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ADF: (re-)Introducing Contextual Events in several simple steps
0Communication between taskflows and pages, beans and other components in ADF Faces applications is in many cases ideally implemented using contextual events. These events are published from a producer component – a page, taskflow or associated bean – and made available to all interested parties. Events are handed over by the ADF run time infrastructure to any registered consumer in the current scope. This includes any taskflow or enclosing page which has been configured as such. This publish/subscribe model helps achieve interaction and reuse in a decoupled way. I like the principle. I have applied it on several occasions. And today I needed it again in a WebCenter Portal application with custom ADF 11g components. And once again I could not remember exactly how to implement the contextual events, the publication and subscription. This article therefore is primarily for me – so I can quickly recall how to do this in similar subsequent situations. However, if it is useful to you too, that is even better!
The use case discussed in this article is as follows:
The section in the red rectangle is a taskflow that has been embedded as a region in the page. This taskflow has indicated More >
ADF DVT Speed Date: Interactive Bubble Graph
0Recently the ADF SIG at AMIS organized an ADF DVT Speed Date. During this speed date six AMIS consultants presented their favorite DVT Component. In a series of blogposts we share the knowledge and findings. In this post you get introduced to the ADF DVT bubble graph. I will also show you how to make it interactive by clicking on the bubbles. The ability to make a graph interactive can be very usefull.
In the following bubble graph that we are going to create, the Life expectancy (y-axis), income a year (x-axis) and the population (bubble size) is shown. This in steps of 10 years, for the last 50 years (1970, 1980, 1990, 20000 and 2010). So for each country 5 bubbles are shown. The location of the bubble has a meaning; for example in Japan (grey) the life expectancy is the highest and in Pakistan the lowest (green). -Have developing countries moved forward their income? -Do they have longer lifes than 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago? A picture says more than thousand words – you can see it immediately in the graph.
Out of the box usage of ADF DVT Scheduling Gantt Chart to report Database Query Results using stacked bar charts per time period
0Gantt Charts in ADF are interesting components to visualize data that is organized according to time. The Gantt Charts have a horizontal time axis. In rows along the vertical axis, resources or tasks are displayed. The cells in this time/resource matrix represent information about the resource or the task at some point in time or more specifically: in some time period.
In this recent blog-article, I explained how we can use the Schedule Gantt chart to present results per resource per period using something closely resembling horizontal bar charts. The key thought is that when we present data associated with a standard period, we can use the Gantt Chart’s capability to set the length of the bar to express the size of the value in a specific period. More specifically: we can use the end date property to manipulate the length of the bar. This article we will take this one step further and create a Stacked Bar Chart for each resource for each period. In this case, I will present the number of Employees hired per Department per Year and do so using Stacked Bar Charts with segments per Job. The result – driven directly from SQL query in a read only ViewObject – looks like this:
We can More >
ADF DVT Speed Date : Meeting The Hierarchy Viewer
1Recently the ADF Special Interest Group at AMIS organized an ADF DVT Speed Date. During this speed date, six ADF specialists from our team presented their favorite Data Visualization Component from the DVT library. In a series of blog posts we share the information with a broader audience. In this post you get introduced to the Hierarchy Viewer – which was my own date for this party.
Introduction : The Hierarchy Viewer
A Hierarchy viewer is typically used to display hierarchical data. Examples of this are for instance a tree of life or a mindmap or even a family tree.
The ADF hierarchy viewer consists of several ADF components.
- dvt:hierarchyViewer : This element wraps the dvt:node and the dvt:link elements
- dvt:node : The dvt:node element supports the use of one or more f:facet elements that display content at different zoom levels (100%, 75%, 50%, and 25%).
- dvt:link : connects one node with another node
- dvt:panelCard : The panel card element provides a method to dynamically switch between multiple sets of content referenced by a node element using animation by, for example, horizontally sliding the content or flipping a node over.
A hierarchy viewer component requires data More >
ADF DVT: Thinking out of the box with the Scheduling Gantt Chart – Reporting by Period, for example Football Results over the years
0In various recent articles (such as Drag and Drop in ADF DVT Schedule Gantt) I have discussed the ADF DVT Gantt Chart component. And in these articles I have been describing the Gantt Charts as they were intended. However, something compels me to go beyond what was intended at the initial conception of the component. Just because I can, if for no other reason. So I am going to do just that in this article.
A Gantt Chart is basically a matrix report. The horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis represents tasks or resources and the cells or bars positioned on this time vs. resources grid present an allocation of sorts of the resource in time. The Resource Utilization Gantt in ADF DVT is a slight variation on the theme – and it is where I got some inspiration from. It does not take time as a continuum but rather divides time in periods (days, weeks, months, quarters, years etc.) and presents for each resource its utilization per period through vertical bars.
My improvisation no the theme is to take the Scheduling Bar Chart and do something similar: present data per period, only using horizontal bars. This not only provides me with yet another way of presenting data – which More >
ADF DVT Speed Date: Adding Drag & Drop to the Resource Schedule Gantt Chart to create a live presentation scheduler
0In a recent meeting of the AMIS ADF SIG we organized a speed date with six different DVT components (note: DVT == Data Visualization Tags, the library of rich data presentation component part of ADF). One of these components, the one that I represented during this speed date, is the Gantt Chart. This chart comes in three flavors, as I described in this article: http://technology.amis.nl/2013/02/16/adf-dvt-speed-date-meeting-the-gantt-charts/. These are the Resource Utilization Gantt Chart, the Project Gantt Chart (the archetypical Gantt Chart) and the Resource Scheduler (the most generic and flexible of the three).
In this earlier article introducing the Gantt Chart, I introduced the Resource Scheduler using the example of a Presentation Schedule that visualizes the agenda for a conference. The Resource in this case are the Rooms that holds the sessions and the chart contains bars plotted against a Room and the Time axis to represent all of the presentations:
In the article you are reading right now, I will explain how to create a Resource Schedule Gantt Chart such as the one shown here. Even more interesting, I will then explain how to add drag & drop capabilities to this chart More >
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