Customizing the Cell Content of a Pivot Table

Question

Hi,
I have been away from ADF for a few years (since 10g v 1.3.1) and am quite impressed with all the Faces functionality added to the 11g release. The application I wrote relied heavily on pivot tables which back then, I had to use stored procedures in the database and dynamically views to display information. I am very interested in moving this application to 11g and taking advantage of the PivotTable component. One thing the application does is change the style of cells based upon the object being presented. I have been reading:
Oracle® Fusion Middleware
Web User Interface Developer's Guide for Oracle Application
Development Framework
11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
B31973-03
And am very interested in section 26.8 Customizing the Cell Content of a Pivot Table.
I easily created a pivot table and would like to change the formatting of various cells. I created a backing bean for a test page and added the Example 26–4 Sample Code to Change Style and Text Style in a Pivot Table to the bean.
public CellFormat getDataFormat(DataCellContext cxt)
CellFormat cellFormat = new CellFormat(null, null, null);
QDR qdr = cxt.getQDR();
//Obtain a reference to the product category column.
Object productCateg = qdr.getDimMember("ProductCategory");
//Obtain a reference to the product column.
Object product = qdr.getDimMember("ProductId");
if (productCateg != null && productCateg.toString().equals("Sales Total"))
cellFormat.setTextStyle("font-weight:bold")
cellFormat.setStyle("background-color:#C0C0C0");
else if (product != null && product.toString().equals("Sales Total")
cellFormat.setTextStyle("font-weight:bold");
cellFormat.setStyle("background-color:#C0C0C0");
return cellFormat;
Almost verbatim except changed the literals to select data in my use case domain. My question is: How do I invoke this message from my pivot table? I need to pass it a instance of the DataCellContext. The example is great and illustrates what I am looking to do but does not go into the implementation details required. Is there a sample app available for download that demonstrates these capabilities?
Thanks,
Jeff
Edited by: jcapzz on Jun 9, 2011 3:56 PM

Answer 1

Hello,
I haven't fully understood your question.
Is it: How do I call the getDataFormat() method from my pivot table?
If so , you need to set the dataFormat attribute of your pivot table.
ex: <dvt:pivotTable id="pt2" var="cellData" varStatus="cellStatus"
value="#{bindings.YourView.pivotTableModel}"
headerFormat="#{viewScope.yourBean.getHeaderFormat}"
*dataFormat="#{viewScope.yourBean.getDataFormat}"*
contentDelivery="immediate" pivotEnabled="false"
columnFetchSize="-1" rowFetchSize="-1"
/>
I also put the *headerFormat* attribute which allows to customize the headers
I hope I understood your question ;)
Jack