Better UI -Show jQuery notification message (for error, warning, info) in Oracle ADF

Hello all,
Another post about using jQuery with ADF Faces , this post is about showing a notification message using jQuery in your ADF Application
Normally we use default FacesMesage to show error, warning and info messages in ADF

here i am using jQuery growl library , you can download files from Growl : jQuery Informative Messages Plugin

Let's see how to integrate this library with ADF Faces, you will get two files from above link
one is JavaScript file (jQuery script) and other one is CSS file (style-sheet for notification UI)



Add both files to viewController project under Web Content

now add reference of both files (JS and CSS) in page and also jQuery library to execute growl script

 <af:resource source="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.2/jquery.min.js" type="javascript"/>
            <af:resource source="js/jquery.growl.js" type="javascript"/>
            <af:resource source="style/jquery.growl.css" type="css"/>

Now i have added 3 buttons on page to show different messages on button click and created a managed bean to define action for each button
On button click i have called jQuery script to invoke notification message
see managed bean code-

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;

import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.render.ExtendedRenderKitService;
import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.util.Service;

public class ShowJqNotification {
    public ShowJqNotification() {
    }

    /**Helper method to execute javascript
     * @param script
     */
    public void calljqHelper(String script) {
        FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        ExtendedRenderKitService erks = Service.getService(context.getRenderKit(), ExtendedRenderKitService.class);
        erks.addScript(context, script);
    }
    //Change your message as per requirement 
    /**Method to invoke Error Message
     * @param actionEvent
     */
    public void showErrMessageAction(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        calljqHelper("$.growl.error({ message: \"Hi this is error message!\" });");

    }

    /**Method to invoke Warnign Message
     * @param actionEvent
     */
    public void showWarningMessageAction(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        calljqHelper("$.growl.warning({ message: \"Hi this is Warning!\" });");
    }

    /**Method to invoke Info Message
     * @param actionEvent
     */
    public void showNoticeMessageAction(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        calljqHelper("$.growl.notice({ message: \"Hi this is Notice!\" });");
    }

}

All done, now run application and check - how it looks :)

this is default look of script , you can customize it , just change some parameters in both JS and CSS files
I have changed some parameters in both files and see how it looks now

Cheers, Happy Learning :)
Sample ADF Application- Download

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Using JQuery in Oracle ADF

Stretch ADF Faces Components to fit browser width (Show as row-column layout- inline block )

Recently i have seen a thread in OTN about layout of components (How to use components to show a particular layout)
ADF layout for showing email recipients

Requirement was simple, user want to show components up to maximum available width (browser window width) first and then move to next line and show other components
So i thought to document it here :)

Suppose i have to show 6 images on page (horizontally) , so for that i have used 6 group layout
one for each image and button



See xml source-

<af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1" layout="horizontal">
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl2" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:a_hobbit_house-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Hobbit House" id="i1" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b1"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl3" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:beach_at_sunset_3-wallpaper-1440x900.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Sunset at Beach" id="i2" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b2"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl4" layout="vertical" halign="center" inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:icelands_ring_road-wide.jpg']}" shortDesc="Ring Road"
                                  id="i3" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b3"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl5" layout="vertical" halign="center" inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:road_to_mount_cook-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Road To Mount Cook" id="i4" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b4"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl6" layout="vertical" halign="center" inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:skyscrapers_reflections-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Skycrappers " id="i5" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b5"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl7" layout="vertical" halign="center" inlineStyle="padding:2px;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:tufandisli_1387241118_57.jpg']}" shortDesc="Tufan"
                                  id="i6" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b6"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                </af:panelGroupLayout>

 and how it looks on page-

You can see here last image is not appearing properly because total width of all images has crossed maximum available width of browser window
Now i want to show last image on next line
So to do this set parent panel group layout to default layout and set display:inline-block for all child panel group layout

<af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1">
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl2" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:a_hobbit_house-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Hobbit House" id="i1" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b1"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl3" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:beach_at_sunset_3-wallpaper-1440x900.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Sunset at Beach" id="i2" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b2"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl4" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:icelands_ring_road-wide.jpg']}" shortDesc="Ring Road"
                                  id="i3" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b3"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl5" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:road_to_mount_cook-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Road To Mount Cook" id="i4" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b4"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl6" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:skyscrapers_reflections-wallpaper-1280x800.jpg']}"
                                  shortDesc="Skycrappers " id="i5" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b5"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                    <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl7" layout="vertical" halign="center"
                                         inlineStyle="padding:2px;display:inline-block;">
                        <af:image source="#{resource['images:tufandisli_1387241118_57.jpg']}" shortDesc="Tufan"
                                  id="i6" inlineStyle="width:250px;height:200px; "/>
                        <af:button text="View" id="b6"/>
                    </af:panelGroupLayout>
                </af:panelGroupLayout>

Now it appears like this -

now again test it by increasing and decreasing browser window width , images and group layout are adjusted as per screen size automatically like a grid view (row and columns)

Thanks , Happy Learning :)
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ADF Basics: Apply and Change WHERE Clause of ViewObject at runtime programmatically

This post is about applying or changing WHERE clause of ViewObject programmatically, it can be also used in case we need a specific data(row) from database, suppose you are using Department table of HR Schema and on a button click you need to show records of department id 5

It means you want to filter viewObject on that particular event, you can do this using setWhereClause mehtod of ViewObjectImpl class.
See the image below , all rows shown in this

Now when we click the button, it will filter (apply WHERE Clause in Departments ViewObject) rows and refresh ViewObject , returns desired rows.




For Department_Id 4-

For Department_Id 5-

To apply WHERE Clause , see this simple snippet of code

ViewObject v1 = am.getDepartment1();

v1.setWhereClause("DEPARTMENT_ID=4"); // Pass Where Clause String as Method Parameter

v1.executeQuery();

This code snippet fetch the Row with Deprartment_id=4 and returns back to page. setWhereClause sets the Query's (SQL) Where Clause and doesn't take effect until executeQuery method of ViewObjectImpl is called

To reset Where Clause we have to set null value in method used

ViewObject v1 = am.getDepartment1();

v1.setWhereClause(null); // To Remove Where Clause

v1.executeQuery();

Thanks , Happy Learning :)