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Dialog Not Opening In A Popup Window In JDev 11g
We get a lot of questions at Oracle Support about the dialogs not opening in a separate, dialog window in JDeveloper 11g.
For example, suppose you specified the following:
faces-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
<application>
<default-render-kit-id>oracle.adf.rich</default-render-kit-id>
</application>
<navigation-rule>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>dialog:popup</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/popup.jspx</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
yourMainPage.jspx
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
<f:view>
<af:document>
<af:form>
<af:commandButton useWindow="true" action="dialog:popup" text="Open Popup"/>
</af:form>
</af:document>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>Note the following properties:
useWindow="true" action="dialog:popup"
that should open the page as a popup dialog.
This worked correctly in JDeveloper 10g
In JDeveloper 11g however, it opens popup.jspx in the same browser window as yourMainPage.jspx, and not in a dialog window.
The reason is that you used faces-config.xml to configure your navigation rule, instead of adfc-config.xml.
From the "Oracle® Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework",
Chapter 17 Creating Complex Task Flows,
topic "17.7 Running an ADF Bounded Task Flow as a Modal Dialog"
If your application uses ADF Controller features (for example, ADF task flows), specifying dialog: syntax in navigation rules within faces-config.xml is not supported.
However, you can use the dialog: syntax in the control flow rules that you specify in the adfc-config.xml file.
So you should specify the flow in adfc-config.xml:
adfc-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<adfc-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/controller" version="1.2">
<view id="main">
<page>/main.jspx</page>
</view>
<view id="popup">
<page>/popup.jspx</page>
</view>
<control-flow-rule>
<from-activity-id>*</from-activity-id>
<control-flow-case>
<from-outcome>dialog:popup</from-outcome>
<to-activity-id>popup</to-activity-id>
</control-flow-case>
</control-flow-rule>
</adfc-config>See also "A.3 Configuration in faces-config.xml"
Typically, you would configure the following in then faces-config.xml file:
- Application resources such as message bundles and supported locales
- Page-to-page navigation rules
- Custom validators and converters
- Managed beans for holding and processing data, handling UI events, and performing business logic
Note:
If your application uses the ADF Controller, these items are configured in the adfc-config.xml file. For more information, see the "Getting Started With Task Flows" chapter of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.
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