SAP Scripts

About the Tutorial

SAP Scripts is a SAP tool that is used to generate formatted documents and for external
purposes to print and transfer business documents.

This tutorial talks about the basic concepts of SAP Scripts and how the various components
interact. Details on how to create and maintain form layouts as well as execute print
programs are included.

Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for those who want to know the basics of SAP Scripts and
utilize it in their work domain. Developers, consultants, and individuals responsible for
maintaining and executing print programs will benefit from this tutorial.

Prerequisites
This tutorial is designed for beginners with little or no experience in SAP Scripts. However,
you need to have a basic understanding of SAP Basics to make the most of this tutorial.

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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial .................................................................................................................................. i

Audience ................................................................................................................................................ i

Prerequisites .......................................................................................................................................... i

Disclaimer & Copyright ........................................................................................................................... i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................. ii

1. SAP SCRIPTS − OVERVIEW .................................................................................................. 1

2. SAP SCRIPTS − SMART FORMS............................................................................................ 3

3. SAP SCRIPTS − FORM PAINTER ........................................................................................... 4

4. SAP SCRIPTS − LAYOUT SET ................................................................................................ 7

5. SAP SCRIPTS − PRINT PROGRAM ...................................................................................... 10

Print Program − Example ..................................................................................................................... 12

6. SAP SCRIPTS − CREATING A WINDOW .............................................................................. 15

7. SAP SCRIPTS − OUTPUT AREA........................................................................................... 20

8. SAP SCRIPTS − TEXT MODULE .......................................................................................... 21

9. SAP SCRIPTS − GROUPING TEXT ....................................................................................... 24

10. SAP SCRIPTS − FORMAT OPTIONS .................................................................................... 25

Placeholder / Symbol Structure ........................................................................................................... 25

11. SAP SCRIPTS − OUTPUT TYPES.......................................................................................... 27

12. SAP SCRIPTS – CONTROL PRINT OUTPUT ......................................................................... 32

Key Function Modules ......................................................................................................................... 33

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13. SAP SCRIPTS − DATA FORMATS ........................................................................................ 35

Raw Data Output Format..................................................................................................................... 35

14. SAP SCRIPTS − EXPORT ..................................................................................................... 36

Export a File ......................................................................................................................................... 36

15. SAP SCRIPTS − IMPORT .................................................................................................... 39

Import a File ........................................................................................................................................ 39

16. SAP SCRIPTS − CONTROL TABLES ..................................................................................... 42

17. SAP SCRIPTS − TEXT & GRAPHICS ..................................................................................... 45

Add Graphs to SAPscript ...................................................................................................................... 45

18. SAP SCRIPTS − CONTROL COMMANDS ............................................................................. 48

19. SAP SCRIPTS − COPY SCRIPTS ........................................................................................... 50

20. SAP SCRIPTS - STANDARD TEXT ........................................................................................ 52

21. SAP SCRIPTS − WORD PROCESSING .................................................................................. 58

PC Editor .............................................................................................................................................. 58

Line Editor ........................................................................................................................................... 58

Microsoft Word Editor ......................................................................................................................... 59

Setting Microsoft Word as Editor for SAPscript ................................................................................... 61

22. SAP SCRIPTS − CREATE A DOCUMENT .............................................................................. 63

23. SAP SCRIPTS − UPDATE A DOCUMENT ............................................................................. 65

24. SAP SCRIPTS − FIND A DOCUMENT .................................................................................. 67

25. SAP SCRIPTS − SAVE A DOCUMENT .................................................................................. 68

26. SAP SCRIPTS – DELETE A DOCUMENT .............................................................................. 70

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27. SAP SCRIPTS − PRINT PREVIEW OF A DOCUMENT ............................................................ 71

28. SAP SCRIPTS − FORMAT CONVERSION ............................................................................. 73

Importing and Exporting RTF Files ....................................................................................................... 73

29. SAP SCRIPTS − RAW DATA INTERFACE.............................................................................. 75

30. SAP SCRIPTS − OUTPUT MODE SPOOL ............................................................................. 77

31. SAP SCRIPTS − OUTPUT MODE IDOC ................................................................................ 79

32. SAP SCRIPTS – CREATE A SCRIPT IN THE SYSTEM ............................................................. 80

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 1. SAP Scripts − Overview SAP Scripts

SAP Scripts is used to generate formatted documents and for external purposes to print
and transfer business documents. Formatted document contains logos, tables, and other
formatting objects. You can print preformatted text in forms which are not possible with
normal ABAP codes.

SAP Script consists of the following components:

 An Editor for entering and editing the lines of text that is called by application
transaction automatically.

 An Invisible Composer to prepare a text from an output device and provide

different formatting options for printing.

 To include Script components to your application program, it contains a

Programming Interface.

 Use Maintenance transactions to create styles and forms for print layout.

 A Central Database to store texts, forms, and other styles for printing format.

When a print program is executed, it retrieves the data from the form and database and
prints the output.

The following image shows the key components of SAP Scripting as mentioned above.

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To design a script, use Transaction code - SE71

Type the Transaction code in SAP Easy access and the following screen opens.

Enter the name of the program and click the save button to save it.

Create paragraphs, page, and windows, and assign the windows to the element. Create
the script and create a report to call the script.

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 2. SAP Scripts − Smart Forms SAP Scripts

SAP Smart Forms have been introduced by SAP to enhance the capabilities and key
features over SAP Scripts. In Smart Forms, you need minimum coding when you compare
it with SAP Scripts.

SAP recommends to replace SAP Script by Smart Forms as smart forms provide various
advantages over Scripting.

Following are the key differences between SAP Scripts and Smart Forms:

 You can create multiple page formats in smart forms which is not possible in case
of SAP scripts. All pages follow the same format in SAP script.

 You cannot create labels in smart forms.

 A smart form can be created without a window.

 When you activate a smart form, it generates a functional module. You can also
create background graphics using smart forms. However, it is not possible using
SAP Scripts.

 Maintenance cost is low for smart forms and it is heavy for SAP Scripts.

 Less time is required to generate smart forms as compared to SAP Scripts.

 Smart forms support web publishing in XML format. However, it is not supported
in SAP Script. Smart forms generates XML output, which can be viewed through
the web.

