Introduction to Disconnected Workbooks

15 Using an Integrated Excel Workbook Across Multiple Web Sessions and in Disconnected Mode 15-1 15 Using an Integrated Excel Workbook Across Multiple Web Sessions and in Disconnected Mode This chapter describes the functionality that your end users can use when they are not connected to a Fusion web application. It also describes how to restore server data context when the end user connects to a Fusion web application through an integrated Excel workbook after having previously been disconnected from the application. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 15.1, Introduction to Disconnected Workbooks ■ Section 15.2, Restore Server Data Context Between Sessions ■ Section 15.3, Caching Lists of Values for Use in Disconnected Mode

15.1 Introduction to Disconnected Workbooks

End users can open an integrated Excel workbook and log on to a Fusion web application from the workbook ribbon command button that you configure. The Fusion web application assigns a session to the user. After a connection to the Fusion web application is established and a valid session assigned, end users can download data from the Fusion web application to the workbook. They can then log off from the Fusion web application using the workbook ribbon command button or otherwise disconnect from the Fusion web application by, for example, disconnecting from the network that hosts the Fusion web application. How the Fusion web application terminates the session assigned to the user depends on how the user disconnects from the Fusion web application. If the user logs off from the Fusion web application using a workbook command, the Fusion web application terminates the session immediately. If the user disconnects from the Fusion web application by some other means for example, closing the workbook, the Fusion web application terminates the session assigned to the user after session timeout expires. Functionality Available to End Users in an Integrated Excel Workbook When Disconnected from a Fusion Web Application When end users are disconnected from the Fusion web application, they can perform the following actions: ■ Modify data downloaded from the Fusion web application ■ Insert new data into the appropriate ADF Table component contained in the workbook 15-2 Desktop Integration Developers Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework ■ Save changes to data and close and reopen the workbook without having to upload data to the Fusion web application ■ Track and update changes in the ADF Table component Caching of Static Information in an Integrated Excel Workbook Certain types of relatively static data are cached in the integrated Excel workbook to allow end users to use the workbook while disconnected from the Fusion web application. Table 15–1 describes the types of data that an integrated Excel workbook caches. It also describes when the integrated Excel workbook refreshes the data.

15.2 Restore Server Data Context Between Sessions