Is it possible to navigate from a PanelMenuGroup??? :)

[jan-martijnw]

Hi everyone,

I'm building my PanelMenu with a backingBean and i've run into a problem. My menu contains PanelMenuGroups and PanelMenuItems. It's no problem to access a navigation rule with a PanelMenuItem but I can't seem te get it work when i hit a PanelMenuGroup.

this is the code i'm talking about:

public HtmlPanelMenu getPanelMenu() {
 if (panelMenu == null) {

 panelMenu = new HtmlPanelMenu();
 panelMenu.setId("panelMenu");
 panelMenu.setStyle("width:100%");
 panelMenu.setMode("ajax");
 panelMenu.setIconExpandedGroup("disc");
 panelMenu.setIconCollapsedGroup("disc");
 panelMenu.setIconExpandedTopGroup("chevronUp");
 panelMenu.setIconGroupTopPosition("left");
 panelMenu.setIconCollapsedTopGroup("chevronDown");
 panelMenu.setIconGroupTopPosition("left");

 FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
 Application appl = facesContext.getApplication();

 Iterator iter = kennisgebiedService.getKennisgebieden(0, 0)
 .iterator();

 while (iter.hasNext()) {
 Kennisgebied kennisgebied = (Kennisgebied) iter.next();

 HtmlPanelMenuGroup menuItemKennisgebied = new HtmlPanelMenuGroup();
 menuItemKennisgebied.setLabel(kennisgebied.getTitel());
 menuItemKennisgebied.setName(kennisgebied.getTitel());
 menuItemKennisgebied.setIconCollapsed("triangle");
 menuItemKennisgebied.setIconExpanded("triangleDown");

//Does not work menuItemKennisgebied.setAction(appl.createMethodBinding("#{userMenuController.go}", new Class [0] ));


 Iterator iterKennisDomeinen = kennisgebied
 .getCollectieKennisDomein().iterator();
 while (iterKennisDomeinen.hasNext()) {
 Kennisdomein kennisdomein = (Kennisdomein) iterKennisDomeinen.next();
 HtmlPanelMenuItem menuItem_Kennisdomein = new HtmlPanelMenuItem();
 menuItem_Kennisdomein.setLabel(kennisdomein.getTitel());
 menuItem_Kennisdomein.setName(kennisdomein.getTitel());

// Does work menuItem_Kennisdomein.setAction(appl.createMethodBinding("#{userMenuController.go}", new Class [0]));

 menuItemKennisgebied.getChildren().add(menuItem_Kennisdomein);
 }

 panelMenu.getChildren().add(menuItemKennisgebied);
 }
 }

 return panelMenu;
 }

I hope someone can point me in right direction.

Regards,

Jan-Martijn

[grundor]

I am having the exact same problem and am wondering if you or anyone else has a workaround/solution.

In essence I have a PanelMenu with nested PanelMenuGroups. When a PanelMenuGroup is clicked I want the menu group to expand (default behavior) and also fire my action handler so I can navigate.

As the original poster has described, the action handler is not called for the group as it is with the item.

Regards,
Mark

[nbelaevski]

Jan-Martijn and Mark,

panelMenuGroup uses client-side switch by default. Set expandMode attribute to "server" or "ajax" value or set a4j:support to onexpand/oncollapse events.

[jan-martijnw]

"nbelaevski" wrote:
Jan-Martijn and Mark,

panelMenuGroup uses client-side switch by default. Set expandMode attribute to "server" or "ajax" value or set a4j:support to onexpand/oncollapse events.

Hi Mark and nbelaevski,

Thats right; adding

panelMenu.setExpandMode("ajax");

worked for me.

Still looking for a solution that a PanelMenuGroup wil not collapse when you hit it a second time. My PanelMenu does only allow that a single panelMenuGroup may collapse. But know i would like to keep ik collapsed when you hit it a seconde time.

Greetz,

Jan-Martijn

[nbelaevski]

Do you have expandSingle="true" for panel menu?

[jan-martijnw]

"nbelaevski" wrote:
Do you have expandSingle="true" for panel menu?

Yes, i have. That works fine. But because i use the HtmlPanelMenuGroup as a menuItem, i dont want it to collapse when you hit the samen button for the second time.

Greetz

Jan-Martijn

[grundor]

Thanks so much guys - switching my expandMode to ajax was exactly what I needed!