Introduction to Adding Interactivity to an Integrated Excel Workbook

8 Adding Interactivity to Your Integrated Excel Workbook 8-1 8 Adding Interactivity to Your Integrated Excel Workbook This chapter describes how to add interactivity options to your integrated Excel workbook. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 8.1, Introduction to Adding Interactivity to an Integrated Excel Workbook ■ Section 8.2, Using Action Sets ■ Section 8.3, Configuring the Runtime Ribbon Tab ■ Section 8.4, Displaying Web Pages from a Fusion Web Application ■ Section 8.5, Inserting Values in ADF Table Columns from a Web Page Pick Dialog ■ Section 8.6, Creating ADF Databound Search Forms in an Integrated Excel Workbook ■ Section 8.7, Adding a Form to an Integrated Excel Workbook ■ Section 8.8, Creating Dependent Lists of Values in an Integrated Excel Workbook ■ Section 8.9, Using EL Expression to Generate an Excel Formula ■ Section 8.10, Using Calculated Cells in an Integrated Excel Workbook ■ Section 8.11, Using Macros in an Integrated Excel Workbook

8.1 Introduction to Adding Interactivity to an Integrated Excel Workbook

Adding interactivity to an integrated Excel workbook permits end users to execute action sets that invoke Oracle ADF functionality in the workbook. It also provides status messages, alert messages, and error handling in the integrated Excel workbook while these action sets execute. In addition to end-user gestures double-click, click, select on the ADF Desktop Integration components that invoke action sets, you can configure workbook and worksheet ribbon buttons that end users use at runtime to invoke action sets. The action sets that end users invoke can make use of functionality defined in the Excel workbook and in pages of the Fusion web application with which you integrate the Excel workbook. For example, the EditPriceList-DT.xlsx workbook in the Master Price List module renders an ADF Button component that, at runtime, invokes a page from the Fusion web application. The invoked page allows end users to specify additional search criteria to what can be specified in the workbook’s search form which is rendered using ADF Button, ADF Input Text, and ADF Label components. 8-2 Desktop Integration Developers Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework In addition to action sets, you can configure Excel functionality, such as macros and Excel formulas, to manage the data that you want to download from or upload to your Fusion web application.

8.2 Using Action Sets