Comparing SmartForms to SAPscript

Date Published: 03 JAN 2003

About the White Paper: With the release of SAP 4.6C a revolutionary change has been introduced with the new Document creation tool, "Smart Forms". SAPscript was based on the mainframe product, DCF (Document Composition Format) from the 1980s. Smart Forms on the other hand is an object driven Document Creation tool that will become the new order of Document Handling within SAP. Although SAPscript has been evolving over the years it has always been constrained in functionality. Customers in the Internet enabled world of today need Documents that facilitate the BtoB nature of Transaction Handling taking full advantage of the Internet medium. This article will contrast the two Document Creation tools to help the Reader identify the difference between the two and address two significant questions Companies are asking. One: Do we utilize the functionality of Smart Forms by migrating the current SAPscript Infrastructure to Smart Forms? Two: For new Documents do we customize or create a Smart Forms solution or customize and create a SAPscript solution?

Author:

Keith Osberg

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