SENDING SMART FORMS IN THE FORM

OF HTML FORMAT.
Yeah there are already documents available on this topic. Only reason why i am posting this document is the
difference in the code. There are some classes availabe, which will be very useful in the process of sending
smart forms in the HTML format.
this report program will give you an idea on how to convert smart form into html format and send it as an email
along with the images(if smart form consists any ).
There is no need of manipulating much on images content. All we need to do is just covert the image into
binary content. There is a class in SAP CRM
cl_crm_email_data , which has one method send_email, which will help us to make this process quite easy.
We can easily embed the images in to the email content. Observe this class closely, may be you can get more
ideas.
Eventhough , i used appropriate comments in the program. It would be better if i tell you some importants
points here only. There is some piece of code in the report program regarding image maniplation. the
basic logic is , if there is one image in the smart form, then there will be one img tag in the converted html
output. This img tag will have one attribute called 'src'. The one possible value for this attribute will be like
this"cid:xxxxxx" .here 'xxxxxx' is image name.
This image name and the value for content id, which we will send to one internal table(see the report
program) , should be same. This will help the email client to find out the embedded image in the email.
i have written this program assuming that smart form will have only one image.you can modify it according to
your requirements. i hope users already have some basic knowledge on XSF format. please refere to below
link if you want to know more about XSF fomrat and parameters we need to send to convert smart form into
HTML format.
http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW04s/helpdata/EN/a5/28d3b6d26211d4b646006094192fe3/content.htm
For the people, who want to investigate furhther on this topic. There is one report program available in SE38
transaction.
SF_XSF_DEMO_MAIL. kindly check it.
I hope it helps you.
Any suggestions are welcome.

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REPORT zsmartform_send_mail.
TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_cmail_html_parser,
part

TYPE string,

tag

TYPE string,

attributes

TYPE tihttpnvp,

is_end_tag

TYPE xfeld,

ref_tag_index

TYPE i,

END OF ty_cmail_html_parser.
TYPES: lt_mail_html_parset TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_cmail_html_parser.

***************************LOCAL INTERNAL TABLES*****************************************************

DATA :
lt_html_raw

TYPE

tsfixml,

lt_archive

TYPE

tsfdara,

lt_graphics

TYPE

tsf_xsf_gr,

lt_part

TYPE

lt_imgsrc

"XML output information.

"SAP Smart Forms: Table With Archive Indexes
"Image information

lt_mail_html_parset, "parsed html information.

TYPE TABLE OF string,

lt_result

TYPE

lt_imageid

"image source information.

match_result_tab,

"find stament result

TYPE TABLE OF string,

lt_mail_body

"image ids

TYPE crmt_email_mime_struc,

lt_to

TYPE

crmt_email_recipients,

"to email addresses

lt_cc

TYPE

crmt_email_recipients.

"CC email addresses.

*****************local structure***********************************
DATA: ls_output_options

TYPE ssfcompop,

"output options.

ls_xsfparam_line

TYPE ssfxsfp,

"parametes to get html format.

ls_job_output_info

TYPE ssfcrescl,

"Joboutput information.

ls_xmloutput

TYPE ssfxmlout,

ls_control_parameters
ls_part

TYPE ssfctrlop,

TYPE REF TO

"output information in XML format.

"control parameters.

ty_cmail_html_parser,"partsed html information

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ls_graphic

TYPE

ssf_xsf_gr,

ls_gr_raw

TYPE

bapiconten,

ls_attribute

TYPE REF TO

ls_imgsrc

LIKE LINE OF lt_imgsrc,

ls_imageinfo

"image information
"business service document file content

ihttpnvp,

"html tag attribute information.

"image source information.

TYPE LINE OF crmt_email_image, "image information.

ls_result

LIKE LINE OF lt_result,

ls_mail_body

"find result.

LIKE LINE OF lt_mail_body,

ls_recep

LIKE LINE OF

"message id.

lt_to.

"TO email addresses

****************local variables****************************************
DATA: lv_function_name
lv_xstring

TYPE

TYPE

lv_html_xstring

rs38l_fnam,

xstring,

TYPE

lo_conv
lv_html_temp
lv_len

TYPE
TYPE

lv_img_src

lv_activity

cl_abap_conv_in_ce, "conversion class.

i,

TYPE

"html data.
"Length of the string.

string,

TYPE REF TO

lv_imagename

"Xstring data.

string,

TYPE

lo_create_mail

"Xstring data.

xstring,

TYPE REF TO

"image source value.

cl_crm_email_data,

sysuuid_x,

TYPE

"Name of function module of smart form.

"mail data object

"activity guid

string.

***************************constants*************************************
DATA :

lc_flag
lc_outmode

TYPE c

VALUE 'X',

"flag constant

TYPE c

VALUE 'A',

"Application mode

lc_graphics TYPE string

lc_extract

TYPE string

VALUE 'GRAPHICS',
VALUE 'EXTRACT',

lc_contentid TYPE string

VALUE 'CONTENT-ID',

lc_enable

VALUE 'ENABLE',

TYPE string

"parameter
"Parameter
"content id
"enable

lc_img

TYPE string

VALUE 'img',

lc_src

TYPE string

VALUE 'src',

"src property of image tag.

TYPE string VALUE 'text/html',

"body content type.

lc_text_html
lc_body_html

TYPE string

VALUE 'body.htm'.

"image tag

"body html .

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PARAMETERS : lv_form TYPE tdsfname,

lv_mail TYPE string.

"smart form name.

"email address

"getting the smartform function module.

CLEAR lv_function_name.
CALL FUNCTION 'SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'
EXPORTING
formname

= lv_form

IMPORTING
fm_name

= lv_function_name

EXCEPTIONS
no_form

=1

no_function_module = 2
OTHERS

= 3.

