RichFaces components in to String

[seamnewbie]

Hi, i'm new to RichFaces and not sure if I can do the following.

I'm creating a DataTable with some data in it. When this DataTable is shown to the user then will click on the Link. That link will take that datatable and save it to the String (buffer it) inside my backing bean. Then this string will go to the function where it will be exported to Excel file.

So how is it possible to store RichFaces/JSF components (Lables and DataTable together) into the String inside the code.

Thanks you in advance.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

the same as described there

http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Exporting_DataTable_To_MS-Excel

[seamnewbie]

Yeah, I've been on that website yesterday before I posted here my question. The problem there is that they are using Tomahawk Tag Library. In my app I'm using richfaces and wondering if we can do same thing in richfaces.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

certainly yes.. dataModel for any table is remains the same? ;) So just export your data with POI

[seamnewbie]

Yes, datatable should remain the same.
So, if this is possible to buffer Datatable to a string then how do I do that?
Is is possible to store other JSF components to a string so I can work with it later. For example if I have this:

Lable Header

 Lable Table1
 DataTable 1

 Lable Table21
 DataTable 2

Lable Footer

So, i want to enclose this to a buffer tag (same as they did in that Tomahawk example) to a variable.

Is there any examples of how to do that.

Thanks