ADF 11g Input Table createinsert operation - can I manipulate?

Question

Hi,
I am an ADF newbie, and trying to figure out how to best approach this, any help appreciated.
I am using JDeveloper 11.1.1.3.0 with ADF BC.
I want to create/delete from a table from UI. I followed 23.3 Creating an Editable Table and 23.4 Creating an Input Table from Fusion Dev Guide.
Basically, I:
- Created an entity object, call it xxEO
- Created a view object based on this entity object, call it xxEOVO
- Dropped xxEOVO from data control palette as ADF table, and added createinsert, delete, commit operations to toolbar.
This works great.
But now I am trying to prepopulate one of the fields on every new row creation when createinsert is clicked. Basically, I dont want the user to be able to change this value, i want it to just show a read-only value in the new row when they hit the createinsert button.
Is there an easy way to do this? What are my options? I dont see any generated code where I can plug my value in..
Thanks!
Kalp

Answer 1

user514831 wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
The existing ActionListener JDeveloper created for me when I dropped CreateInsert as a button is : #{bindings.CreateInsert.execute}.
So is it that if I want to do anything more complicated than showing all table columns and updating all table columns, I cannot use this and have to replace by custom code like the one you have provided?
Yes!
I guess, you want to make only few columns that you have defaulted to be read only & not the entire row.
If so, make these columns as readOnly
<af:column sortProperty="Jan" sortable="false"
headerText="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.label}" id="c2">
<af:inputText value="#{row.bindings.Jan.inputValue}"
label="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.label}"
readOnly="true"
required="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.displayWidth}"
maximumLength="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.precision}"
shortDesc="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.tooltip}"
id="it3">
<f:validator binding="#{row.bindings.Jan.validator}"/>
<af:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.Results.hints.Jan.format}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
Thanks,
Navaneeth