This question came up a couple of times from users so I figured I'll document how to achieve a layout that shows a list of items and allows you to pick an item from this list to show the details of this item on the same page.
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The default layout that ABCS creates is a list on one page with the ability to select an item and go see the details or edit that record on another page.
To combine the two into a single page, start from the edit or the details page that ABCS created.
On this page you then add the table or list for the same object, and set the link on a field to do the edit or details - this basically means that you'll do a navigation to the same page.
If you now run the page you'll be able click items in the table and see their details on the same page.
Here is a quick demo of how it is done:
Note that if you want this to be the default view that people see when navigating to your app - just update the navigation menu of your application to reflect this.
Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS for short) enables you (and your business users) to create rich web and mobile apps in a quick visual way from a browser with no-coding required (but coding is possible).
The UI that ABCS creates is based on Oracle JET, which many of our customers love because its responsiveness and lightness.
Some Oracle ADF customers have been on the hunt for a new client-side UI solution for their apps, and Oracle JET is certainly a technology that will work for those use cases.
A nice feature for Oracle ADF customers is that their data-access and business-service layer is built in a reusable way that is decoupled from the UI. And now, with the ability to expose ADF Business Components as REST service, they can use any modern UI framework to develop the UI including Oracle JET. There are already many blog entries with code samples on how to write JET apps that connect to ADF Business Components
But what if we could give you the simplicity of ABCS for the UI creation, the power of JET for the UI experience, and the ability to leverage your existing investment in Oracle ADF all without writing a single line of code manually?
Well, in the demo below I'll show you how you can reuse the logic you have in Oracle ADF Business Component and build a JET based UI on top of them in a declarative way with Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service.
Basically you get the best of each tool - and you don't need to write a single line of code !
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In the 9 minutes demo I'll show you how to:
Create an ADF Business Components layer on top of Oracle Database in the Cloud - (0:00)
Expose the ADF Business Components as REST service - (1:45)
Deploy the REST service to Java Cloud Service (JCS) - (2:19)
Create an Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service application - (6:00)
Add an ADF BC REST Service as a data source to the app - (6:30)
Create the user interface to your application - (7:20)
(Times are indicated in case you want to skip sections you are already familiar with)
If you are interested in a bit of a background on why this is so simple, the answer is that ABCS was built to enable easy integration with Oracle SaaS leveraging the REST services they expose. To quickly build the full app with all the defaulting you are seeing in there (full CRUD with a simple drag and drop) ABCS needs to know some basic information about the data that it needs to render (primary key, data types, etc). Since Oracle SaaS is built on Oracle ADF, we built into ABCS the capability to analyze the describe that ADF BC REST services provide. This makes it dead simple to consume ADF REST service in ABCS, whether these services come from Oracle's apps - or your own ADF apps :-)
As you can see there is a great synergy between Oracle ADF, Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service and Oracle JET.
Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) lets you do a lot of things in a declarative way, however for more complex validation and conditional logic you might need to resort to some basic coding in JavaScript.
I ran into such a case with an application I was developing, and figured out that the code sample from that system will be a good way to illustrate some coding techniques in ABCS.
The application I was working on allows people to register to various events. Each event has a certain capacity, so if there are too many people registered to an event, we want the rest to be added to a wait list. For each record of a person registering, we keep a reference to the event they want to attend. So the logic flow is:
Check how many open spaces are available for the event we are trying to register for.
If there is space in the event, save the new person data, and show a success message.
If there isn't space, update the person "Waitlisted" field to be true, save the data, and show a message saying that the person is on the wait list.
