Change Style of ADF TreeTable, Column, Data Cell, Selected Row using ADF Skin

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In this tutorial, We'll learn to change look n feel of ADF tree table component using Oracle ADF Skin
Here I am using Departments and Employees table HR Schema to prepare the model and created tree Table using view link between Departments and Employees View Object

Increase Icon size of af:panelSpringBoard using ADF Skin

ADF Faces af:panelSpringBoard component shows af:showDetailItem in a fancy view using icons as the notation of showDetailItem

From Oracle Docs

The panelSpringboard control can be used to display a group of contents that belongs to a showDetailItem. An icon strip with icons representing the showDetailItem children along with the item's contents are displayed when in strip mode, and a grid of icons with no contents shown is displayed in grid mode. When the user selects an icon while the panelSpringboard is in strip mode, the panelSpringboard discloses the associated showDetailItem. When the user selects an icon while the panelSpringboard is in grid mode, this automatically causes the panelSpringboard to display in strip mode. Typically you would put one or more showDetailItem components inside of the panelSpringboard but you may also alternatively place a facetRef, group, iterator, or switcher inside of the panelSpringboard as long as these wrappers provide showDetailItem components as a result of their execution

I have added a panel springboard on the page and by default, it looks like this

Use ViewObject Query Mode for In-Memory Sorting of data in Oracle ADF

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Previously I have posted about In-Memory filtering of ViewObject by changing ViewCriteria's query execution mode, Now this post is about In-Memory sorting of records in viewObject. By default sorting and filtering in viewObject works on the rows retrieved from DB

We can change ViewObject Query mode as per our requirement, There are 3 different SQL query mode

Export ViewObject data to Excel File Using Apache POI in Oracle ADF

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Previously I have posted about importing data in ADF Table from Excel file

This post is about exporting viewObject data in Excel file using Apache POI API, Apache POI provides HSFF and XSFF to read , create and modify spreadsheets.
You can download POI jars from The APACHE Software Foundation or from here
Other than this you need to use xmlbeans and common-collections Jar

ADF Basics: Add the row at the end of ViewObject's current RowSet in ADF

This post is about adding a row at the end of current rowset of viewObject without using table or any other UI components binding


Here I have a Department ViewObject (HR Schema), dropped as a table on page and a button to add new row, this button calls a method from model using binding layer 

ADF Basics: Filter ViewObject data using getFilteredRows and RowQualifier

Sometimes we need to get filtered data from ViewObject using one or multiple conditions,
Though this is the very basic of framework yet new developers find it confusing.

There are two ways of filtering ViewObject

 1. In this we apply WHERE clause on ViewObject and it affects resultSet data, Suppose we have Department ViewObject and we want to see data of DepartmentId 4 on page after filtering, for this viewCritera, bind variables comes in action
ADF Basics: Apply and Change WHERE Clause of ViewObject at runtime programmatically

2. In this user want to get filtered data (Rows) in code only without any effect on ViewObject resultSet (page data), Here I am discussing this point

We can get filtered data from view object using two methods-

Reinitialise taskFlow in dynamic region and set focus to default activity

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We all use bounded task flows in ADF application development and to switch between multiple task flows we use concept of dynamic region

Recently I came across a problem about dynamic region and bounded task flows, Scenario is like this

I have dropped a BTF in dynamic region and there is a link on page to open that task flow and those who have used dynamic region would be familiar with this piece of code

Hide values from ADF SelectOneChoice using EL expression on UI

This post is about a specific requirement that is to hide some values from adf based select one choice from UI
Previously I have posted about disabling some items from select one choice and this post uses same steps to hide values from lov

oracle.jbo.domain.DataCreationException: JBO-25009 while using multiple selection component in ADF Faces

Previously I have posted about using multi-selection components (af:selectManyCheckbox, af:selectManyChoice, af:selectManyListbox, af:selectManyShuttle) of ADF Faces. These components make use of list binding and work on base attribute and display attribute concept

