Extending HR SelfService - Capture Current Person ID

Question

I am new to OA, I developed a stand alone region that I embed in a current HR Selfservice. I can successfully see the results displayed on the embeded screen in HR Selfservice. I need to be able to display only the current employee information I am processing in self service.
My problems is howto capture the person id or employee number of the person whose information is being displayed in the seeded HR Selfservice page, in the code for my embeded page.
Any help would be appreciated
thanks
Wasim

Answer 1

This will get you the userid:
String userId = String.valueOf(pageContext.getUserId());
Create a view object (XxGetPersonIdVO) that uses the following query to get the personID:
SELECT employee_id person_id
FROM fnd_user
WHERE user_id = :1
In the IMPL for the VO you can create a getPersonID methods like this:
public void getPersonId(String userId)
if ((userId != null) && (!("".equals(userId.trim()))))
Number searchUser = null;
try
searchUser = new Number(userId);
catch(Exception e)
throw new OAException("PAY", "XX_VMMC_NUM_VAL_REQ");
setWhereClauseParams(null); // Always reset
setWhereClauseParam(0, userId);
executeQuery();
} // end initQuery()
You can then get a reference to the vo with this:
OAViewObject idForPersonVo = (OAViewObject)am.findViewObject("XxGetPersonIdVO1");
Then pass the userid to the vo method to load the VO with the data:
Serializable[] userParams = {userId};
idForPersonVo.invokeMethod("getPersonId", userParams);
Then you can retrieve the information with this:
String personId;
OARow row = (OARow)idForPersonVo.first();
personId = row.getAttribute(0).toString();
Hope this helps.
Kris
Edited by: user530348 on Aug 14, 2009 10:40 AM