migrated from legacy systems and for which NAST based output has been determined, can be processed with this technology. For all new billing documents the new output management is used.
Therefore in Sales & Distribution are billing/customer invoice there is a need to adapt the configuration settings related to Output management.It is recommended to use Adobe Forms but due to a compatibility the form technologies know from Business Suite(like Smart forms, Sap Script) are supported as well. Other channels are not available by default.Here is the direct link:Additional to that there are more than this part which aims to the output management. You can common information under Top Cross Application – point 2.1.39.1Output ManagementFor me the important snippet is:Print Technology: The SAP S/4HANA Output Management supports the following print technologies:o SmartFormso Adobe Formso Adobe Forms using FragmentsI have read a lot content about preparing your landscape (especially ABAP) for the big move. For example– Get rid of old (not used) code– Check the health-state of your system– Analyze Select-Statements and so on.A nice summary of necessary steps can be found here. Thomas did a great job and this blog has opened the way for the blog you are reading at the moment.What always is not mentioned, Output-Management 😐So the question I have in my mind: How to prepare the forms for the future without having this major invest on the point of upgrading! Next to the money it is hard to name a timeline on that and that is a risk for the whole team.Great thing is, that Thomas filled my gap how to present this blog here and so do not wonder, I borrowed the headlines:-)Ok, enough of my motivation and see what we can do.
Preparation phase before the migration (old system landscape)Overview and PlanningOverviewOne of the most important points whatever you do with your system is to have an overview. You need to identify every single form you are running in your system and you also need to know what these are doing. I see a lot systems and one of the common problem is, that there is no overview what forms are used and moreover which process is it calling. I don’t talk about the common forms like sales order or billing documents, these forms everybody can name when I ask the first time.
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The black box are label-forms or the internal paper which might look ugly but is a process-accelerator for your internal employee.So the message is, invest some time (and of course in a way money) to get an list of all forms and what process are calling it.PlanningAfter having the overview you need to identify how to start. That’s an easy task, because again the well known forms are normally also the forms, which need a lot of time to analyze and prepare for the upgrade. So you just need to decide which form will be the first.Out of the part of my motivation there is at the end only one possible scenario in my eyes.
Font proxima nova regular. Develop all forms with IfbA.Hint: The process how to technically process with it remains always the same. That mean, if it might be helpful to start with a “not-so-complex” form to get used to it;-)Getting startedAdobe Document StackThere are some sideconditions to use IfbA. This blog do not focus on that, so here is a link how to configure it.The only aspect I want to cover, is that you don’t need to install the ADS (Adobe Document Stack) at your landscape if you do not want.
There is a offer from SAP to run it as a service. You can find some information about it here:and the cool thing, that is why I mention it hereThere is a free trial! Find the necessary information in this blog:Developing Forms with IfbAAdditional to that, this blog also do not cover it, how to use the IfbA tools and how to develop forms. There is a lot information available and I just link the two official courses here. Anyway, I think if you made it to this point of the blog you have at least some experience in developing forms.Most of the tips in this blog remains the same also for IfbAcustom code adaptionDriver programs from SAP are a good point to start, but most of the times it doesn’t cover all the aspects you need.
Great blog, Florian, and a very “hot” subject.I believe SAPScript is work of the devil and should’ve been sunsetted long time ago. 🙂 But One of our ECC systems was setup around 2009 and it’s stuffed with custom SAPScripts. Many of those are rather important forms (such as customer account statements, QM reports, shop floor packet for manufacturing, etc.) and it’d take quite a bit of effort to re-do them.Obvious question: why SAPScripts were still used in 2009? Obvious answer: despite banging the Adobe drum for years, SAP actually did very little to revamp the output and deliver standard print programs and forms for many essential processes. Or if they did something they forgot to tell the customers.This migration could have started years ago and the customers would be in a better shape now.
Right now, based on what you’re saying, I foresee we (and other customers) are looking at the heaps of complete “do-overs” with translations to multiple languages. That’s quite a bit of workAs you noted, it’s very important to know and organize your outputs and forms. I built a list as soon as I started working here and have been adding to it since. It’s been tremendously helpful on many occasions. Also it allowed us to identify that we were using 4 different forms for essentially the same output (got rid of 3 of them eventually). This is the effort that can be easily started today. Don’t wait till the last minute.
