How to switch to a tab and point to a certain row in a view

Question

Dear all,
I have an application with two tabs - A and B.
In the A tab, I have two views (ADF tables) and a form: the department view, the employee view and the employee form to edit. The two views are linked, so that when I click on an item in the department ADF table, the employees ADF table changes accordingly, showing a list of employees that belongs to that selected department. Clicking on an employee item, the employee ADF form changes also accordingly, showing the employee data in their editable fields.
So far so good.
Suppose we are now in the B tab, where there is a search view. In that search view, I can search for an employee, setting the department id or/and an employee id. It's a classical 'All queriable attribute' search.
What I would like to achieve, is that once I have found the desired employee entry in the B tab, clicking on a button on the same page should trigger the following:
- the selected tab should switch from the (current) B to the A tab, so that the A tab becomes active with focus;
- the department and the employee ids in the views - and of course the employee form - should all point to the ones selected in the search view from the (previously active) B tab.
Would that possible with JDeveloper and ADF ? Could someone of you point me in the right direction ?
Regards,
Sergio.

Answer 1

Hi,
thanks for the useful links and suggestions.
The scenario I have, sadly differs from your suppositions, but your hints will help anyway - when not now, surely in the near future.
What I have is the following:
First comes the display page (the 'A' tab), where the departments and the employees are listed. The search tab (the 'B' one) is not the main tab; in fact, we can use the fist (A) tab without the needing of a search.
But there are occasions, in which we do have to search first; that's the purpose of the Search tab. From there, I would like to go to the main page (the 'A' tab) and set, as explained, the related department id and the employee id based on the item selected on the search tab.
Setting the active tab is a task that, thanks to the previous posts, has been already accomplished.
What is still in the to-do list, is the setting to the department id and employee id in the main page, accordingly with the one selected in the (previous active) search page.
I'm not using page flows - however, a task flow is indeed used, but only inside the main page 'A' tab. The Search tab is a page on its own.
The iterators are also not the same.
So I guess I have to set the department and employee list programmatically. So far, despite I'm searching in every corner of the www, I can't find a suitable solution.
Further help would be Greately appreciated,
Sergio.
[EDIT]
checking the vinod_t_krishnan link right now..
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