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Button component to invoke the Download action for the ADF Table or ADF Read-only Table component so that the search results from the search operation are
downloaded to the integrated Excel workbook.
For information about creating a search form in a Fusion web application, see the Creating ADF Databound Search Forms chapter in the Oracle Fusion Middleware
Fusion Developers Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.
To invoke an advanced search form in an integrated Excel workbook: 1.
Open the integrated Excel workbook.
2.
Create an ADF Button component in the Excel worksheet.
3.
Set the Label property of the ADF Button component so that it displays a string at runtime to indicate to end users that they can start a search operation by
clicking the button.
4.
Use the Action Collection Editor to configure the array of actions Action[]Array in the ClickActionSet properties of the ADF Button
component. Table 8–6
describes the actions to invoke in sequence.
5. Click OK.
Figure 8–21 shows an example from the EditPriceList-DT.xlsx workbook in
the Master Price List module where an ADF Button component invokes the Execute action binding to retrieve the values specified by the end user in the
Master Price List’s module Search page excelAdvSearch.jspx. The ADF Table component’s Download action downloads the returned values to the
integrated Excel workbook.
Table 8–6 Actions to Invoke an Advanced Search Form
Add this action... To...
Dialog Display the page from your
Fusion web application
that contains the search form. For more information about displaying
pages from a
Fusion web application
, see Section 8.4,
Displaying Web Pages from a Fusion Web Application. Component
Invoke a Download action from the ADF Table or ADF Read-only Table components to download the results that the
ADF Model action retrieved.
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Figure 8–21 ADF Button Component for an Advanced Search Form
8.7 Adding a Form to an Integrated Excel Workbook
You can use the ADF Desktop Integration components described in Chapter 6,
Working with ADF Desktop Integration Form-Type Components, to create forms in
your integrated Excel workbook. These components can be useful when you want to provide end users with functionality that allows them to view and edit individual
fields rather than use the functionality provided by the table-type components to download rows of data from the Fusion web application. Use one or more of the
following components to create a form:
■
ADF Button Use this component to provide end users with a button that can invoke a
ClickActionSet. Figure 8–22
shows an ADF Button labeled Search that invokes
a search operation using the search term entered by the end user in the ADF Input Text component.
■
ADF Input Text Use this component to provide end users with a readwrite field where the
current value of a binding appears. This component can also be used to input a value, as in the example illustrated in
Figure 8–22 , where users enter a search term
in the ADF Input Text component.
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ADF Output Text Use this component to provide end users with a read-only field where the current
value of a binding appears.
■
ADF List of Values Use this component to provide end users with a dropdown menu from which a
user can select a value from a list binding.
■
ADF Label Use this component to provide end users with instructions or other information on
how to use the form you create. For example, the Master Price List modules EditPriceList-DT.xlsx workbook uses ADF Label components to display an
instruction to end users and the number of matches for a search term. Figure 8–22
