Query Bean Where clause

In Query Bean (Auto Customization Criteria) , OA FWK generate
where clause automatically .
I want to disable this criteria in some cases. Is there any way exists?
(Disable means remove some condition )
I want to see runtime query with where clause(In case of Query Bean) . Is there is any way to find out it?
Thanks, Avaneesh

You have couple of options to do this,
1. You can use getCriteria API on the queryBean which will stop the query execution by framework and it's the responsibility of the developer to use the dictionary returned by getCriteria and bind the complete where clause yourself.
2. You can use getNonViewAttrCriteria API on queryBean. This provides a dictionary of criteria on the column which are not mapped to a viewAttribute, for example if you want a poplist in the search region which has values like "Last one week", "Last 2 weeks", "Last 15 days" and so on and want to bind the criteria your self by interpreting the value selected.
In this case, framework still binds the where clause for the other criteria's which are mapped to a vo based column in the table and expects the developer to bind the criteria for these non viewattribute mappings in the controller.
I think your requirement fits in the second approach.

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