Attaching AutoSubmit Property to a OA page.

Hi All,
I recently received couple of mails where people more or less have the requirement like :
1) Data of the page gets refresh every 10 sec automatically.
2) Data of the page should be autosaved every 10 seconds etc.

This is very similar to autosave feature of microsoft word or popular email websites like yahoo and google. A small javascript function can do this for you.Here are the steps how, you can achieve this functionality in an OAF page :

/**
* @param pageContext -current page context in CO
* @param evt_name - javascript event will be registered with this name.
* @param time_in_milli_sec - time in milli sec after which page will refresh
* e.g if you wanna submit page every 10 sec , enter 10000
* This api should be used in process request and not process form request.
*/
public void attachAutoSubmitPropertyToPage(OAPageContext pageContext,
String evt_name,
String time_in_milli_sec)
{
OABodyBean bodyBean = (OABodyBean) pageContext.getRootWebBean();
String javaS =
"javascript:setTimeout(\"submitForm('DefaultFormName',0,{'" +
evt_name + "':'Y'});\"," + time_in_milli_sec + ");";
bodyBean.setOnLoad(javaS);
}

/**
* @param pageContext -current page context in CO
* @param event_name - pass javascript event name that you registered
* in process request.
* @return return true/false accordinging whether the event has occured or not.
* This api call should be there in process form request.
*/
public boolean isAutoSubmitEvent(OAPageContext pageContext,
String event_name)
{
boolean b = false;
String s =
pageContext.getRenderingContext().getServletRequest().getParameter(event_name);
if (!((s == null) || ("".equals(s.trim()))))
{
if("Y".equals(s))
{
b = true;
pageContext.removeParameter(event_name);
}
}
return b;
}

Then , in process request add the api call

public void processRequest(OAPageContext pageContext, OAWebBean webBean)
{
super.processRequest(pageContext, webBean);
// see javadocs for parameter description
//10000 for 10 sec as we are paaing in millsec
attachAutoSubmitPropertyToPage(pageContext,"XX_EVT","10000");

.
.
.
}



In process form request... you can catch this event in every 10 sec:
public void processFormRequest(OAPageContext pageContext,
OAWebBean webBean)
{
super.processFormRequest(pageContext, webBean);
.
.

if(isAutoSubmitEvent(pageContext,"XX_EVT"))
{
// YOUR LOGIC TO SAVE THE PAGE CONTENTS.
//or to refresh the data... etc
}

I hope this is interesting and will help developers of such kind of requirement.
Happy Coding..!