In the demo video below I'm showing how to:
Define declarative conditional flow of steps based on results from custom code
Traverse relationships between custom object through code
Execute a conditional query and run through the results from a custom object with code
Set the value for a property of a custom object through code
For reference here is the complete code from the sample:
require([ 'operation/js/api/Conditions', 'operation/js/api/Operator'], function (Conditions, Operator) { var lab = Abcs.Entities().findById('Lab'); var id = lab.getProperty('id'); //condition is to find a lab with the id that is in the page's drop down box var condition = Conditions.SIMPLE(id, Operator.EQUALS, $Person.getValue('ref2Combo_Box')); var operation = Abcs.Operations().read({ entity: lab, condition: condition }); //if query returned value we loop over the rows and check the capacity and registration columns operation.perform().then(function (operationResult) { if (operationResult.isSuccess()) { operationResult.getData().forEach(function (oneRecord) { if ((oneRecord.Capacity - oneRecord.Registered) < 1) { $Person.setValue('Waitlisted', true); reject("error"); } else { resolve("ok"); } }); } }).catch(function (operationResult) { if (operationResult.isFailure()) { // Insert code you want to perform if fetching of records failed alert('didnt worked'); reject("error"); } });});
We do get a lot of customers of Oracle HCM that approach us asking if they can use the same tools to extend Oracle HCM apps. While Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) has the list of Oracle Sales Cloud services pre-populated in the service catalog , you can pretty easily connect ABCS to Oracle HCM services too and get data and build an application around this data.
In the video demo below I'm building an application that records the details of the cars employees are allowed to bring onto campus. I leverage a REST service exposed by Oracle HCM to get the list of employees. ABCS also automates querying using the same service so you can search for a specific employee.
ABCS lets me create an app with the same look and feel as Oracle SaaS displaying the specific fields that interest me in the specific layout I want. Further more I can add custom data object that tracks the details of the cars and associate it with the HCM data.
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Note that in the security section I'm using basic security with a fixed user for the sake of simplicity in the demo. Note however that in the selection list I can also use the currently logged in Oracle Cloud user - to synch the user of my ABCS and their HCM authorization.
Are you coding SQL and PL/SQL code? Need to manage versions & branches? Want to track your to-do tasks? Need to conduct code reviews and peer programming?
Developer Cloud Service can help you!
And now it comes free with your Oracle Database Cloud Service trial or license - check your service dashboard to see if you got one. Note that even if your database is not in the cloud, but rather on-premises, you can use the same process shown in the video below.
In the demo you'll learn how to:
Provision a new cloud project for your team
Check SQL scripts into the Git Repository in DevCS
Track tasks and to-do items
Branch your SQL script code
Conduct code review with members of your team
Merge branches of code
Check it out:
I blogged about this topic in the past using JDeveloper, but figured out that most of the Oracle database developers actually use SQL Developer - so I thought it would be good to give them a quick 10 minute demo of what they can do by combining the power of SQL Developer and Developer Cloud Service. (The video can also be useful to just get a basic understanding of how SQLDeveloper works with any Git repo).
But how do you make sure that your actual database is in synch with the changes that you make in your scripts?
This is another place where DevCS can come to the rescue with the built-in continuous integration functionality it provides. Specifically with the new features for database integration including secure DB connection specification, and leveraging the powerful SQL Command Line (SQLcl) - the new command line interface to the Oracle DB - which is built-in in the DevCS build servers.
In the video below I go through a process where a check-in of SQL script code change automatically initiate a build process that modifies a running database.
A few points to note:
For the sake of simplicity, the demo doesn't follow the recommended step of a code review before merging changes into the master branch (you can see how to do that here).
The demo automates running the build whenever a change to the scripts is done. You could also define a scenario where the build runs at a specific time every day - for example at 1am - and synch the DB to today's scripts.
You can further extend the scenario shown here of dropping and re-creating objects to add steps to populate the DB with new data and even run tests on the new database.
As you can see Developer Cloud Service can be a very powerful engine for your database DevOps - and it is included for free with your Oracle Database Cloud Services - so give it a try.
As you start building more complex applications in Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service, you'll might need to define more complex interactions between objects or validations on rows of data or specific fields.
In the new version of ABCS that we rolled out in February we added these type of capabilities.
There are several things you could do with the new Business Rules section of ABCS
Triggers - allow you create logic that will be executed in specific CRUD events such as when you insert, remove or update a record.
Object Validators - allowing you to define checks across multiple fields in your object
Field Validators - allowing you to define a check on specific field values.
Object Functions - reusable functions that can be called from the other points
Note that these logic points will be running on the server side of ABCS.
In the video below I demonstrate a couple of these capabilities. You'll learn how to update one object when a specific value is set in another object's field. You'll also see how to check whether a combination of values in fields in a record is valid.