Populate select one choice using Web Service Data Control in ADF Application

My previous post was about creating a JAX-WS Web Service from Java Bean and consuming web service and showing data in ADF table. Now In this post, I am going to elaborate about consuming that Web Service in ADF Application and show Employees data in selectOneChoice component


So for this requirement, We need to use Web Service Data Control and from that WSDL we can create ADF Faces components

Let's see how to implement this

Create POJO based JAX-WS WebService easily with Jdeveloper 12.1.3

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In this post, I am talking about creating a simple JAX-WS web service using Jdeveloper 12.1.3 .
JAX-WS is a Java API for XML Web Services and we can create a JAX-WS easily with Jdeveloper IDE
Idea is to create a web service that shows Employees list with their name, designation, salary and department name so for this, I am going to use POJO Java Class

Let's implement it

Understanding Nested Application Modules in Oracle ADF

Application Module acts as a container for view Object and view Link business components that are used in a specific task. It provides data model and data control to show required information and perform action for the client
An application module represents a single transaction and owns one database connection that's why commit and rollback works for all view Objects inside an application module

Check for dirty (Uncommitted) data of current view port (page) on a button click or any event in ADF

Sometimes we need to check for uncommitted data on page and perform actions according to that, Suppose there is a button to navigate to another page but only if there is no uncommitted data in current page
We can use uncommitted data warning property of af:document to show an alert dialog but in that way, we can't execute our custom logic

Previously I have posted about checking dirty data of a transactional data control but in that, we need to check that for each data control separately that is rendering on page

Undo row selection of af:table in selection listener method conditionally

Recently I have seen a question on OTN Jdeveloper forum and It was about table selection listener
Requirement is like this suppose user has to check a condition after selecting a row and if that condition is true only then new row will be selected else selected row should be previous one

It means undo row selection on validation(condition) failure
So In this post I am implementing same scenario and here I am using Departments table of HR Schema to prepare model and condition is that user should be able to select new row only if ManagerId is not null

Resize FacesMessage, Change look n feel of Message Box using ADF Skin

We all must have used FacesMessage somewhere in ADF application, FacesMessage is used to show any notification like error, warning or confirmation
Here you can read more about FacesMessage

Previously I have posted about changing default icon of FacesMessage using ADF Skin now this post is about resizing FacesMessage dialog and changing it's look and feel

Get af:richTextEditor value without HTML formatting and tags using jsoup library

af:richTextEditor

is used to format text in rich text using HTML formatting and it is used to get the formatted text. Previously I have posted about it
Cool Component - Using af:richTextEditor as text editor, HTML editor with custom toolbox in Oracle ADF

Show saved file (pdf/text/html/xml/image) content on page from database (BLOB) in ADF Application

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Previously I have posted about uploading and saving files in database blob column now this post is about showing saved file content on page using ADF Faces inline frame component

In this post I am extending same previous application, Now see how we can implement this
There are few more steps to go , See the additional steps to show file content on page-

Oracle ADF Best Practices, Mistakes and Worst Practices

In this post I am putting some practices and that we should follow while using Oracle Application Development Framework for development

ADF Basics| Tip to Hide af:inputListOfValues search popup at runtime

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Previously I have posted about a requiremnt of  hiding af:inputListOfValues search icon using CSS
ADF Skinning | Hiding search icon of af:inputListOfValues using CSS & StyleClass

In that solution search icon doesn't appear on page but it is a part of JSF component tree so when user press TAB+SPACE after entering a value in lov component then search popup appears on screen as this action invokes search icon click event

Recently a Friend of mine came across another requirement that was not showing lov popup at all as only autoSuggest behavior was required , so for this first way is to use autoSuggest behavior in an af:inputText compoent using Lov bindings and second way is to short circuit component life cycle

Uploading and downloading files from database (BLOB) in Oracle ADF (12.1.3)

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This post is about a very simple requirement -file handling (uploading and downloading various types of file) in ADF and it is needed very often to store file in absolute server path (actual path) and download from there and I have posted about that previously

Uploading and downloading files from absolute server path

Now this post is about uploading and saving file in database BLOB column and downloading from there
See step by step implementation -