I faced a similar problem when using conditionally rendered panes. The best solution I found was to render them all with JSP but use javascript to hide the unused panes. Works like a charm and is actually better as I can switch the rendered pane without requiring a round-trip to the server.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruno Aranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:52 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: Conditionally rendered fields not retaing values I have two choices in my mind now. One is more elegant than the other, which is a hack actually. The more elegant is to use the sandbox s:subForm component [1]. I haven't used it myself so I cannot be or more help. The hack is to click with javascript an invisible button with the immediate that sends the form, something like this: <h:selectOneRadio ... onclick="document.getElementById('hiddenButton').click()" immediate="true" valueChangeListener="#{ServiceBean.hardwareTypeChanged}"> ... </h:selectOneRadio> <t:commandButton style="visibility:hidden" immediate="true" action="nothing"/> Note that both the selectOne and the button are immediate="true". It is an ugly hack, so the subform option is a better approach... Bruno [1] http://myfaces.apache.org/sandbox/subForm.html On 6/13/06, Meghana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno, > Thanks a lot! That was it. One side effect though. It seems to > validate and show the error messages for the required fields and > others. Any idea how to circumvent that? > -M > > > > Bruno Aranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does it work if you remove the immediate="true" attribute from the > selectOneRadio (see this docs to see if you really need it [1]), and > remove the facesContext.renderResponse() line (not needed). > > Let's see! > > Bruno > > [1] > http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/How_The_Immediate_Attribute_Works > > On 6/13/06, Meghana wrote: > > I am sorry I should have included my code snippet before itself. > > Here we go! > > > > > > > > onclick="submit()" immediate="true" > > valueChangeListener="#{ServiceBean.hardwareTypeChanged}"> > > > > > > > > public void hardwareTypeChanged(ValueChangeEvent event) throws > > SQLException, Exception{ FacesContext context = > > FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); > > String prevCategorySelected = (String)event.getOldValue(); String > > newCategorySelected = (String)event.getNewValue(); > > > > > if(!newCategorySelected.equalsIgnoreCase(prevCategorySelected)){ > > // Value changed. Change the drop down values. > > if(newCategorySelected.equals("Desktop")){ > > desktopSelected = true; > > debug("Setting desktopSelected field to: > > "+isDesktopSelected()); > > } > > else if(newCategorySelected.equals("Laptop")){ > > laptopSelected = true; > > debug("Setting laptopSelected field to: > > "+isLaptopSelected()+" Laptop Type: "+laptopType); } > > context.renderResponse(); } } } > > > > Based on what hardware type is selected Desktop items/laptop items > > are displayed. > > The code for that is > > > > rendered="#{ServiceBean.desktopSelected}"/> > > > > > > id="desktop_type"> > > > > itemLabel="Standard User Desktop" /> > > > > itemLabel="Non User Desktop" /> > > > > > > > > > > rendered="#{ServiceBean.laptopSelected}"/> > > > > > > id="laptop_type"> > > > > itemLabel="Standard User Laptop" /> > > > > itemLabel="Power User Laptop" /> > > > > > > > > > > rendered="#{ServiceBean.laptopSelected}"/> > > > > > > id="docking_station"> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > rendered="#{ServiceBean.laptopSelected}"/> > > > > > > id="wireless_access"> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bruno Aranda wrote: > > > > And what about the "immediate" attributes? Are you using them? Can > > you show an snippet of your code? > > > > Bruno > > > > On 6/13/06, Meghana wrote: > > > Its already in session scope :-( > > > > > > > > > Bruno Aranda wrote: > > > > > > Could you try if that works if your bean is in session scope? > > > > > > Bruno > > > > > > On 6/13/06, Meghana wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a form in which the displayed input fields change based > > > > on a > > radio > > > > button field. When ever the field value is changed a > > > > corresponding valuechangelistener method is called and then the > > > > new set of input > > fields > > > > are displayed. But the values entered for those conditionally > > > > rendered fields are not retaining values in the backing bean. > > > > They are all > null. > > > I've > > > > been banging my head over this for quite a while. > > > > Any ideas please! > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > -M > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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