What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.7.2

For Release 11.1.1.7.2, this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed.

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For changes made to Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) for this release, see the New Features page on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/overview/index.html.

Sections	Changes Made
Chapter 6 Validating and Converting Input
Section 6.3.4, "What You May Need to Know About Rounding Behavior of Number Converters"	Section added to describe the rounding behavior of af:convertNumber when it displays an input value with more decimal digits than specified by maxFractionDigits.
Chapter 8 Organizing Content on Web Pages
Section 8.11, "Adding a Transition Between Components"	Section added to document the new deck component and transition tag.
Section 8.9, "Displaying and Hiding Contents Dynamically"	Section revised to document the use of the childCreation, contentDelivery, maximized, showMaximized, and maximizeListener attributes.
Chapter 9 Using Input Components and Defining Forms
Section 9.6, "Using Selection Components"	Updated to include indeterminate (or mixed) state of the selectBooleanCheckbox component.
Section 9.6.3, "What You May Need to Know About Passing an Empty Value From the SelectOneChoice Component"	Section added to describe the behavior of selectOneChoice component when it is a required component and its value is submitted with the default selected item set to an empty value.
Section 9.8, "Using the richTextEditor Component"	Section updated to describe how the footer facet of richTextEditor component can be used to display additional information about the richTextEditor component. The section is also updated to describe the DimensionsFrom property used to resize the richTextEditor component at runtime.
Chapter 10 Using Tables, Trees, and Other Collection-Based Components
Section 10.2, "Displaying Data in Tables"	Section revised to document how scroll bars can be hidden using a skinning key. Also revised to document the new value of loadMore for the scrollPolicy attribute.
Chapter 15 Creating a Calendar Application
Section 15.3.1, "How to Configure the Calendar Component"	Section revised to describe how the splitterCollapsed and splitterPosition attributes can be used to separate the all-day and timed activities areas in the day and week views of the calendar.
Section 15.6.3, "How to Customize Dates"	Section revised to describe how DateCustomizer can be used to color code dates by setting the background color on a date in the month grid of the calendar using the getInlineStyle method and the dateHeaderStamp facet. Also described how DateCustomizer can be used to add strings to the blank portion of the header for a day, for example to show the total number of hours worked per day.
Chapter 16 Using Output Components
Table 16-1, "Formatting Codes for Use in af:outputFormatted Values"	Section updated to include <h1>-<h6> tags in the list of formatting values allowed in the outputFormatted component.
Chapter 20, Customizing the Appearance Using Styles and Skins
Section 20.2.3, "How to Register a Custom Skin"	Section updated to clarify that you create the trinidad-skins.xml file in the WEB-INF directory.
Chapter 22 Developing Accessible ADF Faces Pages
Section 22.3.1, "ADF Faces Component Accessibility Guidelines"	Section updated to include accessibility guidelines for multimedia content and showPopupBehavior component.
Chapter 25 Using ADF Gauge Components
Section 25.4.13, "What You May Need to Know About Skinning and Customizing Gauge Appearance"	Section added to describe how you can use skinning and a custom skin to set gauge styles.
Chapter 30 Using ADF Treemap and Sunburst Components
Section 30.2.3.1, "Configuring Sunbursts"	Section revised to describe the describe the labelHalign, labelDisplay, and radius attributes used to control a node's label position, label orientation, and size relative to other nodes.
Section 30.4.10, "Configuring Sunburst Node Radius"	Section added to describe how to use the radius attribute to control the display size of a node relative to other nodes.
Chapter 31 Using ADF Hierarchy Viewer Components
Section 31.1.3, "Available Hierarchy Viewer Layout Options"	Section revised to add the circle layout as an available type when using the Create Hierarchy Viewer dialog and to remove references to the quick start layout options.
Section 31.8.6, "What You May Need to Know About Skinning and Customizing the Appearance of a Hierarchy Viewer"	Section added to describe how skinning can be used to customize the hierarchy viewer's appearance.