programmatic starting a list of conversations

[tschnoelzer]

Hi Folks,

I have to start a list of conversations out of a selection page. The user should select some cars that he has to build and calculate one by one after.

Using the annotations in the conversational bean ewerything is working for creating a SINGLE conversation with a link ore button. Now I have to model the "opening multiple conversations at once" usecase.

Any help more than welcome

All the best from germany


Timo

[pmuir]

You can't have more than one active conversation.

[tschnoelzer]

Hi Pete,

it is clear to have only one active converstion. I need a list of conversations for choosing the one I work on with the workspace switcher.

Talking in seam example "hotel booking" it is like choosing x (e.g. 4) hotels from the hotel list, than switch one by one for booking using the workspace pulldown.

In my project, order people choose e.g. 10 cars from a list and than choose options and calc one by one while switching their workspace.

So I need to do something like:

Contexts.getConversationContext().add(new CarManagedBean(carId));

Thx for any info!!!!


Timo

[tschnoelzer]

Hi all,

once more to the point

List listOfCars;

iterate over list of cars{

Contexts.getConversationContext().add(new CarManagedBean(car.carId));

}

forward to info page with workspace switcher

Timo

[tschnoelzer]

Hi team,

please be so kind and help me. There should be knowledge out there!

Thx

Timo

[pmuir]

So, you want to start multiple workspaces at once?

[tschnoelzer]

Hi Pete,

yes, I have a List of Cars and the user checks several of them. With this list of n cars I wan't to begin n conversations, making the first active.

in the conversation switcher I like to have the n Conversations where the user can switch and work on one by one.

Any useful idea?

Thx at all

Timo

[pmuir]

I don't think you can begin multiple long running conversations in the same request with Seam.

[tschnoelzer]

One can start multiple "long" running conversations in seam using the API. But I have to start simple "short" conversations that are managed in the workspace manager / switcher. Here i miss the API to do this...

:-(

[muhviehstarr]

Did you find any solution for your problem, because I want to do a similar thing.

[dhinojosa]

@Timo

Show us your page, where the user selects the cars. ;) Maybe we can find something for you.

Danno

[muhviehstarr]

For my needs I found the following solution.

To build multiple independent conversations I use this code to create one conversation:

Conversation.instance().root();
Conversation.instance().begin(false, true);

[tschnoelzer]

Hi folks,

some movement, looks great -> thx.

So 1st of all i have a list on the xhtml page. this list has a checkbox for each row. when submited i like to start one conversation for each checked row. i expect to find the list of conversations e.g. in the conversation switcher.

i have to start those conversations programatically. as a workaround i removed the checkboxes and use links to start a conversation with a new page. after, the user has to go back to the list and start the next and so on.

I now will try muhviehstarr hint.


thx again

Timo

[dhinojosa]

Uhm, so after the page where they select the cars, if they select 10 cars, and 10 popup pages going to appear?

[tschnoelzer]

Hi,

i did not find a solution :(

btw: this should be a common problem...

Thx for any input


Timo