How to make a4j:support work under rich:tabpanel ?

[charlesyang]

Hi,
I try to make a4j:support work under rich:tabpanel, but the backbean function no matter what just not get called. In other case, a4j:support need be inside <h:form> </h:form> in order to get it work. But if you do that with the tabpanel, then the tabpanel will not work (click no longer change the panel). Here is some xhtml code shows what I try to do:

<rich:tab label="A-Lable">
<rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax">
<rich:tab label="Tab1" >
<a4j:support event="onclick"
ajaxSingle="true"
action="#{myBean.functionA}" />
<a4j:include viewId="/another.xhtml" />
</rich:tab>
.....

I changed switchType to client then server, all not work. Tab worked fine except this a4j support thing. All I want to do is to call a back bean function when user clicked a tab, don't have to be a4j:support if there is some other way let me get around this problem. Can someone point out what I did woring or is there any other way ?

Thanks...

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

You are probably having nested forms, is it so? Also check "onlabelclick" event.

[charlesyang]

Thanks for the reply, actually I don't have nested forms. When I added forms around tabpannel, I see some pannle appeard below the tabpannle screen, when clicke that newly added area, backBean function get called, but that is not I want.

I was hopping that 2 tabs can share some of the same sets of the xhtml fiels, while I dynamically switch the the bean instance(same class, different instance) when tab get clicked, due to that 2 taps business logic mostly are the same.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I'm not sure why you need support at all. tab has action attributes and the actions will be fired after tab clicked.

[charlesyang]

tabpannel has an action class ? really ? I was searching for that, but can't find that action attributes at: http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/3.3.1.GA/en/tlddoc/rich/tabPanel.html

[nbelaevski]

Tab has "action" attribute (either as related ones), not tabPanel.

[charlesyang]

got it. Thanks for the help.