I'm having an issue with form submission not being successful because it trips up on the validation of some of the fields in the form. The general structure is as follows:
<h:form>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" id="pgMain" rendered="#{contr.shouldRender}">
<h:panelGrid columns="1" id="pg1">
<h:inputText id="text1" required="true"/>
</h:panelGrid>
<h:panelGrid columns="1" id="pg2">
<a4j:region>
<h:inputText id="text2" required="true"/>
<a4j:commandButton action="#{contr.addToList}" reRender="pg2,dt1"/>
</a4j:region>
</h:panelGrid>
<a4j:region>
<h:dataTable id="dt1" value="#{contr.myList}" var="curItem">
<h:column>
<h:outputText value="#{curItem}"/>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</a4j:region>
<h:panelGrid columns="1" id="pg3">
<a4j:commandButton action="#{contr.submitForm}" reRender="pgMain"
</h:panelGrid>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
As you can see from the code, the form contains four sections.
1) A panelGrid with an inputText (text1) that has required = "true"
2) A panelGrid with an inputText (text2) whose value gets added to the dataTable dt1 when the commandButton with action="#{contrl.addToList}" is fired. This is also required=true, but I only want it to be required when the addToList function is called.
3) A dataTable displaying values #{contrl.myList}
4) A panelGrid that submits the form and reRenders pgMain (which is conditionally rendered). In effect after the form is submitted, I want pgMain to disappear.
I have it working so that when the commandButton contained within pg2 is clicked, the validation for text1 is NOT fired. I do that by only reRendering pg2 and dt1.
The issue is, when I click the last command button in pg3, I want text1 to be validated, but NOT text2. Right now, the form cannot submit because it is catching the validation for text2.
I think the problem is because I tell the last commandButton to reRender pgMain which also contains text2, and is therefore being submitted with the form.
Does anyone have any ideas?
