Never mind. The missing piece was a4j:region. This is the
replacement for t:subform.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have this page that I've had working with tomahawk subforms for awhile.
>
> Now I'd like to change a couple of the subform submits into ajax
> partial page submits instead of full page submits.
>
> I'm a complete novice when it comes to using ajax -- I've managed to
> do some trivial stuff with it on other pages, but nothing more
> complicated than updating some status messages using a4j:poll.
>
> My actual page is rather complicated: A form over the whole page.
> Various input fields scattered over the page. One text input
> requires a trip to the server to update some displayed values.
> Another pulldown wrapped in a subform adds/removes input fields.
> Several buttons wrapped in subforms with no associated submitted
> inputs which populate input field values. Finally, one button which
> submits all rendered input fields.
>
> So I picked something I figured would be easy -- it's a pulldown that
> determines which other input fields are rendered. Here are the
> stripped-down, sanitized tags -- there may be typos that do not exist
> in the actual code.
>
> <t:subform id="listboxForm">
> <h:selectOneListbox
> value="#{page.newListboxValue}"
> >
> <f:selectItems
> value="#{page.listboxItems}"/>
> <sandbox:submitOnEvent
> for="executeListboxChangeButton" />
> </h:selectOneListbox>
> <t:commandButton
> id="executeListboxChangeButton"
> style="display: none"
> actionFor="listboxForm"
> value="Go!">
> </t:commandButton>
> </t:subform>
>
> My first thought was I could add the following to t:commandButton:
>
> <a4j:support event="onclick" disableDefault="true" reRender="area1,area2" />
>
>
> Then I tried dropping the subform, submitOnEvent, and commandButton
> and using ajaxsingle=true:
>
> <h:selectOneListbox
> value="#{page.newListboxValue}"
> >
> <f:selectItems
> value="#{page.listboxItems}"/>
> <a4j:support ajaxSingle="true"
> event="onchange" reRender="area1,area2" />
> </h:selectOneListbox>
>
> None of these seem to trigger the partial submit.
>
> I'm probably misunderstanding something fundamental. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
