Task flow-call as a Dialog with inline-popup issue JDev 11.1.1.2.0

Question

I have a very serious issue with task flow-call running as a Dialog with inline-popup
have bunch of data driven table components pointing to pageDefs with Iterators
the problem is, the dialog comes first with nothing in it (blank) and it takes 3-5 seconds to fetch all views,
this is useless, there is no option to control taskflow-call activation , like you do for af:region
For reference : I am talking about this : http://jobinesh.blogspot.com/2010/08/refresh-parent-view-when-in-line-popup.html
Download the workspace , connect as HR Schema and you will see what I am talking about
looks really dumb, it would make sense to show dialog with data all at once, rarther than looking at blank screen to wait for the data to show up
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 8:57 AM
can I call this a bug?
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 1:58 PM
sometimes I wonder if anyone tested this, as soon as you have some data driven components on your page, you get all sorts of problems in ADF
But something simple, Adf client side invokes the Dialog as a popup first, and then it thinks oh ya I get massive pageDef to load, so end-user customer will stare at the blank screen for 10 secs , hoping that something will come up or program is crashed
Well, I am afraid to say you lost your customer :(
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 2:29 PM
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 2:35 PM
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 2:35 PM
Edited by: user626222 on Sep 20, 2010 2:36 PM

Answer 1

ok, knowing this fact, I want to show some kind of status indicator during the wait time.
Unfortunately, putting af:statusIndicator does not work untill after entire page loads
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?Adf-Rich-Response-Type ?>
<content action="/EmpApp/faces/displayEmployees.jspx?_adf.ctrl-state=5plp6ahes_72">
<fragment><![CDATA[<span id="f1::postscript"><input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" value="!-e8tyzkiuc"></span>]]>
</fragment>
<fragment>
<![CDATA[<div id="afr::DlgSrvPopupCtnr::content" style="display:none"><div id="j_id12" style="display:none">
<div style="top:auto;right:auto;left:auto;bottom:auto;width:auto;height:auto;position:relative;" id="j_id12::content">
<div id="j_id13" class="x142"><div class="x157" _afrPanelWindowBackground="1"></div>
<div class="x157" _afrPanelWindowBackground="1"></div><div class="x157" _afrPanelWindowBackground="1">
</div><div class="x157" _afrPanelWindowBackground="1"></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" summary="" class="x146">
<tr>
<td class="p_AFResizable x148" id="j_id13::_hse"> </td>
<td class="p_AFResizable x14a" id="j_id13::_hce"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" summary=""><tr>
<td><div id="j_id13::_ticn" class="x151"><img src="/EmpApp/afr/task_flow_definition.png" alt=""></div></td><td class="x14e" id="j_id13::tb">
<div id="j_id13::_ttxt" class="xz8"></div></td><td>
<div class="x153"><a href="#" onclick="return false" class="xz7" id="j_id13::close" title="Close"></a></div></td></tr></table></td><td class="p_AFResizable x14c" id="j_id13::_hee"> </td></tr><tr><td class="p_AFResizable x14j" id="j_id13::_cse"> </td>
<td class="p_AFResizable x14g" id="j_id13::contentContainer">
<div id="j_id13::_ccntr" class="x14h" style="width:700px;height:430px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
<div id="j_id14" class="xne" style="position:absolute;width:auto;height:auto;top:0px;left:0px;bottom:0px;right:0px">
<iframe _src="javascript:'<html&gt;<head&gt;<title/&gt;</head&gt;
<body/&gt;
</html&gt;'" src="javascript:''" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%">
</iframe>
</div></div></td><td class="p_AFResizable x14l" id="j_id13::_cee"> </td></tr><tr><td class="p_AFResizable x14n" id="j_id13::_fse"><div></div></td>
<td class="p_AFResizable x14p" id="j_id13::_fce">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" summary=""><tr>
<td class="p_AFResizable x14u" id="j_id13::_fcc"></td><td align="left" valign="bottom"><div class="p_AFResizable x14y"><a tabIndex="-1" class="x14w" id="j_id13::_ree" title="Resize"></a></div></td></tr></table></td><td class="p_AFResizable x14r" id="j_id13::_fee">
<div></div></td>
</tr></table></div></div></div></div>]]>
</fragment>
<script-library>/EmpApp/afr/partition/gecko/default/opt/frame-SHEPHERD-PS1-9296.js</script-library>
This is how it launches the taskflow-call, so there is no way to control this behaviour from the calling taskflow's jspx, feels very closed system,why ADF is not making this behavior Open by some kind of client listener,
<script>
<![CDATA[AdfDhtmlLookAndFeel.addSkinProperties({"AFPopupSelectorFooterStart":"x11b","AFPopupSelectorHeader":"x114","af|panelWindow-tr-open-animation-duration":"300","AFPopupSelectorHeaderStart":"x115","AFPopupSelectorContentEnd":"x119","AFPopupSelectorContent":"x117","af|panelWindow::resize-ghost":"x144","AFPopupSelectorContentStart":"x118","AFPopupSelectorFooter":"x11a","AFPopupSelectorFooterEnd":"x11c","AFPopupSelectorHeaderEnd":"x116","AFPopupSelector":"x110",".AFPopupSelector-tr-open-animation-duration":"200"});AdfPage.PAGE.addComponents(new AdfRichPopup('j_id12',{'_dialogURL':'/EmpApp/faces/adf.dialog-request?_adf.ctrl-state=5plp6ahes_76&_rtrnId=1285074907739&__ADFvDlg__=true','_inlineFrameId':'j_id14','_launchId':'r1:0:cb2','_panelWindowId':'j_id13','_rtnId':'1285074907739','contentDelivery':'immediate'}),new AdfRichPanelWindow('j_id13',{'modal':true,'resize':'on','stretchChildren':'first'}),new AdfRichInlineFrame('j_id14',{'source':'javascript:\'\x3chtml>\x3chead>\x3ctitle/>\x3c/head>\x3cbody/>\x3c/html>\''}));AdfPage.PAGE.clearMessages();AdfPage.PAGE.clearSubtreeMessages('r1');]]>
</script>
AdfDhtmlRichDialogService.getInstance().launchInline there is no way for me to put af:statusindicator for the wait time using this way
<script>AdfDhtmlRichDialogService.getInstance().launchInline('j_id12');*</script>
</content>