13. Implementing Shuttle Region in OAF

Shuttle region allows users to move items between two lists as well as reorder the items in the list. When you implement a Shuttle region, you define two lists:

A Leading list (Available List) - from which user can select items from a given list of items

A Trailing list (Selected List) - user will select item from Leading list and move those to this trailing list.

Also we can implement a Shuttle region with just one list, to achieve only Reorder functionality, in that case only a Leading list is required.

We can also add buttons/icons in the footer below each of the Shuttle lists. By Simply defining Leading footer child or Trailing footer child in region creates a flowLayout region by default, to which we can add a button or image.

Here, I have created a simple page to implement shuttle region. User will select employee name from 'Available List' and move them to 'selected List'. A button is also added at footer of trailing list. Clicking on this button will show all the employees selected in a message.

1) Create a new OA page:

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Right click on project (xxcus) --> New --> Web Tier --> OA Components --> select 'Page' item. Click OK. (This will open a popup window)

We are creating a page for implementing shuttle region, so specify the details of page as below:

          Name: XxShuttleDemoPG

          Package: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.webui

2) Create a new view objects (VO):

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Right click --> New View Object (This will open a wizard having 7 steps).

Step 1

         Package: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.server

         Name: XxEmpShuttleVO

         Choose the radio button 'Read-only Access' (as there is no DML operation). Click Next.

Step 2

         Enter the below query in 'Query Statement':

               select ename from employee

Keep defaults for step3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 and click Finish. Save All.  

3) Create a new Application Module (AM):

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Step 1

         Package: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.server

         Name: XxShuttleDemoAM. Click Next.

Step 2

    Here we will add an instance of the VO created in (2). Select XxEmpShuttleVO from 'Available View Objects' and shuttle it to 'Data Model' using ">" button.

Keep defaults for all other steps (3, 4). Click Finish.

4) Create a new Controller (CO):

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Right click on pageLayout region and create a new controller

            Name: XxShuttleDemoCO

            package: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.webui

5) Creating the Page Layout & Setting its Properties :-

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The page will appear as below:

1) Create a new region under pageLayout of type shuttle. This will automatically create a region for leading list.
2) Add Trailing list: right click shuttle region --> new --> Trailing.
3) Add trailing footer to display button: Again right click on shuttle region --> new --> trailingFooter. This will create a flowLayout region under trailingFooter.
4) Add 'Display Items' button: Create an item of type submitButton under the flowLayout region.

Now change the properties for each field from property inspector as shown below:

pageLayout:

            ID: pageLayoutRN

            AM Definition: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.server.XxShuttleDemoAM

            Window Title: Shuttle Demo Page

            Title: Shuttle Demo

shuttle:

           ID: shuttleRN
           Available Header: Available Employees
           Selected Header: Selected Employees

leadingList:

           Picklist View Definition: xxcus.oracle.apps.fnd.shuttledemo.server.XxEmpShuttleVO

           Picklist View Instance: XxEmpShuttleVO1

           Picklist Display Attribute: Ename

           Picklist Value Attribute: Ename

list2:

           Picklist Display Attribute: Ename

           Picklist Value Attribute: Ename

submitButton:

           ID: displayBtn

           Prompt: Display Items

The declarative page structure in jDev will be similar to as shown below:

We will catch the button event (displayBtn) in PFR method of controller and display a message showing all the employees present in selected list. If there is no item in selected list, throw an error message. Below is code for the same:

public void processFormRequest(OAPageContext pageContext, 
                               OAWebBean webBean) {
    super.processFormRequest(pageContext, webBean);
    
	String message = "";
    
	if (pageContext.getParameter("displayBtn") != null) {
        OADefaultShuttleBean shuttle = 
            (OADefaultShuttleBean)webBean.findChildRecursive("shuttleRN");
        String[] items = 
            shuttle.getTrailingListOptionValues(pageContext, shuttle);
    
    if (items != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < items.length - 1; i++) {
                message = items[i] + " , " + message;
            }
            
			message = message + items[items.length - 1];            
            throw new OAException("Items in trailing list are: " + 
                                  message, OAException.INFORMATION);
        } else {
       throw new OAException("Please shuttle at least one item from available list.", 
                                  OAException.ERROR);
        }
    }
}

Below is how the error message will appear: