Items in OAF

Items in OAF

There so many item styles in the OAF to display the data now we will discuss some of the  most frequently used item styles.

Create one project and create one page under this page create one region.

messageTextInput Item:-

            Message text input item will used to enter values. There the user can enter the details.

            For example email,password etc.

First create two items and select the item and go to property inspector set item style as messageTextInput.

To make the fields mandatory in the property inspector set showRequired to TRUE.

To make the texts in disable mode like we write the passwords in property inspector set the secret to TRUE.

If u want u can change the CSS style also.

Run the page to get the output.

messageStyledText:-

            To display the data in a read only format use the message style text item.

            Create the item select the item style as messageStyleText in the property inspector.

            

Run the page to get the output.

messageCheckBox Item:-

            Create the item select the item style as messageCheckBox in the property inspector.

            For messageCheckBox item we have to set some default properties.

            Initial Value:- Y (By default if u want to check the check box give the value Y).

            Checked Value:-ONE(By default which check box u want to check give that value).

Unchecked Value:-TWO(By default which check box u want to uncheck give that

 value).

            Initially Checked:-TRUE (By default if u want to check set the value to true).

Run the page to get the output.

messageRadioButton Item:-

            Create the item select the item style as messageRedioButton in the property inspector.

We can create and check all the radio buttons .

To check the single value we have to create one group for all the radio buttons programmatically.

For this first we have to create the controller.

Right click on main region and select set new controller.

            Give the name for the controller.

            

By default in package we will get two webui  just remove one webui.

After this it will open the controller and write the code their.

                

/*For Copy Paste*/

  public void processRequest(OAPageContext pageContext, OAWebBean webBean)

  {

    super.processRequest(pageContext, webBean);

      //To retrive the radio buttons

      OAMessageRadioButtonBean mrb=(OAMessageRadioButtonBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("MRB1");

      /*set the group name for the radio buttons.*/

      mrb.setName("Gender");

      /*set the value for particular radio button.*/

      mrb.setValue("male");

     

        OAMessageRadioButtonBean mrb3=(OAMessageRadioButtonBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("MRB2");

        mrb3.setName("Gender");

        mrb3.setValue("female");

     

  }

Then run the Page to get the output.

  

messageChoice Item:-

            Create the item select the item style as messageChoice in the property inspector.

            For message choice we need a view object so first create the view object.

            Right click on project select new.

            ADF Business Component---- >View Object

            Click ok.

            

After that a welcome window will come just click next.

In next window it will ask for the view object name and the package will come automatically once check the package.

Name :- DepartmentVO

Package:- (sangu.oracle.apps.po.HelloworldPRJ.server)

Click next, next…..

            In step 5 it will ask for the query write the query for which items u want in the message choice.

Click next ..

In step 8 check both the generate jave files.

Ø  VOImpl.

Ø  VORowImpl.

Click next and finish.

Attach the VO to AM

Right click on AM Select Edit AM

There move your VO from left to right.

Ok now lets come to our item select the item set the following property.

Prompt:-Department (Any name u want to display)

View Instance : -Select your view object name from lov( DepartmentVO1).

View Attribute:- select the column which u want to display in the message choice (Dname).

Picklist View Definition:- Give the path of the vo          

 (sangu.oracle.apps.po.HelloWorldPRJ.server.DepartmentVO)

Picklist View Instance:- Give the VO name (DepartmentVO).

Picklist Display Attribute:- Which values u want to display (Dname).

Picklist Value Attribute :- which values it shold take from vo(Dname).

Run the page to get the output.

messageRichTextEditor Item:-

            Create the item select the item style as messageRichTextEditor  in the property inspector.

            messageRichTextEditor item is used if the user want to give more details we use this.

            For ex writing Summary, Address etc.

            Give the prompt for the item.

            Run the page to get the output.

            

Image Item:-

           If u wants to insert any image in the OAF page then we we will use the image item.

           We cannot take image item directly in messageComponentLayout region for that first we have to

            take messageLayout and within that create the item and select the item set item style as image in

           property inspector.

         To display the images first we have to put our image in the server.

         All the images in server are stored in OA_MEDIA directory.

         Copy the image in OA_MEDIA. To know the path open the putty type $OA_MEDIA

         It will give the OA_MEDIA directory

        Type pwd it give the path and place your image in that.

        Here we are using WinSCP to move the file to server.

Next Copy the image in the local machine Jdeveloper patch OA_MEDIA directory also.

  jdevhome\jdev\myhtml\OA_MEDIA

To display the image in page we have to set some property in the property inspector of that item

Visual--- >

 Image URI-- > /OA_MEDIA/rose.jpg

  

Run the page to get the output.