1 Reply Latest reply on Jan 8, 2010 2:44 PM by nbelaevski

    referencing other component values in EL expression

    vc5

      hihi all,

       

      is there a way to reference other component values in an EL expression?

       

      for example i have a select html component and a command button.  when the user clicks on the command button i would like to pass in the value of the selected option from the select component to the function triggered by the command button.

       

      something like the following:

      <h:selectOneMenu id="languageField"  >
         <f:selectItem itemLabel="English" itemValue="eng" />
         <f:selectItem itemLabel="Spanish" itemValue="spa" />
      </h:selectOneMenu>
      
      <a4j:commandButton action="#{myBean.myFunction( languageField.value )}"/ >
      

       

      i've tried many things so far but just can't seem to get it working... is this possible?

       

      basically i want to have the function triggered as if it were like this:  #{ myBean.myFunction( 'eng' ) }

       

      it's kind of like mixing javascript into EL...

       

      tia!

      -v