RichFaces 4 and keeping panelMenu state

[siteburn]

Hello,

i would like to keeping the state of the menu, when i click on a "panelMenuItem" with an "action-Attribut", look at my following example (Item 1.1 with an action-Attribut).

<rich:panelMenu style="width:200px" itemMode="ajax" groupMode="ajax"
    groupExpandedLeftIcon="triangleUp"
    groupCollapsedLeftIcon="triangleDown"
    topGroupExpandedRightIcon="chevronUp"
    topGroupCollapsedRightIcon="chevronDown" itemLeftIcon="disc">
    <rich:panelMenuGroup label="Group 1">
        <rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1.1" name="Item_1_1" action="myTest"/>
        <rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1.2" name="Item_1_2" />
        <rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1.3" name="Item_1_3" />
    </rich:panelMenuGroup>
</rich:panelMenu>

I tried this: http://www.shareyourwork.org/roller/ralphsjavablog/entry/richfaces_panelmenu_how_to_save but no success!

please someone can help me?

thanks.

greez siteburn

[siteburn]

no solution or workaround for this problem?

at the richfaces-showcase-menu on http://richfaces-showcase.appspot.com/ is the expand state of the left menu save, but how? It's a dynamically created menu...

[simkam]

Hi,

you can look at showcase sources here: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/richfaces/trunk/examples/richfaces-showcase/

also look at activeItem attribute of rich:panelMenu and expanded attribute of rich:panelMenuGroup

[siteburn]

thanks for you answer.

i looked at the navigation.xhtml (template), but no expanded attribute at rich:panelMenuGroup, but a "activeItem" attribute at rich:panelMenu.

code of navigation.xhtml:

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
    <rich:panelMenu activeItem="#{demoNavigator.currentDemo.id}">
        <c:forEach items="#{demoNavigator.groups}" var="gr">
            <rich:panelMenuGroup label="#{gr.name}"
                rightExpandedIcon="#{gr.newItems ? '/images/icons/new-ic.gif' : null}"
                rightCollapsedIcon="#{gr.newItems ? '/images/icons/new-ic.gif' : null}">
                <c:forEach items="#{gr.demos}" var="d">
                    <rich:panelMenuItem label="#{d.name}" action="#{d.id}"
                        mode="client" name="#{d.id}"
                        rightIcon="#{(d.newItems || gr.newItem) ? '/images/icons/new-small-ic.gif' : null}"
                        onclick="document.location.href='#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/richfaces/component-sample.jsf?demo=#{d.id}&amp;skin=#{skinBean.skin}'">
                    </rich:panelMenuItem>
                </c:forEach>
            </rich:panelMenuGroup>
        </c:forEach>
    </rich:panelMenu>
</ui:composition>

the navigation beans are there http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/richfaces/trunk/examples/richfaces-showcase/src/main/java/org/richfaces/demo/common/navigation/

But i can't find or understand the right codesegment for saving the menu state. It's to complex for my application.

can you help me to find the right code?

thanks.

[simkam]

Just save active item in session scoped managed bean. PanelMenuGroup with active item will stay expanded. In theory, I can't try it now.