Open af:inputListOfValues popup by calling JavaScript programmatically

af:inputListOfValues provides option to open Lov values in a popup and allow user to search, We can open this popup by clicking on magnifying glass icon

Recently I have seen a thread on OTN forum where user wants to open lov popup on a button click after checking some conditions and also found a post by Frank Nimphius Where he used javascript to open Lov popup on double click of mouse.
So guess what I have done ? ;)
Just called that javascript fucntion programmatically on button click

Navigating to (open) specific tab in af:panelTabbed programmatically -Oracle ADF

Hello All,
This post is about a development requirement - how to move (navigate or open) to a specific tab in panel tabbed  in Oracle ADF?
Suppose i have to open second tab of af:panelTabbed on a button click, so see how to do this using ADF Faces

• Create a Fusion Web application and a page to drop panel tabbed and a button





• now bind panel tabbed and it's showDetailItem to managed bean, in order to use disclosed property and to get client id
See the code to open (disclose) a specific tab of af:panelTabbed


    //Binding of Panel Tabbed
    private RichPanelTabbed panelTabBind;

    public void setPanelTabBind(RichPanelTabbed panelTabBind) {
        this.panelTabBind = panelTabBind;
    }

    public RichPanelTabbed getPanelTabBind() {
        return panelTabBind;
    }

    /**
     * @Method to disclose (open) specific tab
     * Pass the binding of af:showDetailItem that you want to open
     */
    public void setDisclosedFirstTab(RichShowDetailItem tabBind) {
        RichPanelTabbed richPanelTabbed = getPanelTabBind();
        for (UIComponent child : richPanelTabbed.getChildren()) {
            RichShowDetailItem sdi = (RichShowDetailItem) child;
            if (sdi.getClientId().equals(tabBind.getClientId())) {
                sdi.setDisclosed(true);
            } else {
                sdi.setDisclosed(false);
            }
        }
        AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(panelTabBind);
    }



• Now see the code written on button action- here i have checked that which tab is currently disclosed? and based on that i have passed next tab binding to this method





    /**Method to be called on Navigate Button
     * @param actionEvent
     */
    public void naviGateButtonAction(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        if (firstTabBind.isDisclosed()) {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(secTabBind);
        } else if (secTabBind.isDisclosed()) {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(thirdTabBind);
        } else {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(firstTabBind);
        }
    }



• now run your page and see navigation in af:panelTabbed

 Cheers Happy Learning :) Sample ADF Application

Creating pdf file using Apache PDFBox API in ADF Faces and opening it in new window -Oracle ADF

Apache PDFBox library is an open source java tool for working with PDF documents, go to http://pdfbox.apache.org/ for API docs and download jar (pdfbox-app-1.8.2) from there.

•  Now create a fusion web application and add jar to view controller project's library and class-path

•  To convert text to pdf format, i have used an input text and bind it to bean (to get value)

•  Now see the button code that converts text to pdf file format using Apache PDFBox



        PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
        PDPage page = new PDPage();
        document.addPage(page);

        // Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
        PDFont font = getFontDef();

        // Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
        PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

        // Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"

        contentStream.beginText();
        contentStream.setFont(font, 10);
        contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(50, 700);
        contentStream.drawString(textToConvert.getValue().toString());
        contentStream.endText();

        // Make sure that the content stream is closed:
        contentStream.close();

        // Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed:
        try {
            document.save("D:/Test_pdf.pdf");
        } catch (COSVisitorException e) {
        }
        document.close();



• now your pdf is generated in fixed path, and if user want to open it immediately , try to do this





        if ((new File("D:\\Hello World.pdf")).exists()) {

            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler D:\\Hello World.pdf");
            p.waitFor();

        } else {

            System.out.println("File is not exists");

        }



• this code invokes File Protocol using Runtime class
• Run this application and see-

 Click on generate button-

For more details and functionality visit Apache PDFBox site

Sample ADF Application-Download