![]() I was totally wrong.Ī little background, for reference, before I get to the case notes. In other words, I thought I was halfway there because I had some code half-working. Then I looked at Python packages I had used previously and figured that tool box just needed to be updated. And the database connectivity would be harder to manage than I needed. While that would probably produce the desired results, first, I had no budget, and second, what kind of challenge would that be? I looked at a few packages in Perl and quickly concluded I could use it but it would be a piece of work difficult to maintain. When I started investigating how to produce the fill-in-the-blank form, most of my peers suggested buying the deluxe package from the manufacturer. I am sure there are other variations and missing persons forms that I have omitted here but moving on. And one where you can check the boxes and fill in letters and numbers then send it along, like a tax form. One you generate from a source document or fancy coding, but cannot be changed by the marks, er, rubes, er, customers. One you scan and it is only a mug-shot kind of fuzzy image. I’ll start with more of the “why” and “how”, as I explain it to my colleagues at the senior art center. The case that follows is not SAP database-specific but it is being shared in this community space because (1) the techniques involved are database-agnostic, and (2) when I was on the force a couple decades ago I got all hopped up about a collaboration between SAP and Adobe to produce universal (I mean PDF) output forms, only to learn there was a per-page license cost, or a similar restriction that put that bright idea into the bottom drawer, behind the office bottle. The objective–produce fill-in forms from live database calls. With a particular style that I am slowly coming to grips with. Not the sideshow snake charmer kind, but the open source one where you do it yourself. Where I left off was a database hint that I would be ramping up python. I sat in my temporary office space, listening to the slight hum of the electric ceiling fan stirring the page dumps, creating leaf blocks that would not chain. ![]() The kind where codes find listless bugs and effortlessly stomp them to the core. Check the tags below for links to prior ABAP Detective yarns) (Disclaimer: my title is ABAP Detective but there is no ABAP code in this post. ![]()
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