How to create an application with a 'Windows' like interface?

Question

Hi,
I am trying to create an application with an windows like interface where menu selections need to open bound taskflows in a page/window but i can not get it to work. I did the following
- i created a page template with a panelStretchLayout
- added a menuBar with commandMenuItems
- created a start page based on the template
- created bound taskflows with page fragments for all menu items
- placed a dynamic region on the start page which initially shows a taskflow with an empty/blank page fragment
- change the dynamic region taskflow from every menuitem and added partial triggers on the dynamic region for every menu item
When i run the application the first empty page fragment is showed correctly but when i select a menu item the correct new page fragment is showed but it keeps showing a loading data .... hint and seems to freeze. So no data is showed while the underlying datacontrols work while using the bc tester.
Besides this problem i am wondering if i at all am going the right way with this with using a dynamic region? In the final application i will have a total of about 25 menu items over several menus and if they all will be showing in one main dynamic region with partial triggers set to all menu items it may get a bit complex? I saw you can also create a window in a popup which i like even more because it looks like an actual window but this is modal. I would like a bound taskflow to be opened whenever a menu selection is made.
Any pointers or tips or the solution to not showing data?
Kind Regards,
Andre

Answer 1

Hi Sascha,
If have not encountered that problem. Are you sure you have a taskflow entry under the executables tag in the page definition of the page which has the dynamic region on it? I have one like this:
<taskFlow id="dynamicRegion1" taskFlowId="${DynamicRegionBean.dynamicTaskFlowId}" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/controller/binding"/>
During the selection of its initial value when it is rendering for the first time it should have the session bean already initialized. My bean looks like this:
public class DynamicRegion {
private String taskFlowId = "/WEB-INF/startTF.xml#startTF";
public DynamicRegion() {
public TaskFlowId getDynamicTaskFlowId() {
return TaskFlowId.parse(taskFlowId);
public String feitenTF() {
taskFlowId = "/WEB-INF/feitenTF.xml#feitenTF";
return taskFlowId;
public String themasTF() {
taskFlowId = "/WEB-INF/themasTF.xml#themasTF";
return taskFlowId;
public String feitCategorienTF() {
taskFlowId = "/WEB-INF/feitCategorienTF.xml#feitCategorienTF";
return taskFlowId;
The startTF is the initial taskflow and the other methods are being called from my menu. The dynamic region has the menu items as partial triggers. That is all i did.
Kind Regards,
Andre