Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-BMT-OM (Application Component) Organizational Management⤷
SP02 (Package) HR: Object Maintenance (Basis)
Basic Data
| Data Element | HRN_PFORM |
| Short Description | Form Name (Printout) |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | TDFORM | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 16 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 16 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | ||
| Search Help: Parameters | ||
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| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Form |
| Medium | 18 | Form (printout) |
| Long | 20 | Form (printout) |
| Heading | 16 | Form (printout) |
Documentation
Definition
Name of a form. The name of a form may have a maximum of 16 alphanumeric characters, consisting of block letters and digits. The name must begin with a letter.
Forms in SAPscript help you to create pages. A form is made up of a number of different elements that serve to control the layout of the individual pages and in addition, provide structure information for the texts on the pages.
For text editing to take place, the text must be assigned a form. This is done via menu selection in the SAPscript Standard Text Editor. The system displays a list of all existing forms from which the user selects one.
Form definition comprises the following elements:
Header data:
This is general information about the form such as the name of the user who created the form, a short text describing the form, and global control data such as the font used and page layout.
Paragraphs:
Paragraphs are the actual creation entities in SAPscript. Every text entered in the editor consists of a number of different paragraphs. The start of a paragraph is indicated by a paragraph marker in the left column of the editor. The names and attributes of the paragraphs are defined in the form.
Paragraph attributes can be, for example, the text alignment or justification, line spaces, or the font used.
Character strings:
Character strings are structure elements that affect a text block in a paragraph. They are inserted in the running text. The start of a text block is indicated by the character string <XX>, and the end by the character string </>. XX here stands for the name of the character string defined in the form.
Windows:
Windows are logical entities that have no physical attributes initially. They have a name that indicates the purpose of the text to be entered in the window such as address window, header window and so on.
Each window is assigned to a window type. The most important type is the main window. This is where the main text of the document is entered.The main window text can extend over a number of pages. The text in the other window types, on the other hand, may not extend beyond the window on one page.
Pages:
The page or pages contained in the form are defined here. The attributes of a page include the name of the next page, and the type of pagination. By specifying the next page and defining the first page of the form, the user determines the page sequence.
Page window:
A page window is created by specifying the position and size of a form window on a form page. The page window describes the position and length of a window on any page of the form, in other words, it defines the area of a form in which text can be output.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20010130 |
| SAP Release Created in |
