Calling Concurrent Program From OA Framework Pages

Calling a concurrent program from an OAF page is most frequently used functionality in oracle apps. It helps us to achieve the customized functionality in a page.

OA Framework provides the ConcurrentRequest class to call a concurrent program from the pages. The submitRequest() method of ConcurrentRequest is used for calling a concurrent program. The submitRequest() method takes 6 parameters and returns request id of the submitted concurrent request. Following is the syntax to use this method:

public int submitRequest( 

String ProgramApplication ,

String ProgramName ,

String ProgramDescription ,

String StartTime,

boolean SubRequest,

Vector Parameters ) throws RequestSubmissionException

Here are the descriptions of each of the components in the method:

ProgramApplication -Application Short name of application under which the program is registered.

ProgramName - Concurrent Program Name for which the request has to be submitted.

ProgramDescription - Concurrent Program Description.

StartTime - Time at which the request should start running.

SubRequest - Set to TRUE if the request is submitted from another running request and has to be treated as a sub request.

Parameters - Parameters of the concurrent Request.