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 3. SAP Scripts − Form Painter SAP Scripts

The Form Painter tool provides the graphical layout of a SAPscript form and various
functionalities to manipulate the form. In the following example, we will create an invoice
form after copying its layout structure from a standard SAPscript form RVINVOICE01, and
display its layout by accessing the Form Painter tool.

Open the Form Painter. You may request the screen either by navigating the SAP menu or
by using the SE71 Transaction code.

Step 1: In the Form Painter, request screen, enter a name and language for a SAPscript
form in the Form and Language fields, respectively. Let’s enter 'RVINVOICE01' and 'EN'
respectively in these fields.

Step 2: Select the Page Layout radio button in the Subobjects group box as shown in the
above screenshot.

Step 3: Select Utilities -> Copy from Client to create a copy of the RVINVOICE01 form.

The 'Copy Forms between Clients' screen appears.

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Step 4: In the 'Copy Forms Between Clients' (following) screen, enter the original name
of the form, 'RVINVOICE01', in the Form Name field, the number of the source client '000'
in the Source Client field, and the name of the target form as 'ZINV_01' in the Target Form
field. Make sure that other settings remain unchanged.

Step 5: Click the Execute icon in the 'Copy Forms Between Clients' screen. The 'Create
Object Directory Entry' dialog box appears. Enter the Package name to save the object.
Click the Save icon.

The ZINV_01 form is copied from the RVINVOICE01 form and displayed in the 'Copy Forms
between Clients screen'.

Click the back icon twice and navigate back to the Form Painter: Request screen, which
contains the name of the copied form ZINV_01.

After clicking the Display button, the 'Form ZINV_01: Layout of Page FIRST' window and
the 'Form: Change Page Layout: ZINV_01' screen appears as shown in the following
screenshot.

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The 'Form ZINV_01: Layout of Page FIRST' window shows the initial layout of the form.
The layout of the form contains five windows: HEADER, ADDRESS, INFO, INFO1, and
MAIN. The description of these windows can be accessed in PC Editor.

For instance, by just selecting the MAIN window and clicking the Text icon in the 'Form:
Change Page Layout: ZINV_01' screen, you can view all the margin values.

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 4. SAP Scripts − Layout Set SAP Scripts

Layout set is a kind of program to output documents using a programming interface.

Layout set is a part of SAP Script and is used to define the layout of print pages and uses
text elements to supply the output block that can be called by a Print program. Layout set
itself doesn’t contain any data and selection of data for the document is done using the
print program.

When a print program is called, data from database is selected and passed to the layout
set. When a print program is executed, the document is printed.

Layout set contains the following elements:

Header
Layout set header contains the administrative information and also the settings for the
other components.

Paragraph
Paragraph provides all the information required to format a paragraph of text and fonts.
To create a Paragraph, click the Paragraph format as shown in the following screenshot.

Pages
When you feel your output is too long and it won’t fit in one page, you can create a new
page to print the remaining part. You can show the remaining part with different page
settings.

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To create a page, go to Pages Tab. Enter the page name and provide some description.

Page Window
When you have a full window of type MAIN, a page break is triggered by SAP Script
automatically and the remaining text of the output appears in the main window of the
subsequent page. Page windows of type MAIN have the same width throughout the layout
set.

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Character String
These are used to define font settings of the output text. You can override paragraph
settings for the specific words in a paragraph.

Windows
An output document can be organized onto pages using Windows. In Layout set, you have
the following types of Windows:

 Main: There is only one Main window which is created by default. This window can
flow over multiple pages.

 Constant: There can be multiple number of constant windows and each constant
window can be used once per page.

 Variable Window: The contents of variable windows are processed again for each
page, on which the window appears.

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 5. SAP Scripts − Print Program SAP Scripts

In SAP Scripts, Print Program is used to print the actual form and get the data from
database tables, choosing a form and print the text elements in a defined format. It
retrieves the data from the database and combines it with the user input, formats the data
and prints it.

All print programs and forms are stored in table TNAPR.

Different functional modules are used in Print Program. To start a print program,
OPEN_FORM functional module is used, and to end the program CLOSE_FORM functional
module is used.

OPEN_FORM: In Print Program, this function should be called first before any printing
can take place. You specify the name of the form and the print language.

CALL FUNCTION 'OPEN_FORM'

START_FORM: This function is called to use different forms with similar characteristics in
a single request.

CALL FUNCTION ’START_FORM’

WRITE_FORM: This function is used to write text in a window in the form using text
elements.

CALL FUNCTION ‘WRITE_FORM’

CONTROL_FORM: This function is used to insert SAP Script control commands in an ABAP
program.

CALL FUNCTION ‘CONTROL_FORM’

END_FORM: This function is called in the end and it has no exporting parameters.

CALL FUNCTION ‘END_FORM’

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CLOSE_FORM: To view the standard form and the standard Print program, run
Transaction Code: NACE

Enter Application Types and click the Output Type at the top.

In the following screenshot, you can see the Application name for the selected service.

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Print Program − Example

Following is a sample print program that creates an invoice with company-related
information such as customer data, date, flight booking, etc.

Section 1 - Get customer data

TABLES: zcustom, zbook, zpfli.
DATA: bookings like zbook...
select * from...
/In this section, you are reading the data from tables in database./

Section 2 - Open form

CALL FUNCTION 'OPEN_FORM'
EXPORTING
DEVICE = 'PRINTER'
FORM = 'EXAMPLE1'
DIALOG = 'X'
OPTIONS =
EXCEPTIONS
CANCELLED = 1
DEVICE = 2
FORM = 3
OTHERS = 11
/In this section, you are calling OPEN_FORM function module to initialize print
output./

In the above function module, the parameter -

 FORM shows the name of the form.

 DEVICE can be PRINTER (print using spool), TELEFAX (fax output) or a SCREEN
(output to screen)

 OPTIONS shows a structure of type ITCPO to control the various attributes - Print
preview, number of copies.

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Section 3 - Print table heading

CALL FUNCTION 'WRITE_FORM'
EXPORTING
ELEMENT = 'textelement’
TYPE = 'TOP'
WINDOW = 'MAIN'
FUNCTION = 'SET'
...
/In this section, you use WRITE_FORM function to output general text elements
and column heading/

 ELEMENT function module shows the ‘textelement’ to be printed and ‘WINDOW’

shows which window of the form to be printed.

 TYPE shows the output area of the window like- TOP, BOTTOM, or BODY.

