focus calendar problem

[rainw]

Hey,

I'm using rich:calendar in a simple page with only two h:inputText fields.
The calendar is not the first field on the page, but I need to set focus on it when I click the commandButton. I try to do this with focus attribute of commandButton.

<h:inputText id="input1" value="#{bean.value1} />
<h:inputText id="input2" value="#{bean.value2}" />
<rich:calendar id="test" value="#{bean.date}" enableManualInput="true"
popup="true" />

<a4j:commandButton focus="test" id="submit" reRender="page" />
<a4j:commandButton focus="input2" id=v2" reRender="page" />

When I click the commandButton rerender is ok, but no field is set on focus. When I do this for second h:inputText it works fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

use id of calendar + "InputDate".

 <rich:calendar id="myCal" popup="true" direction="auto" enableManualInput="true"/>
 <div style="height:200px"></div>
 <a4j:commandButton value="test" focus="myForm:myCalInputDate"></a4j:commandButton>

works fine ;)

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1332 - improvement.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

sorry. I was mistaken. In this case - form name is mandatory.

[rainw]

thanks, works fine.
but can you tell me why the form name is mandatory in this case?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Because calendar component has no own focus function at present. To use simplified focus id's - you need to use the id of the component. But there is no component with id = id of calendar + "InputDate" in tree . Only component with id = id of calendar.

If you will use form+id form - this will be found simply as element in DOM.