4 In-Context Launching Task Flows in Retail Applications

Retail Applications can expose select task flows retailers can directly launch into. This feature is referred to as in-context launching in a Retail Application. Retailers can launch these task flows directly through specific URLs.

Retail Applications will provide information about the various task flows retailers can in-context launch into including the URLs and the required parameters.

Retailers 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.

When the user clicks on a URL to a task flow, the Retail Application will open in a new browser window or tab depending on the specified target of the URL. The requested task flow will be shown as a UI tab within the Retail Application.

Limitations of In-Context Launch via URLs

• The In-Context launch feature will not detect if there is an already opened window or tab for the Retail Application. So when a user clicks on a link to a Retail Application's task flow, say, a report on a BI server, a new browser window or tab will be opened even though the user already has an existing browser window or tab opened for that same Retail Application.

• If a BI dashboard is added on the Retail Application, and if that dashboard has a report that contains links to in-context launchable task flows in the same Retail Application, a new browser window or tab will still be opened.

List of In-Context Launch Task Flows

The Quick Create Allocation container is a quick way to create an allocation. Select a Source and optionally a Source ID along with an Item ID. You can specify that the items should be sourced from a particular warehouse. You can decide to go to the Worksheet for additional processing or to directly skip to the Allocation Maintenance window.

HTTP URL

http://<host>:<port>/alloc14/faces/Home?navModelItemId=quickCreateTF

Table 4-1 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 4-2 Load Allocation

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