 FUNCTION tells the text to be replaced, added or appended.

Section 4 - Print customer bookings

LOOP AT bookings WHERE
CALL FUNCTION 'WRITE_FORM'
EXPORTING
ELEMENT = 'BOOKING'
TYPE = 'BODY'
WINDOW = 'MAIN'
...
ENDLOOP
/In this section, text element BOOKING is used to output the bookings of a
customer from the loop from BOOKING table in database./

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Section 5 - Close form

CALL FUNCTION 'CLOSE_FORM'
IMPORTING
* RESULT =
EXCEPTIONS
UNOPENED = 1
OTHERS = 5
/To end the Print Program/

You call this function module in the end and it has no exporting parameter.

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 6. SAP Scripts − Creating a Window SAP Scripts

Once you create Pages, you can create a Window on the page. A single page can have
multiple windows. To create a window, you have to click the Windows tab.

Run the Transaction SE71 and go to Windows push button.

In the next window, it will show a screen list of windows in a page.

Each form has one window of type MAIN. Such a window is called the main window of the
form. For SAPscript forms, the main window has the following functions -

 You use it to control the page break.

 It contains the text body that can be used for multiple pages.

 It allows to fix text elements at the upper and lower margins of the allocated page
window.

 The text in the main window can extend over several pages. If the text fills one
page, the output continues in the window of the next and subsequent pages. You
can create max 99 MAIN window 00-98.

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Step 1: To create a new window, click the Edit option in menu bar -> Click on create
Element.

It will generate a popup.

Step 2: You have to enter the name of window and short description, the press enter.
Click the tick mark to create the Window.

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Step 3: Now to place the Window, you have to click Page Windows button. You will be
prompted to know where you want to place that window in the page.

Step 4: Click the Edit option on the menu bar, Edit -> Create Element.

You can also create a new window from the page layout. If you can’t see a Layout option
in SE71 Transaction, you have to enable form painter. To enable form painter, go to
Settings -> Form Painter.

You have to select Graphical Form Painter checkbox option.

Step 5: Once you select Graphical Form Painter, the Layout option will be available under
Transaction SE71. Click the Layout and Page Layout will open.

Using Layout, it gives a GUI editor which makes it easier to drag the window position.

By default, you can see the Main Window in the Layout.

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Step 6: To create a new window, you can right-click on Layout -> Create Window.

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Step 7: In the next screen, you have to enter the name of the Window.

 Enter Meaning
 Left Margin
 Right Margin

Step 8: To save this window, select the save option . A New window is created with
the name Window1.

To see the Text linked with Page window, go to Text element option at the top.

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 7. SAP Scripts − Output Area SAP Scripts

To output the text in the main window, or in the page window there are different output
areas that you can select.

 Upper margin (Top area of the main window)

 Bottom margin (Lower area of the main window)
 Body of main window (Area in between the top area and the lower margin)

Upper Margin
In the page layout, the top area always appears at the beginning of the main window. The
top area can be used to automatically output headings on the subsequent pages for tables
to cover multiple pages.

The output placed into the upper margin area using the print program is not formatted at
once, but stored internally in SAP script initially. Formatting occurs only as soon as the
print program writes text into the Body area. Variables are retrieved and replaced in that
moment as well.

The Body area of the main window is filled before the program reaches the definition part
of the upper margin. This definition is used as the top area for the subsequent page. You
can say that it is not possible to delete a heading in the Top area after writing text into
the Body area.

Bottom Margin
The Bottom margin comes at the end of the Main window. The Bottom area is defined for
the current page when you complete the output of the body area. If there is not enough
space left on the page, then the Bottom area text of the output is produced on the next
page of the page layout.

If the print program produces the output text to the Bottom area of the Main window, it
memorizes these lines for subsequent pages (just like Top lines). At the same time, the
composer processes these lines to determine the space the Bottom area requires and the
space left for the Body area. At this moment, it replaces the variables set in the Bottom
area for the current page.

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 8. SAP Scripts − Text Module SAP Scripts

A text module in SAPscript is created from an administrative information component in

the text header and actual text lines. The text header contains information about:

 Title of Text module

 Date and time of creation
 Last changes information
 Allocated Style
 Text Format

You use the text type - Text module of the text node - to refer to an existing text module
in the system. This allows you to easily use texts from the text modules in several forms.
In addition, it is not necessary to load the entire form description to maintain these texts.

Text modules can be used in two of the following ways –

Refer - This refers to the text module. The text then appears read-only in the PC editor
and is included when you print the form.

Copy - This is used to copy the text module. The system then copies the text of the module
and automatically converts the text node into an editable text element.

To manage application-specific form texts, applications define their own text objects with
subordinate text IDs using Transaction code SE75.

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To create text objects and text Id’s for application, select the Radio button and click
change.

To create text objects, click on Create button. You will be prompted to enter this
information. You can use Text object with text ID’s to enter general standard texts.

To maintain standard text, use Transaction code: SO10

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Text module can be used in Smart Forms as well. To create and change text module, use
transaction smart forms and select Text module as shown in the following screenshot.
Click the Create button.

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 9. SAP Scripts − Grouping Text SAP Scripts

In SAP Scripts, grouping text provides a better handling of the texts and also facilitates
control of internal processes in scripting. Text consists of text objects and text ID’s.

Text Object
Text object can be linked to objects in other business application and defines contextual
relation. Apart from this, text objects are also used to determine different processing
parameters. When you save a text module, it depends on the object if a text module
should be directly written to the text database or not.

Text objects and their respective attributes in SAP Script are defined in the TTXOB table.

Text ID
To differentiate between texts of an object, you need a grouping attribute that is called in
SAP Script and is known as Text Id. Text IDs are used to identify different texts describing
the same text object. Text IDs and their attributes must be defined in the TTXID table.

As one text is not enough for an object, to define several characteristics of an object you
need several texts which are identified by text IDs.

To manage application-specific form texts, applications define their own text objects with
subordinate text IDs using Transaction code SE75.

To create Text objects and Text Ids for application, select the Radio button and click
change.

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 10. SAP Scripts − Format Options SAP Scripts

In SAPscript, the text output format is controlled by paragraph formats or you can combine
text with styles. In the output format, you can use placeholders to create flexible data. In
SAPscript, the placeholders are called symbols and they are used to show the data that is
not added to the text until a later point.

