Customized BPM 11g PS6 Workspace Application

I'm quite often using customized BPM 11g workspace application integrated into ADF 11g custom application. You can download it for BPM 11g PS5 from my previous blog: Tips & Tricks How to Run Oracle BPM 11g PS5 Workspace from Custom ADF 11g Application. Standard BPM 11g workspace ADF task flow is customized with MDS - ADF 11g PS5 Application with Customized BPM Worklist Task Flow (MDS Seeded Customization). I would like to present today updated workspace application to BPM 11g PS6. The reason to migrate customized BPM workspace to PS6 was because I'm often using it during ADF/BPM integration trainings. Also I will be posting future posts in ADF/BPM integration area based on upgraded PS6 sample application.

Here you can download new sample tested with BPM 11g PS6 - adfbpmapp_ps6.zip. ADF 11g PS6 comes with new look&feel - new ADF skin Skyros. New ADF skin and updated UI layout gives new look for BPM 11g workspace ADF task flow. Workspace ADF task flow shipped with BPM 11g PS6 release is lighter, works faster and looks better. Do you see Register button next to task list? This is custom button added through MDS customization:

You can see that user is given option to initiate new BPM process, view list of tasks assigned and finally access Human Task form. Human Task form for different steps is implemented using Generic Human Task Handler concept - Generic ADF 11g Human Task Handler Concept for Oracle BPM.

Sample application comes with BPM process. Once user redsam1 submits his task for further processing, task gets assigned for redsam2 user:

User redsam2 is granted access to the workspace, based on configured ADF Security settings, date is rendered as readonly. Data is fetched from DB based on process key:

If user redsam2 approves selected task, process steps are marked as completed:

List View - Cool Looking ADF PS6 Component for Collections

I'm very excited about ADF PS6 release, it brings new freshness and coolness feeling to ADF. ADF Faces runtime performance seems to be incomparable faster and much more responsive comparing to previous ADF 11g R1 and even ADF 11g R2 releases. This gives good hopes to expect the same improvements in ADF 12c. There is new ADF Faces component introduced - List View. You can think about it as about much more liberal ADF Faces table component. List View renders data collections but there is much more control and flexibility how data collection is presented visually. If you need to render strict tabular data - ADF Faces table is the most suitable, List View is for something less structured. We could achieve up till now similar layout as List View with custom implementation using ADF Faces iterators or for each tags. Of course it is much easier now to use out of the box List View tag - Displaying a Collection in a List.

Here you can see fragment structure for my sample application with List View usage - ListViewApp.zip:

There are two types of List View implemented here - simple and hierarchical one. Simple List View renders collection in a list, there is option to load more rows from the collection on demand. Hierarchical List View renders Department - Employees master detail data:

Simple list is configured with the same property values as regular ADF Faces table:

Collection row is rendered within List View using List Item tag - this is where actual output or input ADF Faces component is implemented:

List View with editable popup functionality - launched from Edit button. Edited data is synchronized with data rendered in List View immediately:

Hierarchical List View is configured with the same properties as regular ADF Faces tree would be configured - pointing to treeModel instead of collectionModel as for the ADF Faces table. There is groupHeaderStamp facet - it allows to render data grouping:

Second level data is rendered under List Item tag:

In the page definition, there is regular tree collection definition as usual:

Hierarchical List View provides really good view of hierarchical data and it renders fast. Here viewing employees by departments:

One more small thing: I noticed in PS6 after session timeout - screen becomes black, looks good: