9 In-Context Launching Task Flows In Retail Applications

Retail applications can expose select task flows that you can directly launch. This feature is referred to as an in-context launch in a Retail application. You can launch these task flows directly through specific URLs. Retail applications provide information about the various task flows that you can in-context launch into including the URLs and the required parameters.You can use these URLs in other Web pages as links. For example, the URL to a task flow that invokes the Create Allocation Flow in a Retail application can be added as a link to dashboard report on a BI server. Since access to the task flows are initiated via URL links, the Retail application, with the requested task flow opened in a UI Shell local area, is shown in a new browser instance of either a window or a tab.

Limitations of an In-Context Launch Via URLs

This section provides details on how the Allocation application is functionally integrated with other systems (including other Oracle Retail systems). The discussion primarily concerns the flow of allocation-related business data across the enterprise.

The In-Context launch feature does not detect if there is a window or tab already open for the Retail application. If you click on a link to a Retail application's task flow, like a report on the BI server, a new browser window or tab opens even though you already have an existing browser window or tab open for that same Retail application.
If a BI dashboard is added to the Retail application, and if that dashboard has a report that contains links to an in-context launch task flow in the same Retail application, a new browser window or tab will still be opened.

List of In-Context Launch Task Flows

Quick Create

Table 9-1 Quick Create

Source	Mandatory Parameter	Optional	Sample URL
PO	source ,sourceIdList and any optional parameter	warehouseIdList itemIdList	http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=PO&sourceIdList=<sourceidList> &itemIdList= <itemIdList>
WAREHOUSE	source, warehouseIdList and itemIdList		http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=WAREHOUSE&warehouseIdList=<warehouseIdList> &itemIdList=<itemIdList>
WHATIF	source and itemIdList		http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=WHATIF&itemIdList=<itemIdList>
Scheduled	source is always warehouse . warehouseIdList,itemIdList are mandatory along with source		http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=WAREHOUSE&warehouseIdList=<warehouseIdList> &itemIdList=<itemIdList> &scheduled=true
ASN	source ,sourceIdList and any optional parameter	warehouseIdList itemIdList	http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=ASN&sourceIdList=<sourceidList>&itemIdList= <itemIdList>
BOL	source ,sourceIdList and any optional parameter	warehouseIdList itemIdList	http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=BOL&sourceIdList=<sourceidList>&itemIdList= <itemIdList>
TRANSFER	source ,sourceIdList and any optional parameter	warehouseIdList itemIdList	http://<host>:<port>/ alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=TRANSFER&sourceIdList=<sourceidList>&itemIdList= <itemIdList>
ALLOCATION	source ,sourceIdList		http://<host>:<port>/ alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF?source=ALLOCATION&sourceIdList=<sourceidList>

Load Allocation

Table 9-2 Load Allocation

Mandatory Parameter	Sample URL
allocationId	http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=loadAllocationTF?allocationId=<allocationId>