ADF Forms Issue

Question

Hi All,
I am fairly new to JDeveloper so please bear with me.
Based on the ADF Tutorial for Forms/4GL developers I have developed a simple ADF form that edits data on a database table. The table is built from a data control, has bound managed session beans for each of the editable items and has 2 simple command buttons - 1 to submit changes to the form (action listener -> commit), the other to rollback (action listener - rollback)
The form compiles OK and then runs OK via the OC4J Embedded Server.
However when trying to use the command buttons to perform a submit changes or to rollback the operation is not performed and it also looks as though the resulting redirecting URL is not correct. The original URL appears on the link with just the # (hash) sign appearing after it e.g.
http://10.101.7.34:8989/Data_Maintenance-Data_Maintenace-context-root/faces/app/grademaintain.jspx
becomes after clicking on a command button -
http://10.101.7.34:8989/Data_Maintenance-Data_Maintenace-context-root/faces/app/grademaintain.jspx#
I have also noticed that the range selector on the table is also not working and displays the second URL above.
Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong and why JDeveloper may be doing this ?
Please find source for the page below :-
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.0"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces"
xmlns:afh="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/html">
<jsp:output omit-xml-declaration="true" doctype-root-element="HTML"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"/>
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
<f:view>
<afh:html>
<afh:head title="grademaintain_edit">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/>
</afh:head>
<afh:body>
<h:form>
<af:messages/>
<h:form>
<h:form>
<af:panelPage title="#{res['fpgrademaintain.pageTitle']}">
<f:facet name="menu1"/>
<f:facet name="menuGlobal"/>
<f:facet name="branding">
<h:graphicImage height="85" width="137"
url="/images/ids_logo2.JPG"/>
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="brandingApp"/>
<f:facet name="appCopyright"/>
<f:facet name="appPrivacy"/>
<f:facet name="appAbout"/>
<af:table value="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.collectionModel}"
var="row" rows="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.rangeSize}"
first="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.rangeStart}"
emptyText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.viewable ? 'No rows yet.' : 'Access Denied.'}">
<af:column sortProperty="GradeId" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.GradeId}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.GradeId}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.GradeId.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.GradeId.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText1}">
<f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.GradeId}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="ChannelId" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.ChannelId}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.ChannelId}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.ChannelId.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.ChannelId.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true" disabled="true">
<f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.ChannelId}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="Channel" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.Channel}">
<h:inputText value="#{row.Channel}"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText3}"/>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="Grade" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.Grade}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.Grade}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.Grade.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.Grade.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText4}">
<f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.Grade}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="ValueFrom" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.ValueFrom}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.ValueFrom}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.ValueFrom.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.ValueFrom.displayWidth}"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText5}">
<f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.ValueFrom}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="ValueTo" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.ValueTo}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.ValueTo}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.ValueTo.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.ValueTo.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText6}">
<f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false"
pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.ValueTo}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="EffFromDate" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.EffFromDate}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.EffFromDate}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.EffFromDate.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.EffFromDate.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText7}">
<f:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.EffFromDate}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column sortProperty="EffToDate" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.labels.EffToDate}">
<af:inputText value="#{row.EffToDate}"
required="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrDefs.EffToDate.mandatory}"
columns="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.attrHints.EffToDate.displayWidth}"
autoSubmit="true"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.inputText8}">
<f:convertDateTime pattern="#{bindings.GradeVwView1.formats.EffToDate}"/>
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
</af:table>
<af:commandButton actionListener="#{bindings.Commit.execute}"
text="Submit Changes"
action="Home"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.commandButton1}"/>
<af:commandButton actionListener="#{bindings.Rollback.execute}"
text="Rollback"
immediate="true" action="Home"
binding="#{backing_app_grademain_edit.commandButton2}">
<af:resetActionListener/>
</af:commandButton>
</af:panelPage>
</h:form>
</h:form>
</h:form>
</afh:body>
</afh:html>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
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Many thanks for your help in advance.
Cheers,
Gary

Answer 1

Hi Gary,
I'll just clear a couple of things up first.
Both the command buttons and the range selector on the table should be pointing to that URL you mention (with the hash). This is the way that JSF/ADF works. Even if you have specified that a navigation case should redirect, it still first fires a request to the current page.
As far as I can see, there is no obvious problem with your page code. There are some things I would do.
1. You have three h:form components in your page. Remove the two below the af:messages component. You only need one form.
2. Check that there exist Commit and Rollback executables in the page definition file (right-click on page and select Go to Page Definition).
3. Check that there exists a navigation case from this page to the home page and that it is named Home (Look in the faces-config.xml file).