commandButton problem

[pdaniel]

Hello. When i include a page with <a4j:include and in that page i have a command button, this does not work. If i put the same button in the main page not in the included one the problem is solved. Why i cannot use this command button in a included file?

[pdaniel]

Any idea?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

But what did you mean by not working?? It's very hard to tell anything using such description. I can answer you - look at demosite.. all works fine there.

[pdaniel]

I have a search page. When i click on search button the table is populated with data. This table is included in the main search page. In these table page i have a button, next... When i click on the next button the new page that this button calls is rendered (but this only after the page refresh : F5) in place where my table was rendered, not replacing the entire page. So i will have the search options and under the search options i have this new page rendered on a partial area. Also i have a javascript error : Object Required. this error appears even when the works properly.

[sergeysmirnov]

code snippet is much better than millions of words

[pdaniel]

ok, here it is :

main search page:

<a4j:portlet
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j">
<f:view>
<h:form id="portlet_form">
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputLabel for="ss" value="ss:" />
<h:inputText label="ss" value="#{bean.ss}" id="ss"/>
<h:outputLabel for="mm" value="mm:" />
<h:inputText label="mm" value="#{bean.mm}" id="identityNumber"/>
<h:outputLabel for="rr" value="rr :" />
<h:inputText label="rr" value="#{bean.rr}" id="rr"/>

<a4j:commandButton action="#{controller.executeSearch}" value="Search" reRender="documentSearchResults" />

</h:panelGrid>
<!--<a4j:commandButton action="newdocument" value="Next" />-->
<a4j:include viewId="/portlets/myportlet/jsf/xhtml/include/result_table.xhtml" rendered="true" />

</h:form>
</f:view>
</a4j:portlet>

result_table page

<f:subview id="resultTable"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:t="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<h:panelGroup id="documentSearchResults">
<rich:dataTable var="docsearch" rendered="#{not empty bean.listBean}" value="#{bean.listBean}" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
<f:facet name="header">
<rich:columnGroup rendered="true" >
<rich:column rendered="true">
<h:outputText value="Id"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column rendered="true">
<h:outputText value="tdd"/>
</rich:column>
....................................
<rich:column rendered="true">
<h:outputText value="actions"/>
</rich:column>
</rich:columnGroup>
</f:facet>
<rich:column>
<h:outputText value="#{docsearch.docId}"/>
</rich:column>
<rich:column>
<h:outputText value="#{docsearch.tdd}"/>
</rich:column>
................................................................................
<rich:column>
<!--<a4j:form>-->

<a4j:commandButton actionListener="#{controller.executeView}" value="#{docsearch.docId}" image="/images/edit.gif" reRender="table" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('panel');" />
<a4j:commandButton actionListener="#{controller.executeView}" value="V" reRender="table" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('panel');">
<a4j:actionparam name="doc_view_id" value="#{docsearch.docId}"/>
</a4j:commandButton>
<!-- </a4j:form>-->
</rich:column>

<f:facet name="footer">
<a4j:commandButton action="newdocument" value="New document" />
</f:facet>

</rich:dataTable>
</h:panelGroup>
<a4j:include viewId="/portlets/myportlet/jsf/xhtml/include/panel/document_view_panel.xhtml" rendered="true" />
</f:subview>

Where i've put ................. I've replaced portions of the code to be a smaller post :)

My problem is when i click on "New document"

faces-config

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>*</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>newdocument</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/portlets/myportlet/jsf/xhtml/newdocument.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

[pdaniel]

Any idea why the button does not work?

[sergeysmirnov]

at least, you have to provide an id for commandButton explicitly. Try this first.

[pdaniel]

"SergeySmirnov" wrote:
at least, you have to provide an id for commandButton explicitly. Try this first.

I don't quite understand. You mean that i have to do something like :

<a4j:commandButton actionListener="#{controller.executeView}" id="myid" value="V" reRender="table" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('panel');">

or that i have to give in the faces-config an ID for from-view-id? If this is the case i've done this already without result.

[viggo.navarsete]

pdaniel: Did you finally manage to fix this? I have a similar situation, with a search input field, a button (a4j:commandButton or h:commandButton..?), and a searchresult which is supposed to be shown to the user when he push the button. But I'm _NOT_ able to do it by ajax, to reRender a component based on the button pushed, it doesn't even seem like the action method is called. I'm confused!!

[pdaniel]

No i didn't managed to resolve it, you?

[viggo.navarsete]

no I didn't, and I haven't found any good examples either. Hopefulle someone at the Richfaces/Ajax4jsf team can come up with some tutorials/examples on these very normal use cases.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Please create jira issue. Provide war with sources, libs and steps to reproduce described. It will be fastest way to reproduce and solve this.

Under our tests examples - this works..

[pdaniel]

I haven't seen any example regarding this classic use-case. Can you point us to this example?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I mean internal tests. Provide your own for investigations.