The following topics introduce the new and changed features of ADF Desktop Integration and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.
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Oracle ADF Desktop Integration 12c (12.1.3) includes the following new and changed development features for this document.
New property, AllowCancel
, for Status message. For more information, see Section 8.2.5, "How to Display a Status Message While an Action Set Runs."
New component, ADF Image component, to add images to integrated Excel workbooks. For more information, see Section 6.7, "Inserting an ADF Image Component" and Section A.8, "ADF Image Component Properties."
New properties (ResizeMode
and ResizeColumnsMode
) and a new action (ResizeColumns
) for ADF Table components. For more information, see Section 7.17, "Configuring Column Widths in an ADF Table Component."
New components, ADF Output Text (Worksheet Errors) and ADF Output Text (Table Errors), to display worksheet and table error messages. For more information, see Section 6.8, "Inserting Error Components."
New property, Tooltip
, to display tooltips for Form-type and Table-type components. For more information, see Section 6.9, "Displaying Tooltips in ADF Desktop Integration Form-Type Components" and Section 7.18, "Displaying Tooltips in ADF Desktop Integration Table-Type Components."
Customize workbook integration metadata at runtime. For more information, see Section 14.6, "Customizing Workbook Integration Metadata at Runtime."
For 12c (12.1.3), this document has been updated in several ways, to include corrections and clarifications. In addition, the following significant changes or additions have occurred in these sections:
Updated Section 11.3, "Checking the Integrity of an Integrated Excel Workbook's Metadata" to add a note that tamper-check is not performed for customization-enabled workbooks.
Updated Section 7.8.2, "What Happens at Runtime: How the ADF Table Component Uploads Data" and Section 7.10.2, "What Happens at Runtime: How the ADF Table Component Deletes Rows in a Fusion Web Application" to add a note that when the DeleteFlaggedRows
action is invoked on an ADF Table that has an Excel filter applied, the filter's criteria is cleared to show any hidden Excel worksheet rows.
Updated Section 14.3, "Publishing Your Integrated Excel Workbook" to add a note that customization-enabled workbooks can only be published to a target location that is under the public_html
directory.
Updated Section 14.5.2, "How to Configure Parameters Properties in the Integrated Excel Workbook" to add information about Workbook Parameter dialog that prompts you to enter test parameter values while entering test mode.