What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.7.3

For Release 11.1.1.7.3 this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or change.

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

Sections Changes Made

Chapter 3, "Setting Up Your Development Environment"

Section 3.4, "Installing ADF Desktop Integration."

Section updated for the new ADF Desktop Integration add-in installer.

Section 3.6, "Upgrading ADF Desktop Integration"

Section updated to describe the new upgrade method.

Chapter 6, "Working with ADF Desktop Integration Form-Type Components"

Section 6.6, "Inserting an ADF Input Date Component."

Section added for ADF Input Date component.

Chapter 7, "Working with ADF Desktop Integration Table-Type Components"

Various sections updated to describe the default ModelDrivenColumnComponent subcomponent of the ADF Table component.

Section 7.2, "Page Definition Requirements for an ADF Table Component"

Section revised to describe support for view objects' range paging access mode. Consider using this access mode when an integrated Excel workbook has to download large amounts of data.

Section 7.10, "Configuring an ADF Table Component to Upload Changes Using RowUpSyncNoFail Action"

Section added for the new action RowUpSyncNoFail that enables upload of data rows regardless of any validation failure.

Section 7.27, "Enabling Row-Level Action Set Model Management"

Section added for the new property RowActionSetModelMgmtEnabled that enables you to manage the server-side model state with a row-level action set.

Section 7.17, "Adding a Model Driven List Picker to an ADF Table Component"

Section added to describe the Search and Select user interface in integrated Excel workbooks.

Chapter 9, "Configuring the Appearance of an Integrated Excel Workbook"

Section 9.8, "Using ADF Desktop Integration EL-based Properties with Custom Attribute Properties"

Section added for the new property, CustomAttributePropertiesEnabled that enables you to use custom attribute properties defined in View Objects on the server.

Chapter 14, "Deploying Your Integrated Excel Workbook"

Section 14.7, "Integrating ADF Workbook Composer into Your Fusion Web Application"

Section added to describe ADF Workbook Composer that allows you to customize an integrated Excel workbook from the runtime web user interface of the Fusion web application.

Chapter 15, "Using an Integrated Excel Workbook Across Multiple Web Sessions and in Disconnected Mode"

Changed the chapter title from "Using an Integrated Excel Workbook Across Multiple Web Sessions and in Disconnected Mode"

Appendix A, "ADF Desktop Integration Component Properties and Actions"

Section A.17, "ADF Desktop Integration Compatibility Properties"

Section added to describe the ADF Desktop Integration compatibility properties. The compatibility properties ensure that workbooks created with ADF Desktop Integration versions that did not include a given feature do not change their behavior

Appendix C, "Troubleshooting an Integrated Excel Workbook"

Section C.2, "Downloading the ADF Desktop Integration Diagnostic Report."

Section added to describe ADF Desktop Integration Diagnostic Report that can be used for support, troubleshooting, and during diagnostic situations.