These are used to format the output and all the symbols in the text gets replaced with the
actual current values. This replacement is done only in the output of the text module and
the original text module remains the same.

There are four kinds of symbols in SAPscript -

 System Symbols: Different type of system symbols can be retrieved from tables
- SAPSCRIPT, SYST, TTSXY. They are global variables and are retrieved from
system tables.

 Standard Symbols: They are predefined and maintained in TTDTG table. They
are based on language settings of script.

 Program Symbols: This represents the data from a database table or an internal
table. Print programs are used to provide necessary data for these symbols.

 Text Symbols: They are defined locally and is used to define recurring terms or
text fragments in the document.

Placeholder / Symbol Structure

Each symbol is presented with a name and call to a symbol is made in a line of text that
also contains the other text. These symbols are differentiated from the normal text, and
the call is performed so that it identifies a call to a symbol or to other section of the
module.

Following rules should be used while using symbols -

 You shouldn’t use blank characters in the name of a symbol.

 Always use ampersand ‘&’ immediately before and after the symbol.

 You shouldn’t use editor line break occurs between the symbols.

 Note that the symbol names are not case-sensitive and contains a maximum of
130 characters and only the first 32 characters are used to identify the symbol.

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Examples of Valid Symbols

&symbol&

&MY_symbol&

&DATE&

Examples of Invalid Symbols

&mysymbol - It doesn’t contain the closing character

&symbol(Z& - No closing parentheses

&my symbol& - In this, symbol name contains a space

&mysymbol)& - In this, name contains an invalid character

Common Symbols Used in SAPScript

Current Date &DATE&

Current Day Number &DAY&

Current Month Number &MONTH&

Current Year Number &YEAR&

Minutes Component of Current Time &MINUTES&

Seconds Component of Current Time &SECONDS&

Current Page Number &PAGE&

Output Length &symbol(length)&

Omitting the Leading Sign &symbol(S)&

Leading Sign to the Left &symbol(<)&

Leading Sign to the Right &symbol(>)&

Omitting Leading Zeros &symbol(Z)&

Space Compression &symbol(C)&

Number of Decimal Places &symbol(.N)&

Omitting the Separator for ‘Thousands’ &symbol(T)&

Specifying an Exponent for Floating Point &symbol(EN)&

Numbers

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 11. SAP Scripts − Output Types SAP Scripts

Using SAPscript, you can configure different output types like a printed form that you need
for internal use or an email message sent via email. You can also get output types in PDF
format or any other required format.

You can use different output types like printing a form, where when you select output type
Print Out, the document is printed. Similarly, you can select Fax, email, PDF as output
type. When you select Fax as the output type, a fax of the document is sent.

All the output types are stored in NAST table. To see the configured output type, you can
use Transaction code – NACE.

In the new screen, you have to select Application type: V1 for SALES, V3 for BILLING, E1
for Inbound Delivery, etc.

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In the following example, Purchase Order Application is selected. Now to see the
configured output types, click the Output types button at the top of the screen.

To see the output type in SAPscript, select any output format, click Processing Routines
on the left side of the screen as shown in the following screenshot. By going to the details,
you can find the exact output type for your SAPscript.

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You can see the following details for the configured output type and Form routine.

To check any document for output type, use Transaction code- VF03

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Select the billing document number and press Enter.

Select the Output under the menu Go to -> Header.

You can see the selected output types from the available list. Available options are -

 Print Output: To send the output in a Print form.

 Fax: To send the output to a Fax machine.

 External Send: To send the output to an external system.

 Telex: To send the output to teleprinters.

 EDI: To transfer data from one computer system to another by standardized

message formatting.

 Simple Mail: To send the output in email.

 Special Function: To perform any special function such as sending invoice, etc.

 Events: To trigger events from workflow to message control.

 Distribution: To send the output to applications in your distributed systems to

communicate with each other.

 Tasks: SAP Business Workflow.

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To control the print output of a document, you can pass different parameters with function
modules - PRINT_TEXT and OPEN_FORM. PRINT_TEXT function module is used to
prepare the text module specified in the parameters HEADER and LINES for an output
device and to output it. The output format for print is taken from the fields TDSTYLE and
TDFORM in the text header.

You can also use TDPREVIEW field to see the display on the screen in the print format.
There are various fields that you can use to control the print output.

TDPAGESLCT SAPscript: Select print page

TDPREVIEW SAPscript: Show print view

TDNOPREV SAPscript: Disable print view

TDNOPRINT SAPscript: Disable printing from within print view

TDTITLE SAPscript: Text for title line in the output selection screen

TDPROGRAM SAPscript: Program name for replacing symbols

TDTEST SAPscript: Test printout

TDIEXIT SAPscript: Return immediately after printing

TDGETOTF SAPscript: Return OTF table, no print output

TDSCRNPOS SAPscript: Display position of OTF on screen

TDDEST Spool: Name of the output device

TDPRINTE Spool: Name of the device type

TDCOPIES Spool: Number of copies

TDNEWID Spool: New request

TDIMMED Spool: Print request immediately

TDDELETE Spool: Delete request after printing

TDLIFETIME Spool: Retention time of the request

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TDDATASET Spool: Identification of the request

TDSUFFIX1 Spool: Suffix 1 of the request

TDSUFFIX2 Spool: Suffix 2 of the request

TDAUTORITY Spool: Authorization for a request

TDARMOD Spool: Archiving mode

TDCOVER Spool: Print cover page

TDCOVTITLE Spool: Cover page: Title text

TDRECEIVER Spool: Cover page: Recipient name

TDDIVISION Spool: Cover page: Division name

Key Function Modules

Following are the key function modules that can be used to control the print output -

TDPREVIEW
This is used to display the output on the screen before you take the printout. This function
module always creates a SPOOL request and it is not interpreted in background processing.

 ‘X’ - Print view wanted

 ‘ ‘ - No print view wanted

TDPAGESELECT
This function module can be used to select the pages to be printed in the print output. You
can select individual pages, or a range of pages, or you can also select combinations.
When you don’t select the page number field, all pages are printed.

Note that the page numbers here shows the physical pages of the SAPscript printout and
not the logical number in the form.

