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Template Designer: Create Automatic PDF Documents for Attachment or Print Purpose

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Summary Template designer, a tool available in SAP CRM from version 5.2, can be used to create Microsoft Word or PDF document template which leverage Webservice to create Word or PDF document automatically in a predefined layout with desired data from a specific transaction. The document can be attached automatically to any transaction or can be used for print purpose.

Author: Arkopaul Sarkar

Company: Capgemini Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.

Created on: 15 April 2009

Author Bio

Arkopaul is a Consultant working with Capgemini consulting India Pvt Ltd. He has ample interast in Service oriented architecture, ADOBE product integration with SAP and CRM.

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Table of Contents Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................3

System Requirement.......................................................................................................................................3 Webservice .....................................................................................................................................................3

Testing ..............................................................................................................................................................10 Related Content................................................................................................................................................13 Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................14



Introduction

Template Designer is a tool available in SAP CRM from version 5.2. This tool leverages Webservice to create document template. Document templates can be either a Microsoft Word document or a PDF type document. The Document template has a predefined layout and the layout is filled by data fetched by Webservice from CRM system at runtime and the final output is displayed in Adobe Acrobat or MS Word. The final output can be attached to any object like opportunity, activity or sales contract as attached document and later used to send as an attachment via e-mail or to simply print as a form.

The scope of this article is to discuss the procedure to create PDF type document template through template designer.

System Requirement

For Adobe Integration, you require:

• Adobe Reader on all clients

• Adobe Lifecycle Designer for Designers Machine (included with SAP GUI)

• SAP CRM 5.2 or above

Webservice

The data rendered in the document template is fetched by Webservice. Webservice tool is available in CRM Web UI to create Webservice for a business object in four easily navigable steps. The tool can be found under Service Professional role and can be accessed from the Service Operations work center. In this article we cite the transaction business activity, which we will build the document template for. As we need to display the activity data in the document template, we must have one Webservice for reading the activity data.

We create the Webservice in the following four steps by Webservice tool.

Don’t forget to make the Webservice productive after activating it.



Process steps

1. Login to your Web UI portal and go to template designer.

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3. Click on New as marked in the above picture and you will be presented with the following screen.

4. Choose File Type as Adobe XML From File from the drop-down menu.



5. Define the Name for your document template and Description.

6. Choose Object Type from F4 help. In this case it is BUS2000126 for Business Activity.



7. Choose the Webservice name from F4 help.

8. Now click the button Download Schema and save the XML document in your workstation when

prompted.



9. Now open Adobe Livecycle Designer installed in your workstation. Create a new Form layout and then create a new data connection from File → New Data Connection.

10. This will present a wizard where we choose XML Schema as the data source and then in the next

screen select the XML schema file from workstation. Remember this document we downloaded from template designer. You will notice that the Webservice method is selected automatically as Data Root Element. If there are multiple methods you can choose your desired one from the drop-down menu. Don’t forget t check the Embed XML Schema checkbox.

11. Upon finishing the wizard a data connection is automatically created in the data view. Now we design our form as per our design requirement. We also bind the fields, where we need to display activity data to be displayed in the form, to the corresponding fields in the data connection. We used a simple Webservice to fetch activity objectID, description, location and priority. You can complex data



and even tables for item data through your Webservice.

12. Now we save the form with property Adobe XML Form File as the Save as type and .xdp as the

Extension in your workstation.

13. Now we go back to the template designer at the point where we left it and click on the Start Designer button. This will open the Upload template to CRM field where we browse and mention the path for the .XDP file we saved from Adobe Livecycle Designer and click on the Upload button beside it to upload the template.

If the upload is successful we get a success message. In the search screen of template designer you can find your template.



Testing Now when our document template is ready for business object type BUS2000126 (Business Activity), we can try to attach it as document in one activity. You can access the document template by clicking the With Template in Attachment section of the activity.



Whenever you will select your document template (in this case Test_docact) the form will open in acrobat reader (embedded in Internet browser) with all the required data of the particular activity.

You can take a print out of this form from the print functionality of Acrobat Reader or attach it to the activity. To attach it simply close the browser along with Acrobat Reader. You will get a success message that your document has been saved successfully and can see the document in the Attachment section of the particular activity.



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