Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

Time for action – passing parameters to a task flow

Let us see how to pass a parameter to createDepartmentFlow from the createEmployeeFlow bounded task flow:

1. Go inside createDepartmentFlow in the ViewController project of EmpDirectoryApplication.
2. Click on the Overview tab and select the Parameters section from the left-hand side.
3. Click on the + icon to add a parameter in the Input Parameter Definitions section.
4. Provide the Name as deptIdParam and tab out of the Name column. The Value section will be auto populated with #{pageFlowScope. deptIdParam}.
5. Provide java.lang.String in the Class column to define that the parameter that we are passing will be of a String type.
6. Select the Required option to make the parameter as the required value for the task ...