 2 - This prints an individual page number 2

 1-5 - This prints all the pages 1 to 5, including both the pages

 2- - This prints all the pages from page 2 to end

To combine these values, you can put a comma between these to use the combination. 2,
1-5, 2-

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TDTITLE
This function module is used to select the text for title line of print selection.

TDSCHEDULE
This function module is used to determine whether to send a SPOOL request immediately
or you want to print it at night.

 ‘IMM’ - To send the SPOOL request immediately

 ‘NIG’ - To send request during night

When no value is selected for this field, by default, the system takes it as IMM.

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Data formats are used to define style and forms and is also known as Interchange Text
Format (ITF). All the texts created using SAPscript has a specific data format. The data
format consists of two fields:

 Format Field
 Actual Line Contents

Certain elements for this ITF format are fixed, / for a new line.

ITF elements are used to define styles and forms. Even these attributes are not maintained
in ITF format. The composer prepares an ITF text for output that is converted into a format
that represents the print version and this is called Output Text Format (OTF).

Raw Data Output Format

To get the print output, these techniques can be used -

 SAPScript
 SmartForms
 PDF-based Print Forms

SAPScript allows you to use raw data output format where the output mode is defined in
script itself or in runtime in the print program. The preferred format to use here is Raw
Data Interface because of less overhead and compact spool files.

You have to select SAPscript formatting in RDI output mode.

When you compare SAPScript formatting with SmartForms and PDF-based print forms,
Smartforms are an advancement of SAPScript and are used to get XML-based raw data
output in XSF format. PDF-based Print Forms provide raw data output format known as
XFP with or without context evaluation.

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 14. SAP Scripts − Export SAP Scripts

SAPscript doesn’t provide version management so it is suggested to store each version of

your script as a file exported to the local system. In case, you want to copy a SAPscript
from one client to the other, you can use export/import or copy the option.

Export a File
To export a SAPscript to the local file, use table RSTXSCRP.

Following are the steps to export your SAPscript to the local file on the system that can be
changed later to meet the requirements.

Step 1: Run Transaction Code - SE38 and execute program RSTXSCRP

Step 2: Enter the program name and execute.

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Now you have to select the desired object type - Form / Style / Standard Text / Device
Type from the list.

Step 3: To export a SAP script locally, select Form.

Step 4: Select the Mode parameter. Here we will select Export as the mode parameter.

 Export means download to local file.

 Import means upload from local file.

Step 5: Enter the object name that you want to export.

The default export path is in the following format- C:\temp\********&&&&

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When you execute the report from the top icon, you will be prompted to select a location
to save the script on your local system.

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Import means to upload from a local file. When you want to get the Script copied from a
local file, you can use the Import option.

Import a File
To perform import of SAPscript from the local machine, run Transaction code: SE38.

Step 1: Execute program RSTXSCRP in Transaction Code SE38.

Step 2: Enter the program and execute.

Now you have to select the desired object type - Form / Style / Standard Text / Device
Type from the list.

Step 3: To export a SAP script locally, select Form.

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Step 4: Select the Mode parameter. Import means upload from the local file. Select Import
in the mode parameter.

Step 5: Enter the object name that you want to export.

Step 6: Enter the import path- C:\temp\********&&&&

Using the above method, you can copy SAPscript from one client 512 to client 500 using
the following steps:

 Step 1: Login to client 512.

 Step 2: Run the Transaction Code - SE38 or SA38 and execute the ABAP program:
RSTXSCRP

 Step 3: Enter the Mode Parameter: EXPORT and save the SAPScript locally on the
system.

To import the script –

 Step 1: Login to client 500.

 Step 2: Run the Transaction SE38 or SA38 and execute the ABAP program:
RSTXSCRP

 Step 3: Enter the Mode Parameter: IMPORT

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Other option to copy a script from one client to another client is by using the following
steps.

Step 1: Use Transaction Code SE71.

Step 2: Login to Client on which you want to perform a copy 500.

Step 3: Run Transaction code: SE71 -> Click on Utilities -> Copy from client

Step 4: Enter Source Form, Source Client, and Target Client.

Step 5: Click the Execute button.

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 16. SAP Scripts − Control Tables SAP Scripts

SAPscript contains various control table that are used to define definition of text objects,
definition of text IDs and their description.

To maintain Control tables, use Transaction Code: SE75

TTXOB Definition of the text objects

TTXOT Description of the text objects

TTXID Definition of the text IDs

TTXIT Description of the text IDs

Control Table - TTXOB

This table contains definition of all text objects supported by SAPscript. When you use
SAPscript function modules, you can process texts whose objects are stored in this table.
When an object is passed to function whose definition is not maintained in table TTXOB,
an exception object is triggered.

This table can be maintained using Transaction SE75.

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There are different parameters in the table -

 Line Width of Editor: This shows the maximum line width allowed for a text in
the editor.

 Default Style: When you create a new text module, the system automatically
allocates the style specified in this field.

 Default Form: When you create a new text module, the system proposes the form
specified in it.

 Text Format: This is used to determine the format of the text and as per the
format, the system calls the appropriate editor.

Control Table - TTXOT

This table contains the short description of text objects.

Control Table - TTXID

This table contains all the text IDs which are allocated to text objects and are supported
by SAPscript.

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Different parameters that are used in this table include -

 TDSHOWNAME: Displays the name of the text.

 TDTEXTTYPE: To determine the format of the text.

 TDKEYSTRUC: You can store the name of a structure which describes the key
structure of the name field of the text module.

 TDOBLIGAT: (Reserve)

 TDDELPROT: (Reserve)

 TDINCLRES: (Reserve)

 TDINCLID: To include the contents of a second text into the first text.

To see the definition of test IDs for object, select any object and click on Text IDs. You
can see all the above parameters for each text ID.

Control table - TTXIT

This table contains the short description of text IDs.

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 17. SAP Scripts − Text & Graphics SAP Scripts

You can also add graphics to SAPscript - logo, images, etc. To use graphics in script, you
need to import them to R/3 system. This can be done using Transaction code SE78 or you
can also run report RSTXLDMC.

You have to enter the name of the graph and the image type supported is .tmp file or
.bmp file. You can directly import images to R/3 system which are in .tif format, as they
are stored as standard text and can be included in SAPscript using ‘Include’ statement.

To use the images which are not in .tif format, you need to convert them to this format.

Add Graphs to SAPscript

Step 1: Run Transaction Code SE78.