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This “ I foresee we (and other customers) are looking at the heaps of complete “do-overs” with translations to multiple languages” is probably one of the reasons SAP feels there is no need to refactor their own applications as the new output management tech gets added.I may be too cynical, but the claim in note 2228611 that the “ new output management replaces all legacy frameworks” – I’ll believe it when I see it. For example, it would be a considerable effort for SAP itself to redo FI-CA and IS-U Correspondences, the underlying PWB Form infrastructure and the related printing Mass Activities.And all that effort to gain what better “low energy” E-mail output and XML Ariba integration? Freedom from ABAPers? Separate logos or footer texts per company? Multiple messages to multiple recipients using multiple of 3 channels at the same time? More features for which the customers, if there was a need, one way or the other had probably found a way of supporting them? Call me underwhelmed.Mass Activities at least have FI-CA Job Commander to schedule and run them – to organize your mass output, to put some kind of EMMA/BPEM monitoring on it.
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Not much info on mass processing in the “new style”, but I guess EMMA/BPEM monitoring should be possible (there are SLG1 logs).As for the central customizing activity“ Note that there is no transport mechanism. Settings must be made separately in every system and/or client. You can use the Excel Download/Upload function to do so.”I wonder who thought that was a good idea.
😕The old stuff is not really going to go away, I think, yet again It’s just another reason to declare dead-end (sorry, legacy) something that got promoted to cross-application stuff (PWB and Correspondences in this case) and to likely stop developing features for it. To summarize first impression: yet more tech to master for those having to make it all run! Hi Florian,thanks for this blog! I have one additional question: is there a difference between the different deployment options: cloud, onPremise, managed cloud?I read above mentioned OSS notes as well as additional notes and I note statements that are not precise and raise questions.
F.E.: “new Output Management Framework replaces FI-CA Print Workbench”. There ist no print workbench in FI-CA, Print Workbench as well as the Correspondence Tool are in SAPABA.
There is an extension of the Correspondence Tool in FI-CA that uses Print Workbench as well as the Correspondence Tool. But the message from the note is clear: All current print framworks became obsolete. So your advice from decoupling Business logic is valuable.In fact I did the same in my output management projects and tried keep ABAP code in Application Forms of Print Workbench small instead of doing the standard implementation where much coding is done in the user exits.Best Regards,Tobias. Hi Florian,after reading all notes I agree with you: the architecture is quite the same and all output will be sent to a printer that can be anywhere. So Cloud and onPremise architecture should be similar.Is there a document describing the implementation of the new Output Management? Especially the migration from Application Forms could be challenging. As I described above I tried to avoid them in my projects but I know from many industries that they use sometimes very sophisticated tricks (f.e.
Prefetching Business data in the SAP Banking Solution for dealing with high volume scenarios.And I have another questions:. Do you see a Kiss of Live (Trademark by ) for Adobe Interactive Forms as well?
Adobe Print Forms are doing fine, but Interactive Forms on mobile devices are sometimes crappy. Are there architecture recommendations for Integration of external OMS? Or is this business as usual?. From a functional Point of view: Is there anything new like print preview or editing before printing?Best Regards,Tobias.
Hi Tobias,Technically the onPremise and cloud editions share the same codeline but of course there are differences when it comes to what a cloud user can actually do. For example you can configure the system to use existing SAPScript, SmartForms and Adobe Forms in the cloud but you will not be able to change such forms without backend access as the corresponding editing tools are not cloud enabled.So for the cloud it is a must to move to the new Adobe Forms.For onPremise this also recommended but optional.Interactive Forms are currently not supported.Preview and editing before printing is in principle possible with the new output control, but the business application decides if and how it is available.Regards,Markus. Hi Nikolaus,SAP has moved the FI-Forms a while ago to Adobe. So as written above my recommandation is to use Adobe.Here is a Wiki which shows the most common forms in the area of FinancialsAs quoted from the whitepaper I think SAP will no longer support the sapscript forms.
No matter, in case there will be a option to put in a Sapscript you will no longer get any updates with packages and that is for sure a serious problem and talk to me to move away from Sapscript and also Smartforms.Does this answer your question?Florian.