Yesterday i talked a little about the design change I needed to use in order to display my PDF output of a sapscript/smartform from SAP. Well, today I took the next step of testing my changes in my newer systems (EHP7 this time). Well, I found some rather interesting differences. For the purposes of Renovation, I’m going to leave it as it is, but these are some fun things to know.
In my ECC 6.0 system, I added the InteractiveForm Element. If I didn’t enable the element, it would just popup the download button and present me an empty window. No big deal, it was easy enough to work with.
When I did the same thing in EHP7, it now shows the form in the window, and allows me to scroll, and even gives me the minimum buttons to save and zoom in. This is much nicer.
Now, something to keep in mind. If you enable the element, it will attempt to use Adobe Reader for the browser. This is fine as long as you aren’t using the new Edge Browser. Since Adobe Reader can’t work in it, it will just give you an error and not show your form. For me, to keep it as universal as possible, I’m NOT enabling the element, and it seems to work just fine for all the browsers.
There’s your development tidbit for the day… thanks for reading,
Mike