Step 2: Expand the tree and from the left side select bitmap image. Click the Import
button.

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Step 3: To select .bmp image, click the arrow as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 4: Once you select the file, enter the name of graph and description. Click the
continue button.

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Step 5: Click the Preview button on the application toolbar.

You can see a picture logo as shown in the following screenshot.

This is how you can add logos, images to SAP system.

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 18. SAP Scripts − Control Commands SAP Scripts

In SAPscript, you can use control commands to control the output formatting handled
by the SAPscript composer. The composer converts the text from the form displayed in
the editor to the form used for printing.

Control commands are placed in the text editor in the same way as the normal line of text.
Following structure is used for control commands -

 Control commands are entered in paragraph format /:

 You should enter only one control command in each line.
 Control commands are entered in text.
 You have to ensure that Control Command and its parameters doesn’t take more
than one line.

 When a control command contains an error, the line containing the control
command is considered as the comment line and it is not printed.

Following are the common Control commands that can be used in SAPscript -

Explicit Page Break: NEW-PAGE

You can use this control command to force a page break in the text at any point.

Example
/: NEW-PAGE [page_name]

Note that there shouldn’t be any implicit page break occurrences within the blank lines,
otherwise an unexpected blank page may be printed.

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Preventing Page Breaks: PROTECT

With this page protect control command, you can print a complete paragraph on one page.

Main Window: NEW-WINDOW

This control command is used when one of the main window fills up. Then, the next main
window on that page is taken.

Following are some other common Control commands that you can use in SAPscript for
controlling the output:

 SET DATE MASK: To format the Date Fields

 DEFINE: To assign a Value to a Text Symbol
 SET TIME MASK: To format Time Fields
 SET COUNTRY: Country Dependent Formatting
 SET SIGN: To position the Leading Sign
 RESET: To initialize Numbered Paragraphs
 TOP: To set a Header Text in the Main Window
 BOTTOM: To set a Footer Text in the Main Window
 IF: To add a conditional Text
 STYLE: To change the Style
 INCLUDE: To include other texts

Example
INCLUDE MYTEXT OBJECT TEXT ID ST

INCLUDE name OBJECT name ID name PARAGRAPH name LANGUAGE name

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 19. SAP Scripts − Copy Scripts SAP Scripts

In SAP system, you can copy scripts to the local system or from one client to another
client. As SAPscript does not provide version management feature, it is required to save
the scripts locally.

To copy a script from one client to another client, use Transaction Code SE71.

Step 1: Login to Client on which you want to perform a copy 500

Step 2: Run T-code: SE71 - Click on Utilities -> Copy from client

Step 3: Enter Source Form, Source Client, Target Client.

Step 4: Click Execute.

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If the source form is not available in client, you will see a message as shown in the
following screenshot saying that Form test is not available in client xxx.

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 20. SAP Scripts - Standard Text SAP Scripts

You can use standard texts in SAP to display the database stored value on the output
document and this can be done using Transaction Code: SO10

Example
Let us say you want to print terms and conditions on every invoice and you want each
invoice to contain these legal terms and conditions directly. You can create a Standard
text and use that in the Invoice.

Step 1: Run Transaction SO10

You have different text options. This can be checked using the find option.

Step 2: Select Standard text and click Enter by clicking the green tick mark.

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Step 3: To select any Text, click on Execute. You will see a list of all standard texts.

Step 4: Select any of the following from the list. Here we have selected FI_CASH_SI and
click the Display option.

You can see the following text appear by default.

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Step 5: You have to add this to your script.

Signed
Enclosures
Prepared Approved Confirmed
Receipts Expenditures
&uline(130)&

&rfcash-anzsb(Z)& &Rfcash-anzhb(Z)&

Step 6: Select the form that you want to change. Select and click the change option at
the bottom. Then click on Go to -> Change Editor.

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Step 7: Enter the text name, object Id, language, etc.

In a similar way, you can insert text symbols, system symbols, documentation, hypertext
using the insert option at the top of the screen.

Using SO10 Transaction, you can also create your own standard text and give it a name
and later can use it in a script.

You can write something and save it as standard text.

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You can directly include this in your form. Open the form and click the Change button.
Click Go to -> Change Editor.

Using control commands, you can insert standard text created previously in your script.

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System Symbols
System symbols are system maintained and their value is provided by the system. Some
examples of system symbols are time, date, hours, minutes, seconds, page, etc.

Standard Symbols
You can maintain standard symbols using Transaction SM30. Examples of standard
symbols are thank you, sincerely, etc. They are stored in table TTDG.

Program Symbols
They are placeholders for database fields and also act as global program symbols in your
Print program.

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 21. SAP Scripts − Word Processing SAP Scripts

As per requirement, you can use different editors to create your texts. You can use
Microsoft Word editor, line editor, or PC editor as per the system configuration and
platform. All these editors are used for word processing and to create and edit texts. You
can use these editors for printing form and for creating documents.

PC Editor
PC editor is used to create and edit text and they are downward compatible. You can use
any text that has been created with Line editor.

When you have Microsoft editor installed, you can switch to PC editor when Line editor is
not available. If MS Word editor is not installed, you can switch between PC editor and
Line editor. Word Processing using PC editor is similar to the common method of creating
a word document in word processing.

Following functions can be used for word processing in PC editor:

 You can directly allocate paragraphs and texts.

 You can cut/paste the text directly.

 Using PC editor, you can perform integrated error check to validate the syntax.

 You can use special text structure and display of character format like bold font,
different font sizes, etc.

By default, PC editor is called in each application in SAP system. To open Line editor, click
Go to -> Change Editor.

Line Editor
Line editor is used to create and edit text to print standard forms like standard letters or
creating documents like sales order, invoice etc. for printing.

As mentioned, when you have Microsoft editor installed, you can switch to PC editor when
line editor is not available. If MS Word editor is not installed, you can switch between PC
editor and Line editor. When you create any text in PC editor, the system changes the
format and style, and displays the text accordingly.

To switch to any other editor from Line editor, Go to -> Change Editor.

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Microsoft Word Editor

Microsoft word editor is used to create and edit text to print standard forms like standard
letters or creating documents like sales order, invoice, etc. for printing. This editor is only
available for Windows 200x and Windows XP.

You can use Microsoft Word editor in all the languages that are supported by SAP in a
Unicode system. In non-Unicode system, this editor is available only for Hebrew.

