Hello again,
So here's this week's question about using rich:pickList.
I have a wizard like interface that contains back, next, cancel commandbuttons, respectfully.
My want is to keep the Next button disabled (disabled="true") until such time that the user has provided input for required fields.
My approach of this has been ...
For each input control, do this:
<a4j:support event="onchange" reRender="nextbutton" />
and the set* method in the bean will call a routine to check if all required elements have data in them, e.g.,:
void areRequirementsMet() {
if(getDescription().length > 0 && getFileTypes().size() > 0) {
setDisable(false)
} else {
setDisable(true);
}
so after the the onchange event for the control, it sets the value and makes the call, e.g.,
public void setFileTypes(List<String> fileTypes) {
this.fileTypes = fileTypes;
areRequirementsMet();
}
after which point (at least the plan) is to then have the rerender of the next button and change context on when requirements met.
Problem is, I can't get this to work with picklist controls... here's what I'm trying:
<rich:pickList id="filetypes" value="#{mybean.filetypes}">
<f:selectItems value="#{mybean.filetypeItemsAvailable}" />
<a4j:support event="onchange" reRender="nextbutton" />
</rich:pickList>
But it would seem that the onchange doesn't appear to be getting picked up as I would have hoped and the call reRender never takes place.
I'm doing this like this:
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{mybean.companyID}">
<f:selectItems value="#{myBeans.companyItemsAvailable}" />
<a4j:support ajaxSingle="true" event="onchange" reRender="nextbutton" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
for a standard selectOneMenu and works like a champ so I assumed it would function in a similar manner. Apparently not. Can anyone help on this?
