7 Replies Latest reply on Oct 27, 2009 6:39 AM by thomasgo

rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

thomasgo Oct 23, 2009 5:17 AM

Hi,

We are trying to use a <rich:editor> in our application but using <a4j:commandLink> to update the view in an ajax way results in the editor not being rendered.

To clarify this a bit:

We have a page with multiple includes, one of which is called "content".
There is a navigation bean that sets the content area to the view with a specified name.

A link is then defined as follows:

<a4j:commandLink id="changeContentLink"
 actionListener="#{navigation.updateView}">
 <h:graphicImage value="/images/someicon.gif" />
 <f:param name="view" value="editorPage" />
</a4j:commandLink>

This works as far as the page navigation is concerned, i.e. when clicking the link, editorPage.xhtml is displayed in the content area and so are all standard components (like <h:outputText> and <h:inputText>).
However, the <rich:editor> component is not rendered correctly: The corresponding html markup seems to exist at least partially but nothing shows up.

Changing to <h:commandLink> the editor shows up, but now a full page refresh is performed.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

1. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

nbelaevski Oct 23, 2009 6:07 AM (in response to thomasgo)

Hi Thomas,

Does this happen in webkit-based (Safari, Chrome) browsers only? What is RF version? Is rich:editor placed in rich:modalPanel?
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2. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

thomasgo Oct 23, 2009 7:27 AM (in response to thomasgo)
No, we're currently only developing for IE (7 and 8) and Firefox (3.x).
I personally tested the issue in IE 8 and FF 3.5

The setup is approximately the following:

Our main.xhtml:
 <html ...> <body>  <div id="content"> <ui:insert name="content">  <ui:include src="/pages/content.xhtml" /> </ui:insert> </div>  </body> </html>

Our "editorPage" page:
 <ui:composition ...> <rich:panel> <h:form> <rich:editor id="editor" width="400" height="300" value=""> </rich:editor> </h:form> </rich:panel> </ui:composition>

When I click the link in another page the current "content" page is replaced with editorPage.xhtml.

As a side node: I ran another test on the IE and eventually the editor showed up and keeps showing. Even after clearing all of IE's caches that I have control of, the editor now shows up.

However, on a colleague's computer we ran another test in IE 8 and the editor didn't show up again. There we get a javascript error telling 'tinyMCE' is null in one of the javascript files.
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3. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

nbelaevski Oct 23, 2009 8:19 AM (in response to thomasgo)

When I click the link in another page the current "content" page is replaced with editorPage.xhtml.

Does this happen for AJAX or common requests?

What is RF version?
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4. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

thomasgo Oct 23, 2009 9:55 AM (in response to thomasgo)

Ah, sorry, forgot to mention the version: I'm using RichFaces 3.3.2.SR1 with JSF 1.2_12 and Facelets 1.1.14.

The replacement takes place in every case, i.e. with ajax and common requests. But only with ajax requests is the editor not rendered correctly.
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5. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

thomasgo Oct 25, 2009 2:18 PM (in response to thomasgo)

bump
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6. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

ilya_shaikovsky Oct 26, 2009 6:34 AM (in response to thomasgo)

could be problem with tinyMCE scripts loading. try to add rich:editor component with rendered="false" to main template. Then scripts should be loaded fine.
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7. Re: rich:editor not rendered when refreshing page with ajax

thomasgo Oct 27, 2009 6:39 AM (in response to thomasgo)

That works, thanks.
It's not a very nice workaround but if there's no other way it'll be ok.

Seems that error was reported some time ago: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=152748
(Jira issue: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-6573)
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