Check it out:
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Here is a screenshot of the nice logic flow editor:
A common use case for applications that have multiple pages is passing values between pages. For example you might want to pick up a specific record or value in one page and then use that as a parameter for a query in another page.
In the February release or Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service as part of the extension hook points that we provide, we added support for shared resources. These are JavaScript libraries you can add to your application - and that can be used across your app.
In the demo below I show you how you can use the built-in sample template for a shared resource to define a variable, and then how that variable is exposed in various places in the product through the expression builder allowing you to set its value in one page and use that value in another one.
This quick one is based on a customer question about Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service. The scenario is that we have a business object that has a field that contains the URL to an image. We want to be able to show that image on a page in Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service.
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To do that I add a custom UI component object to the details (or edit) page of a record - then I switched the HTML of that object to be: <img id="logoimg"/>
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I then added a button to the page and added a bit of custom JavaScript code in its action as follow:
var img = document.getElementById('logoimg');
img.src=$Company.getValue('Logo');
resolve();
This code simply locates the custom object on the page using the object id and then sets the src property of the img html tag to match the value of the field in the business object.
This happens every several years, our blogging platform at Oracle is switching to a new environment, and my blog is one of those moving. In the next few days I'll be testing to see if content migration did its magic and everything works.
If you run into any broken entries/links/samples please drop me a line or just comment on the specific blog entry, and I'll try to fix things.
This quick one is based on a customer question about Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service. The scenario is that we have a business object that has a field that contains the URL to an image. We want to be able to show that image on a page in Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service.
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To do that I add a custom UI component object to the details (or edit) page of a record - then I switched the HTML of that object to be: <img id="logoimg"/>
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I then added a button to the page and added a bit of custom JavaScript code in its action as follow:
var img = document.getElementById('logoimg');
img.src=$Company.getValue('Logo');
resolve();
This code simply locates the custom object on the page using the object id and then sets the src property of the img html tag to match the value of the field in the business object.
In the latest version of Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) that we rolled out at the beginning of May we introduced a set of new code templates for creating Business Object Providers.
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Business Object Providers - or BOPs for short - are a mechanism that allow you to extend ABCS and have it access external REST sources of data. In the video below I'm going to show you how to use the most basic template provided for BOPs - which allows you to create a read only BOP.
The template has 2 files that you need to change - one (RESTOperationProvider.js) that has the code for accessing the REST service and reading the results, and the other (RESTEntityProvider.js) has the code that defines the structure of the object you are creating.
Once you created a BOP you can add a new "external service" to your application in the data designer, and then you can use that object like you would any other.
One of the new features of Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) in the May 2017 release is integration with Oracle JET's Composite Components Architecture (JET CCA).
Based on the Web Components standard, JET CCA provides a way to define reusable UI components (with logic) that can easily be incorporated into multiple applications.
The new feature in ABCS allows you to pick such components as extensions to the ABCS design time, providing an easy standard way to extend your UI capabilities. For example in the screenshot below you see a new slider component in the common components section, and how it looks like when added to the visual designer.
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In this blog entry we'll start by creating a very simple JET CCA component and then see how to add it to Oracle ABCS. (Thanks goes to John Brock who helped get this sample working).
We'll start with the loader.js file - this file provides info on the other files involved in the component. Note that in the sample we are registering "slider" as the name of the component, in this file we are also indicating which jet components we are going to use and including them in the define section. Specifically we are adding the ojs/ojslider component here.
The next file we'll create is the component.json file. This file describes the meta data about our component. One of the key things you can define here is a set of properties that users of the components can set when they add it to their application. The nice thing in the ABCS integration is that these will show up at design time as properties in the visual editor.
In our component we are defining four properties that control the title, minimum, maximum, and actual value of a slider. Note that right now ABCS is using Oracle JET 2.3 and we need to specify this in the file.
Next we'll define the html file (demo-cca.html) that includes our UI. We are using regular HTML code here along with knockout.js binding of properties to values. You can use the $props prefix to refer to values of attributes we defined in the components.json file.
Next there is a css file - controlling the look and feel of the component. Since we are not doing any customization on the look and feel we'll create an empty file called demo-cca.css.
