How do you create table/datagrid programmatically?

Question

I'm ASP.NET developer and I'm writing my first application in JDeveloper & ADF and I'm having problem thinking through the solution.
I'm building two JSF pages. First page will display 3 or more input text (text1, text2, text3...) and a ADF read-only table that displays list of records that contain 3 or more fields (field1, field2, field3...). Each input text on the form is related to corresponding fields (i.e. text1 goes with field 1 and so on) in the table. User will enter values in the input text boxes and select a row in the table and click next which will take the user to the second page.
In the second page I need to take the selected row from table and corresponding input text and create another ADF readonly table (or something that looks lke table or grid). But this table needs to show in each field in the row as:
- Name of Field 1 from the table on First page.
- Value of Field 1 from the table on First page.
- User inputted text 1 value from First page.
- Checkbox that user can select to indicate if they want to use Field 1 or User entered text value
I need to create a row for each field in the table on first page. How do you do this in JDeveloper & ADF? I'm in real hurry for this solution so if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Edited by: dansshin on Mar 6, 2010 6:59 AM
Edited by: dansshin on Mar 6, 2010 7:02 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
this is not necessarily an ADF question but a basic JSF how-to question. ADF Faces provides you with JSF components, like RichInputText, RichTable, which are the runtime objects that make a table or a input text field. The table has one to many child components of type RichColumn, which you can either create at design time, if your table wasn't created dynamically, or in Java at runtime (using a managed bean associated with the page).
You also need to keep the values of the previous page and pass them on to the next. One option is to use attributes in a shared memory scope. For example, you could create a HashMap in session scope and add the input values from the input text fields and the selected row values (as a list or collection). Then when building the table on the scond page, you could get this back and dynamically populate the table.
However, you better search for a JSF tutorial that deals with such dynamic component creation and then get back to ADF Faces. As said, the question is not ADF specific but a request for a general JSF tutorial that we don't provide
Frank