OAF customization of questionnaire template

Question

Hi All,
I have a requirement to make the questionnaire in the appraisal mandatory. The questionnnaire is a template which has HTML code and is attached to the appraisal template. In the appraisal:
Update Appraisal button when clicked - Leads you to MAAppraisePG
This page has Complete Paths to Success button. This button needs to be made mandatory first so that users click on it before Apply button is pressed.
Once clicked and navigated inside, it has the questions listed in it and 3 buttons - cancel, save and Apply.
The approach thought of for the customization is:
1. Create a hidden session attribute in the Update Appraisal page. When Complete Paths to Succcess button is clicked, the session value should be set to 1.
2. The Apply button in this page looks for this value 1.
3. Once navigated inside, the questions are made mandatory for Apply. Save as Draft and Cancel will be optional. If Save as Draft is clicked, the control remains in the same page. If cancel is clicked it goes back to Update Appraisal page with session value 0.
4. So users will be forced to click Complete Paths to Success button and set session value 1 for Apply button and once inside, they will answer all questions which are mandatory for Apply button inside the questionnaire page.
Please let me know if this design is feasible. Also it would be great if i can get some sort of guidance to put session attribute and set its value.
Appreicate your help
Thanks
Ashish

Answer 1

hi
Thanks for the quick response.
I will re-phrase the requirement.
The Questionnaire template is an HTML code. Once this template is attached to the appraisal template and appraisal created, this questionnaire template comes up as an OAF Selfservice page.
My requirement is to make it mandatory. .
I dropped the idea of session variable as i have a LastUpdateDate field which can be used to track if the questionnaire is filled or not.
As a first step i want to make sure that employees click on Complete Paths to Success button and navigate to the questionnaire.
In Update Appraisal page there is a button called Complete Paths to success. When clicked on that and navigated inside it leads to the questionnaire. Once completed and applied, it wil take yuo back to the Update Appraisal page. Then below the Complete Paths to success button there is a last update date which gets filled.
I want to check if this field is null or not. If it is not null it indicates that employees have clicked on the button, filled in the questionnaire and applied them.
AppraisalsAM is the application module. This questionnnaire section has another AM - QuestAnswerAM
Inside that is the VO*QuestDetailsVO* and it has the field LastUpdateDate.
how do i check if this date is filled in or not. this is code i am using
Object quest = null;
OAApplicationModule am = oapagecontext.getRootApplicationModule(); -- this is fetching me AppraisalsAMImpl
OAApplicationModule childam = (OAApplicationModule)am.findApplicationModule("QuestAnswerAM"); --- fetches null
OAViewObjectImpl Dff1VO = (OAViewObjectImpl)childam.findViewObject("QuestDetailsVO");
OAViewRowImpl Dff1Row = (OAViewRowImpl)Dff1VO.getFirstRow();
quest = Dff1Row.getAttribute("LastUpdateDate");
My concern is i am not able to get the child applicaiton module and therefore the VO and the date attribute.
Or else,is there any other better way to get this date attribute from the OAF page?
Please help
thanks
Ashish