Next is the model file (demo-cca.js) - this file contains data and logic that can be accessed from the component. We'll create a basic file without any logic code in it.
define(['knockout'],
function (ko) {
function model(context) {
var self = this;
return model;
}
}
)
Now that you have created the 5 files - simply zip them into a single zip file. This zip file is the file you'll give to your component users. In this case to the ABCS developer.
Go into your Application Settings -> Extensions in Oracle ABCS and choose to create a new UI component from zip file. Upload the zip file you just created. Then make sure to enable the component using the boolean control on the page.
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Switch over to the UI Designer and you'll see that there is a new component in the component palette.
Drag and drop it into your page - and you'll see the HTML code. Set the properties in the property inspector and you'll see them influencing the content of your page.
You can also bind the properties to the values of fields in your custom business objects.
Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) gives you a great way to build apps that track data, but what if your data is also involved in processes? What if you need to automate not just the data collection but also the human workflow interactions? The new integration between Oracle ABCS and Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) enables you to achieve this easily.
You can now create processes that are associated with ABCS business objects and interact with them directly from your Oracle ABCS user interfaces. This is a two way interaction patterns, where PCS processes can access information from Oracle ABCS business objects, and ABCS user interfaces can be created on top of these PCS processes to initiate and progress processes.
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In the video example below I'm developing a basic approval flow for travel requests. The video will show you how the integration works covering:
Associating a process with a business object
Accessing the business object values from your process
Setting security and connection between PCS and ABCS
Initiating PCS processes from an ABCS page
Creating custom to-do list pages in ABCS to show you your tasks
Creating custom task details pages in ABCS to progress tasks
As you'll see, all of these are quite simple and completely declarative to achieve with the visual development approach.
The combination of the products provide great value to the users of each one of those. PCS customers will love the ability to persist the data they use in their processes, and the ability to design even richer interfaces and reports. ABCS users will love the ability to automate and manage long running complex processes.
Automated testing helps you locate problems earlier in the development cycle saving you precious time down the road. This is why it should be a key part of any DevOps cycle - and your database code shouldn't be an exception to this rule.This blog entry will teach you how to execute tests automatically following code changes that you do in your Oracle database.
In previous blog entires I showed you how to use Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DevCS for short) for database development including how to track and manage tasks, version code changes, conduct code reviews, and automate code deployment to the database. This blog adds one more step to this lifecycle - automated testing.
For PL/SQL testing I'm using the open-source utPLSQL unit testing solution. The team behind this project just released a completely re-written version of the framework with features that allow you to add PL/SQL testing to continuous integration processes.
A full explanation of utPLSQL is outside of the scope of this blog (They have decent documentation to get you started). But in short, the concept is that you write PL/SQL procedures that test other procedures. The framework includes functions you invoke from your test functions to evaluate results as well as annotations that deliver meaningful messages and information when reporting test results. The utPLSQL utility is comprised of a set of database objects that you install in a new schema, and then you use their ut.run() procedure to execute test cases.
One nice feature built into the framework is the ability to produce test result reports in a format that is compatible with regular JUnit tests. With this functionality, I was able to get Developer Cloud Service to show me the test results nicely. Further more the built in support of DevCS for the SQLcl commands, made it simple to integrate the PL/SQL based framework as part of a generic build process without the need to install anything else on my continuous integration server.
Here is a quick video showing you the result and the configuration needed.
In the video I show how a check in of a PL/SQL script into the Git repository triggers a chain of events that ends with publishing test results. If the test fails the build is marked as failed - which can trigger an email being sent to you notifying you each time someone broke your code.
Some tips for configuration of such a chain:
My build pipeline has two jobs. The first one runs the SQL scripts in the database. This job is triggered by any change made to my Git repository. So when I update my git repository with a SQL script that has a new definition of a database object, the build immediately takes it and updates the definition in my development or QA database.
Once this build job finishes, it queues up the next job - the unit testing job.
The unit testing job is using SQLcl to run the following commands:
set serveroutput on;
set feedback off;
spool /workspace_directory/results.xml;
exec ut.run(ut_xunit_reporter());
spool off;
I spool the results of the test run into an xml file that I keep in the workspace directory for my job. (You can find out this directory by adding a shell command build step that does echo $WORKSPACE - an environment variable on the build server). Then I execute the ut.run procedure with the parameter that tells it to output the results as XUnit/JUnit format - doc on this option here. I turn serverouput on to get the results to show, and I turn feedback off to hide the message that the procedure successfully completed.
