I have a PanelMenu and am have trouble getting it to remember its state between requests, viz when page reloads be expanded with the last selected item shown as selected.
<rich:panelMenu mode="server"
selectedChild="#{menuController.selectedMenuItem}"
iconExpandedGroup="disc" iconCollapsedGroup="disc"
iconExpandedTopGroup="chevronUp" iconGroupTopPosition="right"
iconCollapsedTopGroup="chevronDown">
<rich:panelMenuGroup label="Campaign Management" id="group_2">
<rich:panelMenuItem icon="/images/ficons/table_add.png" id="cm_1"
actionListener="#{menuController.select}"
action="#{campaignController.loadCampaignList}"
label="Manage Campaigns"></rich:panelMenuItem>
<rich:panelMenuItem icon="/images/ficons/table_multiple.png" id="cm_2"
actionListener="#{menuController.select}"
action="#{campaignController.loadNewCampaignForm}"
label="Create New Campaign"></rich:panelMenuItem>
</rich:panelMenuGroup>
</rich:panelMenu>
MenuController is a bean in session scope to track state:
public class MenuController
{
private String selectedMenuItem;
public String getSelectedMenuItem()
{
return selectedMenuItem;
}
public void select(ActionEvent event)
{
selectedMenuItem = event.getComponent().getId();
}
}
Debugging would seem to indcate that the code does what expect [1] the action listener fires, [2] the action method fires and returns the next view, [3] getSelectedMenuItem() fires returning the id of the last selected item.
However when the page relaods the menu is shown in collapsed state.
???
