how to create dynmaic list inside panelBar

[waq]

Please see the attached image.

Actually i have different categories comming from the database which i want to make the label of the

rich:panelBar. And inside each bar i want to create the list that is shown in the picture. The list is also comming from the database based on the category value I used rich:dataDefinitionList for this purpose.

My question is how to make the list apear in two columns as shown in the picture? Also do i need to create seperate List object in the backing bean for every category?

Any suggestion or if you can refer me to any example that fits my scenerio.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

1) panel bar items could be iterated using c:forEach in order to create dynamically from some server side collection.

2) as for the lists itself them just encodes as standard html lists so should be just used in the same way.

[waq]

what if i use ui:repeat instead forEach? And i ll only put panelBarItem in the loop, right?

and how will i populate the richDefinationList then for the corresponding panelBarItem?

[waq]

is it how you are saying?

<rich:panelBar>
<ui:repeat value="#{allPeople}" var="person">
  <rich:panelBarItem label="#{person.fname}, #{person.lname}">
   <ul>
    <ui:repeat value="#{person.pets}" var="pet">
                                                            
     <li>
          .....                                                                       
     </li>
    </ui:repeat>
   </ul>
  </rich:panelBarItem>
</ui:repeat>
</rich:panelBar>

[waq]

after reading https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-4980 and trying the above example i come to know that we can not do it using ui:repeat. so can you give me some detail of how it works or refer any example for creating panelBarItem in a loop?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

http://in.relation.to/11633.lace

[waq]

thanks nice article. c:forEach works for me. but one thing i need to ask. i read it somewhere (in the some forum i guess) that JSTL is not fit for JSF. is that true?

[nbelaevski]

Are you asking about this: http://shrubbery.mynetgear.net/wiki/Using_taglibs_with_Facelets#JSTL_core_tags_in_Facelets_-_What.27s_that_about.3F?

[waq]

yes something like this. so as it suggests if there is an JSTL equilant available in JSF then gor for it other wise no problem using JSTL (like ForEACh)