In the post build step I archive the results.xml file, and then I indicate that I want to publish the content of this file as test results.
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When your build finishes you'll see your build status visually and you can then drill down to see specific tests status.
Notice that you can also ask to be notified by email on the results of the build (the CC Me button).
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Click on a specific run of a job to drill down into the test results
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And click on a specific test suite to get the details of each test
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That's it. You now have a complete chain that will notify you the minute that a database change someone did breaks any tests, helping you deliver better code faster.
The most popular blog entry on my blog has been the "How do I start Learning ADF" entry for years now. That entry however was last updated in 2012 (and written in 2010) - so I figured it is time to give it another update, point to more recent resources, fix broken links, and cover additional resources that appeared over the years.
So here is the ADF 12c version of that blog entry updated for 2017:
Get started with Oracle ADF in 6 steps
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Step 1 - Learn Basic Java
Oracle ADF aims to reduce the amount of coding you need to do for a lot of the tasks you'll need for building an application, and if you follow some of the tutorials mentioned later you'll see how you can build advanced apps without coding. But, at the end of the day, you will write code when developing with ADF - and that code would be written in Java. You don't have to be a Java ninja to work in ADF, but you should be familiar with basic language concepts and constructs.
There are lots of resources out there that will teach you the language (by the way if you are on ADF 12.2.* you should learn the Java/JDK 8 syntax), one option is the Oracle Java Tutorials path. Searching online you'll be able to find many other resources for this task. Since Oracle ADF is based on Java EE architecture - you might want to also get a bit of understanding of that architecture - but don't worry about learning all of Java EE in details - ADF will make it much simpler for you.
While learning the language you should be practicing it with the development tool that you are going to use, if you are going to developer Oracle ADF applications then that tool will be Oracle JDeveloper. Get yourself familiar with the basic IDE features for coders by running through this IDE tutorial.
Step 2 - Get started with Oracle ADF
Now that you know the basics of the Java language (and maybe some Java EE concepts), it's time to start using the framework that will simplify your life. Start by reading the data sheet and technical paper to understand what ADF is all about.
Now get your hands dirty by completing the Overview tutorial for Oracle ADF - this will take you a couple of hours but by the end of it you'll have built a full blown application, and you will touch on most of the parts of the Oracle ADF architecture.
Now that you have hands-on experience with Oracle ADF, it would be a good point to go and get some deeper knowledge about how the framework works. You can leverage the collection of free online lessons we recorded in the ADF Essentials channel. You don't have to watch all the videos, but I would definitely recommend that at a minimum you'll watch the overview, ADF business components, ADF Controller (both parts) and ADF Faces video. And then you must watch the video about the ADF bindings internal seminars (2 parts) - these are critical for you to understand the inner working of the ADF "magic layer" that makes development so simple.
By the way if you prefer to get knowledge through live or online instructor-lead courses or by reading books - we have those too - see the list here.
Step 4 - RTFM
Ok, now you have a good grasp of the framework and how it works, it might be a good time to read the manual for Oracle ADF - "Developing Fusion Web Applications with Oracle Application Development Framework". This is the complete guide and you should read it to get more insight into the framework, best practices, and general guidelines. Note that the ADF documentation libraries has additional books about ADF Faces, ADF Desktop Integration, Administration guides and more.
Step 5 - Become an ADF Architect
Now that you know how to build ADF apps, it's time to learn how to architect more complex projects and work in a team environment. The resource to learn from is the ADF Architecture Square - where we discuss best practices, development guidelines, and most importantly how to architect a complete complex application. Here you can find docs and also a link to a set of videos on the ADF Architecture Square YouTube Channel. If you only have time to watch one video from that channel - go for the "Angels in the ADF Architecture". By the way, if you are looking for a platform for your team to collaborate on while building Oracle ADF applications - check out the Oracle Developer Cloud Service and the integration it provides with JDeveloper.
