When that Command Button is pressed or Command Link is clicked then its corresponding ActionListener method will execute and this is the place where we can evaluate all validation and check whether right input is feed to that query or not.
So First of all we need to get hold of those Rich components. Select the rich component and go to it's property
Select Binding property and edit its value by clicking the down arrow just beside of that input box.
We can create a new Managed bean or use an existing one ; it will create one Private variable and two methods one for setter and another for getter of the same.
In the method for that Action Listener public void actionListenerImpl(ActionEvent actionEvent) we can refer that property and create our own validation logic.
In this blog what I am trying to implement is communication between two ADF pages. Here I have a main page (Figure 10) where user can click on the search icon and control shifts from that page to a dialog page (Figure 11) . And when user clicks the done button from the dialog page then selected values (here I am using Empid as an example) will come from dialog page to main page for further use. Please refer below snaps
Source Page Destination Page
Now I will show as step by step way how we can achieve it.
Creating a view is primary one as I had already shown in my previous blog.
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let’s design the destination page first i.e.the page where user can select an employee and the data is returned to the “Add Project page”. From Application Module we need to select the view which is got created as Figure 2 above and drag it to the page and then we will be prompted to select a container. Here I have selected trinidad table.
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In destination page we need to add a commandlink and it’s code looks like below
where entry for “tr” and “f” are as follows xmlns:f=http://java.sun.com/jsf/core and xmlns:tr=http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad.The image I have used like this
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Please make sure that you have included below libraries.
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And Finally the page looks like
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Below figure shows the code snippet of source page (Add Project) from where user is navigated to the page shown in Figure 8. After selecting the container type as ADF form (after following the step like drag and drop view objects from data control palate), we get all viewable columns as wrapped in <af:panelLabelAndMessage>. As our objective is to add a command link beside Employee id which will direct us to the destination page we need to modify default ADF panel form. Before adding the command link the code will look like as left side and after adding it will look like as right side (code shown in red color is added only for command link). 
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Now here comes the tricky part , when user in destination page selects a particular row and click on the "done" button on left top corner then what will happen? Till now what I have shown the code will go nowhere as there is no ActionListener defined.
So we need to define ActionListener as follows
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Step 1: Getting Application Module reference :
Please refer below link http://anindyabhattacharjee.blogspot.com/2010/06/get-application-module-reference.html
Step 2: (ActionListener functions) Earlier we had created an attribute named "Empid" and its data source is set as <ProjectAppModuleDataControl.EmployeeViewObj1 >. Now we need to set the value of this attribute to the value specified by user.
Step 2.1: Take value from user specified row
Step 2.2 : Set value from Step 2.1 to created Attribute. This method is used as ActionListener
We have created an attribute as figure 6. Now I am using that attribute value in line 16.
Now we need to set a ReturnActionListener method in source page.Till now what we achieve is taking the value from user selected Row in destination page, but how come the data becomes available when control comes back to the main page from destination page. For that we need to define a method in returnListener attribute at source page.
setEmployeeID is a custom method defined in Application module Implementation class.
Getting Application Module reference using datacontrol name:
We can write this piece of code in our managed Bean. Application Module has direct visibility to view and entity so we may need to access Application Module from our user interface.We can pass data control name as string to getApplicationModuleForDataControl function
Where resolveExpression()
is defined as
Database scripts can be downloaded from http://www.box.net/shared/p467v0emqq
Bounded task flows have some key features like
Create Employee Basic page:
Figure 2: Create Bounded task-flow design
Add
Figure 3.3: Create Employee Basic Info Page (step 3)
Similarly create Contact Info page as Employee Basic Page and the page will look like
Figure 5: Create Employee Education Info Page
Similarly create Contact Info page as Employee Basic Page and the page will look like
Figure 6: Create Employee Job Info Page
Add below to set navigation to task flow return
From Component palate select "Task Flow Return" and drag it to the task-flow-definition page and rename it to taskFlowReturnSuccess and taskFlowReturnCancel and draw two control flow cases, one for Success and one for cancel.
Figure 7: Completed task-flow-definition
We need to click on Submit so that the data will get persist on database.
Click on Search button to get corresponding data.
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