MS word editor can be used to open text that are created in other editor and provide
downward compatibility.

To select the language for MS Word editor, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and
Language Options -> Keyboard and Language.

You can also use languages which are not included in SAP system and you need to activate
these languages in MS Office language options.

Go to Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office Tools -> Microsoft Office ->
Language Settings.

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Select the language that you want to add. You can select any language from the list and
click the Add button.

To switch to any other editor, Go to > Change Editor.

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Setting Microsoft Word as Editor for SAPscript

To set MS Word as editor, you should have Microsoft Office 2000 or the newer version. It
should be installed and activated. You can use MS Word as editor for both Unicode and
non-Unicode system. You should set the security level as medium and you should install
all add-ins and accept the templates.

Step 1: To define the security level, go to Tools -> Macros -> Security.

Step 2: To enable Microsoft Editor in your system, call Transaction i18N

Step 3: Go to i18N customizing option, and select Microsoft Word Editor.

Step 4: If i18N customizing is not available in your system, you can select the program
RSCPINST in Transaction SE38 to set MS Word as editor.

Step 5: Call Transaction SE38 and enter the program in the following screen.

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Step 6: Enter the program name and Press F8 to move to the new screen. Click on Go to
-> Set MS Word as Editor as shown in the following screenshot.

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 22. SAP Scripts − Create a Document SAP Scripts

In SAP system, you can also create and change a document manually if your SAP system
doesn’t call the editor. To create a document, you have to follow the below path:

Tools -> SAP Script -> Standard Text or call Transaction SO10

You have to enter the following details to create a document:

Text name
This shows the name of the document. You can use letters, numbers, spaces, and special
characters for the name. However, no special characters like * are not allowed.

Text ID
This defines the application to which the document belongs. Standard texts are documents
that are not specific to any SAP application, or system texts and SAP applications use their
own text IDs for application-specific documents.

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Language
This shows the language under which your document should be stored in the system.

You can set various options in a document. It works like a Word document. To define the
properties of a document, go to options.

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In SAP Script, using SO10 transaction you can update the existing standard text in SAP
system. You can use the Change option to make changes to an existing document or the
display option to display a document. Click the Allow button in the Warning window.

You can see the document is opened in Change mode. You can copy the following text or
make changes directly in the system.

Report of the ABC Inc. board meeting of the 28.08.95 --------------------------

--------------------------------------------- Main Topic: Investment in a new
production plant in Mexico Participants: Mr. Walther Chief (CEO)
Mr. Stephan Glad (COO) Mr. Alex Miller (CFO) Mr.
Burt Sales (Director Sales) Mr. Paul Choice (Director
Marketing) --------------------------------------------------------------------
--- The plant shall be used for the production of all potato snacks for the
American market. Cost reduction, compared with American production, will be
more than 35%. The whole investment will be $ 230m within two years. The
participants agreed to start plant construction as soon as possible because
Japanese companies, producing with very low costs in Korea, will enter next
year our home market.

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There are various word functions that you can use to make changes to the document.
Once the document is changed, it will be saved to the default location.

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It is also possible to search documents in SAP system. You can perform a search based on
various parameters such as text Id, text name, language or based on the author name.

To perform a search, go to Tools -> SAPscript -> Standard text or call Transaction SO10

Enter the Standard Text and click Find. It will open the dialog window and you can select
from the following search criteria.

 Text Name
 Text ID
 Language
 Author

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 25. SAP Scripts − Save a Document SAP Scripts

When you save a document in the SAP system, it is stored in SAP database. Using the find
option, you can see a list of all the documents in the database. You can view the predefined
document and also the customized documents that are created in the system.

To save a document, go to Text -> Save.

Let us say we have opened the following document for editing and made changes to the
document.

To save the document, navigate to Text option at the top -> Save.

You can also maintain different versions of a document. Also note that documents are not
automatically saved and you should save a long document periodically. If you log off from
SAP system without saving a document, then the document is lost.

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To maintain a version of the document, click Save as and enter the text name, the text
ID, and the language.

To view the version, you can find the document in the list of available documents under
Find option.

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 26. SAP Scripts – Delete a Document SAP Scripts

It is possible to delete a document in SAP system. If you want to remove a document,

navigate to SAPScript -> Standard Text -> Enter the Text name and click Change.

The document will open in editor. To delete the document, go to Text -> Delete -> Yes.

You will get a message - The document has been deleted. You can’t restore a deleted document in
SAP system.

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27. SAP Scripts − Print Preview of a Document SAP Scripts

In SAP Script, it is also possible to preview a document before printing. To perform Print
Preview of the document, go to Text -> Print Preview.

We have opened a document with the following text:

Signed
Enclosures
Prepared Approved Confirmed
Receipts Expenditures
&uline(130)&

&rfcash-anzsb(Z)& &Rfcash-anzhb(Z)&

When you go to Text -> Print Preview, it will show you the printing format of the document.
You can select various Print Preview options.

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You can select a particular page for Print Preview or printing. When Print Preview is
selected from the option, you can see a preview of the existing document as seen in the
following screenshot.

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 28. SAP Scripts − Format Conversion SAP Scripts

SAPscript are stored in Interchange Text Format (ITF) and you can convert them to Rich
Text Format (RTF) and ASCII format using Word processors. To perform the format
conversion to convert ITF to RTF format, you need to execute a format conversion from
document template to SAP Script paragraph.

SAPscript editor allows you to perform the following format conversions -

 You can export texts in format RTF, ASCII, HTML to a local file on the system.
 You can also import the local files in formats – RTF, ITF and ASCII.

Importing and Exporting RTF Files

While exporting a RTF file, one paragraph or a character format can be mapped to exactly
one paragraph or character style.

While importing RTF files, it can be divided into two parts – One-paragraph format is
exactly mapped to one paragraph script format and one-character format can be mapped
up to four SAP Script character style.

To perform RTF export, go to Text -> Download.

You have to choose Rich Text Format (RTF) and click Transfer -> Enter complete file path,
the document template, and the form or style and select Transfer.

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To perform RTF import, go to Text -> Upload.

Select Rich Text Format (RTF) and choose Transfer -> Select the complete file path and
the document template. Then, choose Transfer.

