Working with Adobe offline infrastructure
In this recipe, we will see the usage of the Adobe offline infrastructure. The Adobe offline infrastructure allows you to process user-filled PDF forms (received by e-mail), and then extract data from it and update in the SAP database. It allows you to implement offline interactive scenario when you have the user to fill the PDF form offline and then send back to you at a given e-mail address.
The inbound processing of the form sent via e-mail requires a configuration setting in transaction SO50
(Exit Rules for Inbound Processing). In our context, it lets us specify how the received PDF form attachment at a given e-mail address is to be handled. The generic main inbound handler class CL_FP_INBOUND_HANDLER
should be entered in the Exit Name field for the receiving e-mail address.
Once an e-mail is received, the PDF attachment is forwarded for processing to the generic inbound handler, which retrieves the entered data and then calls the application inbound...