Open a modal panel on page load

[francof]

I want to open a modal panel when a page is first called and also start a new Seam conversation.

So I tried these 2 options

<s:button id="createCatalogItem" value="Create catalog item" view="/catalogItemEdit.xhtml" propagation="none" >
 <f:param name="catalogItemId"/>
 <f:param name="catalogItemProductClassId"/>
 <rich:componentControl for="chooseProductClassPanel" attachTo="createCatalogItem" attachTiming="immediate" operation="show" event="onclick"/>
</s:button>


<a4j:commandButton id="createCatalogItem2"
 value="Create catalog item"
 action="#{catalogItemHome.createNewCatalogItem()}" >
 <f:param name="catalogItemId"/>
 <f:param name="catalogItemProductClassId"/>
 <s:conversationPropagation type="none"/>
 <a4j:support event="onclick" oncomplete="#{rich:component('chooseProductClassPanel')}.show()"/>
</a4j:commandButton>

In both cases, the modal panel displays briefly but does not stay open.

What is the right way to do this ?

[francof]

Sorry for bumping this up.


Is this possible? - I am not sure but I think I remember reading somewhere that you can open a modalpanel when a page is called. I can't find it in the Richfaces book.

If this is not possible, I can think of an alternative UI for my use case.

[six-p4ck]

to open a modal at the start of the page i do this:

<ui:define name="body">
//page code


<rich:modalPanel id="myModal">
//modal code
</rich:modalPanel>

<script type="text/javascript">
Richfaces.showModalPanel('myModal');
</script>

</ui:define>

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Set showWhenRendered="true"

[francof]

Thanks for your replies, six-p4ck & Nick

Nick - showRendered works great, thanks I missed that in the reference guide.