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 29. SAP Scripts − Raw Data Interface SAP Scripts

Using Raw Data Interface in SAP Scripting, allows you to connect to external text
management systems. This interface contains all the data from SAP Script forms in SAP
system but doesn’t contain any layout information such as font size, color, type, etc. The
external system to which you are connected via interface manages the layout and performs
data management.

Using Raw Data Interface, you can easily connect to an external system but there is no
mechanism to verify if the form is printed correctly in the external system and the layout
is managed.

To enable Raw Data interface (RDI) for external system integration, following settings
have to be performed in SAP system -

 Output Device: To perform RDI integration, there should be at least one output
device that needs to be configured for external printing.

 Printing to External System via RDI: You can flag a form for external printing
in SAP system and if you don’t select this customizing setting, application settings
are applied on the forms.

 Form Definition in External System: For each form that is to be printed in the
external text system, you have to define the form definition in the external text
system.

 Print Status Management: All the forms that you print via RDI to an external
system, you need to maintain the print status of all the documents with
unsuccessful print forms.

Table name STXRDID is used to maintain all the information regarding SAPscript RDI.
You can view the information in this table using Transaction Code: SE11 or SE80.

This is Transaction Code: SE11. Mention the database table name and click Display.

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This is Transaction code: SE80. Enter the table name and click Execute.

Raw Data Interface Output Formats

To get the print output, these techniques can be used -

 SAPScript
 SmartForms
 PDF-based Print Forms

SAPScript allows you to use raw data output format where the output mode is defined in
the script itself or in runtime in the print program. The preferred format to use here is RDI
because of less overhead and compact spool files.

You have to select SAPscript formatting in RDI output mode.

When you compare SAPScript formatting with SmartForms and PDF based print forms,
Smartforms are advancement of SAPScript and are used to get XML based raw data output
in XSF format. PDF based print forms provides raw data output format known as XFP
with or without context evaluation.

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 30. SAP Scripts − Output Mode Spool SAP Scripts

RDI output format consists of four types of record values. Each record contains a flag that
tells the record type - Header (H), Data (D), Sort (S) and Control (C).

 Header Record
 Data Record
 Sort Record
 Control Record

Header Record
Each form that you send to an external text system for print, it starts with a flag - H that
shows the Header record structure. Header part of the document contains the following
fields -

 Form name
 Document number
 RDI version
 Language
 Device type
 Client and many other fields in Header Record structure

Sort Record
This field comes after the sort field and is represented by flag - S. Each form contains 10
internal and 5 external sort fields, 32-characters length for each field.

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Data Record
This comes after the sort record and contains a flag - D that shows the data record
structure. It contains the following fields:

 Form window name

 Start of the next main window
 Name of the text element
 Start of the text element
 Symbol name to identify symbol in the text element
 Value of the symbol

Control Record
Each document contains a control record represented by flag - C and is used to interpret
the data in the form. Control Record provides the following details -

 Code Page and Language Information − When you use an insert statement to
add a text in other language, the system adds the control record that contains Code
Page and Language to write the data record. For code Page - CODEPAGE keyword
is used and for Language - LANGUAGE keyword is used.

Example: CCODEPAGE 1000 LANGUAGE DE

 Page Name − Using the control record, when you start a new page you add a
control record to specify the page name. Keyword used to specify page name -
PAGENAME.

Example: CPAGENAME SECOND

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 31. SAP Scripts − Output Mode IDOC SAP Scripts

IDOC stands for Intermediate Document and is used to transfer the documents/forms
for printing from SAP to other system. When this output method is used, the structure of
Header, Sort, Data, and Control record remains the same, however, the flags - H, S, D,
and C go missing. There is a separate segment that is used for Sort, Data, and Control -
E1RDI_BODY and this segment comes before the Control record.

The header segment in E1RDI_BODY doesn’t contain any document number and
CLOSE_FORM function module returns the document number.

When you use function modules START_FORM and END_FORM to print multiple
documents in a single request, a single IDOC is created and the status of IDOC is set to
30.

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32. SAP Scripts – Create a Script in the System SAP Scripts

To start a script, you have to run Transaction SE71 and this will open the Form Painter.

In the Form Painter, request screen, enter a name and language for a SAPscript form in
the Form and Language fields, respectively. Let’s enter 'RVINVOICE01' and 'EN'
respectively in these fields.

Paragraph provides all the information required to format a paragraph of text and fonts.
To create a Paragraph, click the Paragraph Formats tab as shown in the following
screenshot.

Enter the left margin, right margin, alignment and line spacing to define the Paragraph
format.

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Click the Character Formats tab to enter character format and meaning as shown in the
following screenshot.

Enter the following settings for format option -

 Format
 Meaning
 Size

Then, you have to define Layout of the document. Click the Layout tab to design the
window.

Using Layout, gives a GUI editor where you can drag the window position and it is easy to
use.

By default, you can see the Main Window in the Layout. To create a new window, you can
right-click on Layout -> Create Window as seen in the following screenshot.

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You can also add graph/logo to the layout part. Go to the Graph button next to Window
tab and enter the details.

To make an element on the respective window, click the Edit text button.

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You can define a driver program under Transaction SE38 to call this script. Use function
modules to define the calling program -

 START_FORM
 WRITE_FORM
 END_FORM
 CLOSE_FORM

This is how you can develop a script and add multiple windows and define the paragraph
and layout of the form.

Form OPEN_FORM
CALL FUNCTION 'OPEN_FORM'
EXPORTING
Form = 'FormName'
Endform “OPEN_FORM

Form START_FORM
CALL FUNCTION 'START_FORM'
EXPORTING
Form = 'FormName'.
Endform “START_FORM

CALL FUNCTION 'WRITE_FORM'

EXPORTING
Window = 'GRAPHNAME’

CALL FUNCTION 'WRITE_FORM'

EXPORTING
Element = 'ELEMENTNAME'
FUNCTION = 'SET'
TYPE = 'BODY'
Window = 'MAIN’
endform. " WRITE_FORM

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CALL FUNCTION 'END_FORM'

IMPORTING
RESULT =
EXCEPTIONS
UNOPENED = 1
OTHERS = 5
endform. " END_FORM

CALL FUNCTION 'CLOSE_FORM'

IMPORTING
RESULT =
EXCEPTIONS
UNOPENED = 1
OTHERS = 5
endform. "CLOSE-FORM

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