IF sy-subrc IS INITIAL.
"filling the necesary parameters to get the smartform data
"in XSF (XML OUPUT FOR SMART FORMS) format.
"(XML output for Smart Form) FORMAT.
CLEAR ls_output_options.
ls_output_options-xsf

= lc_flag.

" XSF Output active

ls_output_options-xsfcmode = lc_flag.

" Get XSF params from program

ls_output_options-xsfoutmode = lc_outmode. " A:Application

ls_output_options-xsfformat = lc_flag.

ls_xsfparam_line-name = lc_graphics.
ls_xsfparam_line-value = lc_extract.

" Formatting ON

"#EC NOTEXT
"#EC NOTEXT

APPEND ls_xsfparam_line TO ls_output_options-xsfpars.

ls_xsfparam_line-name = lc_contentid.
ls_xsfparam_line-value = lc_enable.

"#EC NOTEXT
"#EC NOTEXT

APPEND ls_xsfparam_line TO ls_output_options-xsfpars.

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"calling the smartform function module.

CLEAR ls_control_parameters.
CALL FUNCTION lv_function_name
EXPORTING
control_parameters = ls_control_parameters
output_options

= ls_output_options

user_settings

=''

IMPORTING
job_output_info

= ls_job_output_info

EXCEPTIONS
formatting_error = 1
internal_error

=2

send_error

=3

user_canceled
OTHERS

=4
= 5.

check sy-subrc is initial.

ls_xmloutput = ls_job_output_info-xmloutput.
lt_html_raw = ls_xmloutput-trfresult-content[].
"image information.
lt_graphics[] = ls_job_output_info-xmloutput-xsfgr[].
"_____________getting the html format_______________________"
CLEAR : lv_xstring,
lv_html_xstring.
"converting from RAW fromat to XSTRING format.
LOOP AT lt_html_raw INTO lv_xstring.
CONCATENATE lv_html_xstring lv_xstring INTO lv_html_xstring
IN BYTE MODE.

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ENDLOOP.
"converting from XSTRING format to STRING format.
lo_conv = cl_abap_conv_in_ce=>create( input = lv_html_xstring ).
lo_conv->read( IMPORTING data = lv_html_temp ).
"now we have our smart form data in the hmtl format .
"we need to extract image information from the html string so that later
"we can embed the image.
"parse the html string tag by tag.
CLEAR lt_part[].
CALL METHOD cl_crm_html_parser=>parse_html_string
EXPORTING
iv_html

= lv_html_temp

iv_all_tags_lower_case = lc_flag
IMPORTING
et_parts

= lt_part.

"finding the source property value of the image (IMG SRC) in the
"html string. so later we can use it when embedding the
"image.
CLEAR ls_part.
LOOP AT lt_part REFERENCE INTO ls_part WHERE tag = lc_img.
CLEAR ls_attribute.
READ TABLE ls_part->attributes REFERENCE INTO ls_attribute
WITH TABLE KEY name = lc_src.
IF sy-subrc IS INITIAL.
IF ls_attribute->value(1) = '"'.
lv_len = STRLEN( ls_attribute->value ) - 2.
lv_img_src = ls_attribute->value+1(lv_len).
ELSE.

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lv_img_src = ls_attribute->value.
ENDIF.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF 'cid:' IN lv_img_src WITH space.
APPEND lv_img_src TO lt_imgsrc.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
CLEAR lv_len.
lv_len = 1.
"converting each image content into binary format.
LOOP AT lt_graphics INTO ls_graphic.

CLEAR : ls_gr_raw,
lv_html_xstring.
LOOP AT ls_graphic-content INTO ls_gr_raw.
CONCATENATE lv_html_xstring ls_gr_raw-line INTO lv_html_xstring IN BYTE MODE.
CLEAR ls_gr_raw.
ENDLOOP.
CLEAR lv_imagename.
CONCATENATE ls_graphic-graphics '.bmp' INTO lv_imagename.
"embedding the images inside the body.
"here content id which is there in the html string and content id that\
"we are sending in this internal table should be same.
CLEAR ls_mail_body.
ls_mail_body-is_attachment = lc_flag.
ls_mail_body-content_bin = lv_html_xstring.
CLEAR lv_img_src.
READ TABLE lt_imgsrc INTO lv_img_src INDEX lv_len.

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IF sy-subrc IS INITIAL.
REPLACE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF lv_img_src IN lv_html_temp WITH lv_imagename.
ENDIF.
ls_mail_body-content_id = lv_imagename.
ls_mail_body-file_name = lv_imagename.
ls_mail_body-mime_type = ls_graphic-httptype.
APPEND ls_mail_body TO lt_mail_body.
lv_len = lv_len + 1.
clear lv_html_xstring.
ENDLOOP.
"filling body of the mail.
CLEAR ls_mail_body.
ls_mail_body-content_ascii = lv_html_temp.
ls_mail_body-mime_type = lc_text_html.
ls_mail_body-file_name = lc_body_html.
APPEND ls_mail_body TO lt_mail_body.
"filling to email address
CLEAR ls_recep.
ls_recep-address = lv_mail .
APPEND ls_recep TO lt_to.
"create mail object.
CREATE OBJECT lo_create_mail.
"moving the subject.
MOVE 'smart form as html mail' TO lo_create_mail->subject.
"moving the body
MOVE lt_mail_body TO lo_create_mail->body.

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"moving to addresses
MOVE lt_to TO lo_create_mail->to.
"send the email.
"calling method to send the email
CALL METHOD cl_crm_email_utility_base=>send_email
EXPORTING
iv_mail_data

= lo_create_mail

RECEIVING
ev_send_request_id = lv_activity.
COMMIT WORK.

ENDIF.

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