status for <rich:suggestionbox component

[srinivas.sirigineedi]

Hi I have recently moved to richfaces this seems to be very good work by the richfaces team and support community. Thankyou.

With respect to <rich:suggestionbox>  the suggestionAction is fetching values from database and these values are taking a litte time.

Is there a way show a status icon or status text for th rich:suggestionbox so the user while typing doesnt need to wait and wonder why the results are not showing up in the popup box.

I tried with a4j:status but since the focus is lost the popup box is not shown. Any ideas on how to achieve this..?

[srinivas.sirigineedi]

I have acheived the above said functionality like this.

Since this suggestion box is happening inside a modal panel i have decided to show the text rather than another modal panel for the status.

<rich:suggestionbox id="suggestionBox" for="actN" ajaxSingle="true"
                        fetchValue="#{act.Num}"
                        suggestionAction="#{richBean.autoComplete}" var="acc" minChars="3"
                        height="200" width="200" status="searchStatus">
                        <h:column>
                            <h:outputText value="#{acc.accountNum}" />
                        </h:column>
                        <h:column>
                            <h:outputText value="#{acc.accountName}" />
                        </h:column>
                        <a4j:support event="onselect" ajaxSingle="true"  reRender="acctName" >
                               <t:updateActionListener value="#{acc.accountName}" property="#{richBean.currentItem.accountName}"/>
                        </a4j:support>
</rich:suggestionbox>
<a4j:status id ="searchStatus"  forceId="true" startText="Searching...."  startStyle="color:green;font: bold 8pt arial"/>

[ro86]

Thanks Srini,  This was very helpful.

This problem already has a jirra

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-8000