Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Add an isDirty attribute to your entity

Here is a useful Groovy expression that can be used to add a transient attribute to your Entity that will return true if any attribute in your entity is new or has been modified

 (entityState != 1)

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Then add this attribute to your view object and use it in an expression to highlight rows that have been modified and not yet commited,.

 inlineStyle="#{row.isDirty ? 'background-color:#FFF9B3;' : ''}"







 Here's another Groovy expression that will display the original posted value of any attribute in your entity that has been modified but not yet posted

adf.object.getPostedAttribute(adf.object.getAttributeIndexOf("Name"))

For an overview of using Groovy expression in ADF see this white paper by Grant Ronald


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2 comments:

  1. Stuart FlemingSeptember 27, 2014 at 7:50 AM

    This is a clean way to get the isdirty() without code, but only works if you change rows. I found that if you set autosubmit to true and set the partial page triggers for the changed field to the attribute ID it updates automatically.

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  2. Stuart FlemingSeptember 27, 2014 at 6:20 PM

    Also note that inline style applies to output text fields, while the contentStyle applies to input text fields.

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