Dive into Oracle ADF      (Updated: 2/3/2008; 9:20:24 PM.) Tips and tricks from Steve Muench on Oracle ADF Framework and JDeveloper IDE Useful Resources ADF Developers Guide ADF Learning Center ADF Step-by-Step Tutorial ADF SRDemo Sample JDev Online Documentation Oracle ADF FAQ Wiki Oracle ADF Training OTN J2EE for Forms Devs Oracle JHeadstart for ADF JHeadstart Features/Benefits Step-by-Step ADF/JHS Tutorial Books and Training on ADF ADF Recommended Reading ADF Toy Store Demo ADF Toy Store JSF 10.1.3 My Technical Articles Most Common ADF Methods My Recent Presentations My Oracle Magazine Columns JDev on OTN JDev Discussion Forum OTN HowTo Documents Some Companies Using ADF About Me Oracle Community Blogs JDev Release History JDeveloper/ADF Screencasts JDev/ADF 11g Tech Preview JDev/ADF 11g Tips Undocumented Samples Other ADF Bloggers AMIS Technology Andrejus Baranovski Chris Muir Didier Laurent Duncan Mills Edwin Biemond Frank Nimphius Gerard Davison Gerger Consulting Grant Ronald iAdvise JHeadstart Team Jakub Pawlowski Janusz Marchewa John Stegeman Luc Bors Lynn Munsinger Matthew Wilson Olaf Heimburger Shay Shmeltzer Search blog with Google:   Search BC4J JavaDoc:   September 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Aug   Oct Sunday, September 03, 2006 Simple JSF List of Values Page I've added example #80 to my examples page illustrating a simple popup List of Values dialog for selecting a department for an employee using JSF and ADF Business Components. Examples like this are described in more detail in section 19.3.1 "How to Create Popup Dialogs" in the ADF Developer's Guide for Forms/4GL Developers. 8:43:34 AM     Setting Current Row to First Row on Page When Scrolling Table A customer wrote in to ask: In a JSF page, using an <af:table> component, the current row selection works independently of the table paging display. That is, if the user scrolls to see the "Next 5", for example, the current row remains unchanged. How can I cause the first row shown in the new current page of the table to be set to be the current row automatically? The simplest way to achieve this involves three steps: Edit the view object providing data for the <af:table>, visit the Tuning panel, and set its "Fill last page of rows when paging through rowset?" property to false/unchecked. Set the RangeChangeListener property of the table using the (...) button in the Property Inspector. This allows you to create a new JSF backing bean for the page and name its range change listener method. For example, you can call the method "onRangeChanged". The RangeChangeListener property will get set to the EL-expression #{TestPage.onRangeChanged} that identifies this listener method in the backing bean. Code the backing bean onRangeChanged() method, which will fire whenever the user interacts with the table's navigation "Previous N" / "Next N" links, to set the iterator binding's range to start at the new starting index position, and then to set the first row (zero-based!) in the new range to be the current row. The backing bean method would look like this: /* Backing Bean for page "TestPage.jspx" */ public class TestPage {   public void onRangeChanged(RangeChangeEvent rangeChangeEvent) {     DCIteratorBinding empViewIter = (DCIteratorBinding)EL.get("#{bindings.EmpViewIterator}");     empViewIter.setRangeStart(rangeChangeEvent.getNewStart());     empViewIter.setCurrentRowIndexInRange(0);   } } I've added Example #79 to my examples page with a working version of this tip you can download and try. 7:04:27 AM     Using Property Inspector to Rename Data Model Instances If you select an application module in the Application Navigator, and use the Structure Window to select the name of one of its view object instances, view link instances, or application module instances, then you can see that instance's name property in the Property Inspector. If you update the value of that instance's name property using the Property Inspector, you can easily rename the data model instance without having to open the modal Application Module editor. Not the easiest thing to discover yourself, but since it comes in handy for me from time to time, I figured I'd share the tip. 5:50:47 AM     © Copyright 2008 Steve Muench.