rich:PanelMenu

[fanningr]

Hi,

I am having difficulty with rich:panelMenu component. I have narrowed it to the simplest case. I have a menu with two items created programatically. When i select a menu item it brings me to the page requested but then the menu items (+ menu groups if i had one ) become unclickable until the page is refreshed??

My backing bean has session scope using seam(see code)

I am using RichFaces 3.1.0 + JSF 1.2 + Facelets 1.1.12 + Seam 1.2.1

The problems exists in both IE & Firefox.

@Name("menu")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class MenuBean {

 private String selected = null;

 private HtmlPanelMenu pmenu = null;

 public MenuBean() {

 }

 public HtmlPanelMenu getPmenu() {

 if (pmenu == null) {

 Application app = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication();
 pmenu = (HtmlPanelMenu) app.createComponent(HtmlPanelMenu.COMPONENT_TYPE);

 pmenu.setMode("ajax");
 pmenu.setExpandSingle(true);

 HtmlPanelMenuItem pMenuItem0 = (HtmlPanelMenuItem) app.createComponent(HtmlPanelMenuItem.COMPONENT_TYPE);
 pMenuItem0.setName("Home");
 pMenuItem0.setId("Home");
 pMenuItem0.setLabel("Home");
 MethodExpression methodExpression = app.getExpressionFactory().createMethodExpression(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext(), "nav.home", null, new Class<?>[0]);
 pMenuItem0.setActionExpression(methodExpression);
 pmenu.getChildren().add(pMenuItem0);


 HtmlPanelMenuItem pMenuItem1 = (HtmlPanelMenuItem) app.createComponent(HtmlPanelMenuItem.COMPONENT_TYPE);
 pMenuItem1.setName("Templates");
 pMenuItem1.setId("Templates");
 pMenuItem1.setLabel("Templates");
 methodExpression = app.getExpressionFactory().createMethodExpression(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext(), "nav.templates", null, new Class<?>[0]);
 pMenuItem1.setActionExpression(methodExpression);
 pmenu.getChildren().add(pMenuItem1);


 }
 return pmenu;

 }

 public void setPmenu(HtmlPanelMenu menu) {
 pmenu = menu;
 }

 public String getSelected() {
 return selected;
 }

 public void setSelected(String selected) {
 this.selected = selected;
 }

<ui:composition>

 <rich:panelMenu binding="#{menu.pmenu}" selectedChild="#{menu.selected}"/>

</ui:composition>

Thanks for the help

Rich

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Move you binding to request scoped bean.

[maksimkaszynski]

So you use navigation together with ajax?
I do not recommend you to do it. Either use server mode, or no navigation.

[fanningr]

Thanks guys. Switched both of them & it worked a treat! Was under the impression that the expandMode set to ajax just influenced the menu loading & interaction (i.e. collapsing & expanding groups etc) and not to reRender components based on menu clicks. On thinking about it that that makes little sense!

Cheers

Rich