Collection of ADF Programmatic Functions

In this post I write some functions you can use those functions in your ADF application.

Get Viewobject attribute datatype programmatic

This function accept 2 parameters (iterator name, attribute name) and will return the data type of this attribute

Get Viewobject attribute Database Column Name

This function accept 2 parameters (iterator name, attribute name) and will return the database column name which map to the viewobject attribute

Clear Table Filters

If you want to clear table filters programmatically sent table component to this function

Reset af:query fields

If you want to reset af:query sent query component to this function

Invoke af:query Search Action programmatically

1- Bind the af:query in the back bean like:



2- Add af:commandButton and in it's action write this code



Show error message on adf component

Sometime you need to remove required property from af:inputText because it may cause some problems and in the same time you need to display error message on the inputText component so you can use the following function just send the error message and the adf component

Sort Table Column Programmatically

If you want to sort column programmatic you can use the following function just send table component and attribute which you would like to sort and the boolean parameter (true for ascending sort and false for descending sort)

Reset Table Sort

After sorting in column and need to reset the sorting you can use the following function just send table component and the iterator name (which the table point to) 

Call database sequence

When you want to get next value from database sequence you can use the following function just send database sequence name and it will return the next value of the sequence

Set Focus to component

If you want to set focus to component( as set cursor to inputText) just send component id to this function (if inputText id =it1 and you use page template with id=pt1 so the id which you have to send to this function is pt1:it1)

Expand Table DetailStamp Programmatically