Components of Smartforms

• There are two main nodes in Smartforms.

1. Global Settings.
2. Pages and Windows.

Global settings:

• It is used to provide the basic settings for the  smartform.
• Components of Global Settings.

1. Form Attributes
2. Form interface
3. Global definition

Form Attributes :

• It specifies the general attributes like who created,Date,time, package,translate options, default smartstyle, Page format (DINA4/DINA5).

Form interface :

• It acts as a mediator between a driver program and a smartforms.
• The main functionality of form interface is, it will import the parameters which are exported by driver program.
• The parameters can be variables, work areas, internal tables..etc.

Global definition:

• It will contain the variables to be used within the smart form.
• We can define variables, user defined data types, field symbols, initialization code,Subroutine, currency/quantity fields.
• It is mainly used for declaring or defining the above variables.

Pages and windows

• This will contain all the pages and the windows, which are used in the smartform.
• By default, a page will be created by name %page1.
• By default, a window will be created by name 'Main' under the page1.
• For each page, we need to specify the next page.

Page

• It is used to define the layout of a smartform.
• We can have different pages with different layouts.

Window

• It is used to display information or text at a particular place on a page.

Graphic

• It is used to display logos or images on the smartforms.

Address

• It is used to display the address of customer or vendor or employee, organization address , workplace address etc.
• Just provide address no, it will automatically display the address as per the country formats.

Nodes under the window

Text

• It is used to display the information or text in a window. 

Table

• It is used to display the information in the form of table.
• When ever we create table by default HEADER, MAIN AREA, FOOTER will be displayed.
• The main functionality of a table is, it expands automatically depending on the internal table data.
• We need to provide the name of the internal table for a table.

Template

• Template is also like a table which does not expand. That means it will have fixed number of rows and columns.

Program lines

• It is used to write some lines of ABAP code.