modalPanel Question

[mattc1]

Hello,

I have a JSF page where I want to show a modal panel/window that has a form in it to create a new entity in our system. I can do this no problem if I create a modal panel that has the form in it and hook it up to a button to show/hide. The problem is I don't want the content of the modal panel form to be rendered (due to the amount data it loads) until the use selects to create a new entity. I can do this with some JS and the modal panel that contains an iframe. This is where the problems begin. I would like to use this pattern across our site and make it easy for developers to create a link that shows a modal panel that contains another JSF page. Is there a recommended / clean way to do this with RichFaces and JSF?

-matt

[nbelaevski]

Hi Matt,

Can you use AJAX instead of IFRAME?

[mattc1]

I can use whatever approach works best. How would you do this with AJAX? Includes?

[nbelaevski]

Not includes (doesn't seem like a simple solution), just render panel without data (small content size) and then re-render using actual data.

[mattc1]

Ok. Would I set some flag on the action of an a4j link that would cause the data to be fetched when I rerender the panel? Is that a common pattern for this type of approach.

-matt