Opening a popup / Modal panel from Java code

[francis1970]

Hi all !
I have an action inside a column of a data table

<rich:column>
 <h:commandButton id="button1" action="#{dataItem.action}"
 style="font-size: 10px;" value="InCharge"
 </rich:column>

I need to open a pop-up or a a Modal panel from the "action" method. Can anybody give me a help how to do it ?
Thanks a lot
Francesco

[alespio]

"francis1970" wrote:
Hi all !
I have an action inside a column of a data table

<rich:column>
 <h:commandButton id="button1" action="#{dataItem.action}"
 style="font-size: 10px;" value="InCharge"
 </rich:column>

I need to open a pop-up or a a Modal panel from the "action" method. Can anybody give me a help how to do it ?
Thanks a lot
Francesco

Try this:

oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('your_panel_id')"

use action method to set panel content or do nothing. Where action terminate, the component raise oncomplete event

Good luck

[fabmars]

Personally I made such things in my code in the past days and I managed using the simple examples here:
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/modalPanel.jsf?c=modalPanel

[francis1970]

Hello, thanks for your answer.
I have checked the examples from live-demo,bt they use JavaScript to manipulate the Panel.

I'd rather need to create the panel from Java code because I need to save the dataitem object on DB.

Something like:

public void action() {

HtmlModalPanel panel = new HtmlModalPanel();

// Display content

// Persist dataItem object
}

Has anybody managed to do it ?
thanks again
Francesco

[ilya_shaikovsky]

just manipulate with showWhenRendered attribute. If you need the modal to be opened after it build in action - just set is to true.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

just manipulate with showWhenRendered attribute. If you need the modal to be opened after it build in action - just set it to true.

[francis1970]

here I'm again.
Thanks, your suggestion works. Anyway there's a last weird thing :-(
The modal panel disappears in a few seconds after. I can see that it's not even draggable like in the livedemo.

The modal panel is very simple

<rich:modalPanel id="mp">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Modal Panel Title" />
 </f:facet>

 <h:outputText value="text here: " />
</rich:modalPanel>

and it's called like this :

onclick="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('mp', {top:'10px', left:'10px',height:'400'});" value="#"

It's a IE bug or perhaps should I put the modal panel in a separate file ?
Thanks again and sorry for pestering so much !
Francesco

[fabmars]

http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=122261

[francis1970]

Ah finally I got it working! ! ! !

<a4j:commandButton>
instead of <h:commandButton>

and oncomplete
instead of onclick

Thanks a lot again :-) :-)

Francesco