togglePanel initState use

[astarte]

Hello I have a jsp page that contains the following (simplified) standard toggle panel code

<rich:togglePanel initialState="tip0" switchType="client" stateOrder="tip0,tip1,tip2">
<f:facet name="tip0">
..... some stuff .....
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="tip1">
......some stuff .....
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="tip2">
......some stuff .....
</f:facet>
</rich:togglePanel>
I'd like to be able to set the initialState depending on where I am navigating to this page from.
I've tried a number of things, including simply setting a param
earlier in the page as such
<f:param name="togis" value="tip2"/>
and then
<rich:togglePanel initialState="#{togis}" switchType="client" stateOrder="tip0,tip1,tip2">
just to see if I could make it work, but it still defaults to the first facet.
I am totally new to jsp/jsf programming, so it may be that I am missing something very obvious?
Thank you
Gaby

[ma.aqcon]

Page flow control (where i am, where i am coming from) is a big gap in JSF. To control that you need an additional framework like Apache Shale or JBoss Seam.

But there might be a workaroung which helps you without using one of the additions:
Create an attribute in your backing bean

private String initialTogglePanel;
...

and use this in your page:

<rich:togglePanel initialState="#{BackingBean.initialTogglePanel}"

Set the value of initialTogglePanel in your action method which is called from your previous page, e.g.

public String moveToTogglePage() {
 initialTogglePanel = "tip1";
 return "action_to_toggle_page";
}

Hope that helps!

[astarte]

Thanx for the tip, I figured I would have to use a backing bean. The refeering page currently navigates via an image map, I am not sure how I would implement the backing bean setting call into that?

[astarte]

Figured it out!