Step 6 - Join the Community
As you continue on your development road, there will be times when you'll want to know "How do I do X?" or "Why do I get this error?". The nice thing is that since many other developers are working with ADF, you can leverage their collective knowledge. Got a question - type it into google and it is likely that you'll find blog entries and youtube videos that explain how to solve your issue.
Things keep evolving in the world of Oracle ADF, so to keep up to speed you should follow JDeveloper on Twitter for the latest news.
Over the years Oracle ADF has proven itself to be a great framework for enterprise applications, and each new release introduced further capabilities and simplifications - If you are just now joining the world of Oracle ADF you are in for a great ride. Have fun.
One of the new features introduced in a recent monthly update of Oracle Developer Cloud Service is the advanced code search box you can see at the top right when you look at your Git repositories. This is a separate search functionality from the regular project artifacts search the box does in the other section of DevCS.
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This search functionality is language aware, supporting a variety of languages including Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It scans and indexes your code to understand its structure. DevCS can then do context aware searches for objects in your code, providing you autosuggest and even supporting camelCasing in the search box.
In the short video below I show you how this works. I start by importing code from a random github project into DevCS - and then I perform a search and show you how to find out the files, lines of code & revision references to your search term. You'll also see how code navigation works in the browser.
For more information about this capability have a look at the documentation here.
Sending emails as a result of some changes to data is a common requirement we've been hearing from customers of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS). In previous versions we already added a function that allows you to fire up the client email software from your app. In the new version we rolled out a couple of weeks ago we added a new function that can manage the whole email processing inside VBCS - on the backend/server/cloud side.
When you define a new trigger on a business object you now have the option to add "send email notification" step to your logic flow.
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When you are defining this, you'll be able to pick or define a template for your email. The email template can have parameters to increase reusability. These parameters can then have their value set from expressions that can include values of fields from your objects.
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Here is a complete demo video that shows you how to add an email notification to an event on your business object:
This title seems like a click bait, but I'll try and show you that this is actually possible. (Especially if you act fast).
A pass to both conferences is not a cheap item, and with training budgets shrinking you might be running into problems getting approval to expense this to your company. But here are a couple of tricks you can use to get free access to OOW/JavaOne. Some would get you a full pass and some will get you into specific areas and sessions.
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Full Pass
Be a Speaker
Well we are a bit late to the call for papers at this point, but you might still be able to become a co-speaker if you have a good customer story to tell that shows how you are using the product/technology that a talk is about. Oracle is always looking to feature customer stories in our sessions - it is always better when a customer shares their real live success. Look up the content catalog and locate sessions on products that you are successfully implementing - ping the speaker and they might want to add you as a co-speaker.
Apply for the Awards
We are late for getting in this year, but keep an eye for this for next year. There is an Oracle Excelence Award where winners get a free pass to OOW. Details here. There is also a Duke's Choice Award where you get passes to JavaOne - Details.
So full pass might be hard to get for free, but you can get in on a big chunk of the action for free using
The Discoverer pass
A Discoverer pass lets you into the exhibit halls and various keynotes. Getting into the exhibit hall is great if you want to meet product managers and learn about the latest versions (and upcoming versions too). Most of the PMs are going to do shifts at the Oracle Demoground in their product pods - so hang out there and you'll be able to chat with us.
Usually a Discoverer pass is $75 - but since you are reading this blog, you can get one for free - use the code CDFR2017. Register here.
Oracle Code
Want to get into some technical sessions - this year we are bringing Oracle Code back to San Francisco during OOW - and you can get into this part of the conference for free. Reg here:
There is built in functionality in Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) that will let you attach an advanced filter to any table. This will give you the ability to define complex searches.
However, sometime people would want to create their own custom query pages. For example the default filter for a field searches for a letter in any place in the field - and maybe you just want to search for the first letter. Or maybe you want to display a nice selection list for filtering. There is a little trick that will let you achieve this, and I show it in the video:
The basic steps involve creating a new edit page with a new dummy business object. Then you add a table that is based on the real business object (the one with the data), and hook up the query of this table to the values of fields from the dummy business object. Then you add a button to do a "fetch all" on the table, and you are done.
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At the end of the video you'll also see how to hook this page into your main menu.
