Selecting item from list

[trixom]

Hi,

I am trying to get the following scenario working:

Start a conversation
Show a list of information
Select an item from list
Execute actions on this item (within the conversation)

I have tried using the scrollableDatatable but ran into a problem that to get it to work you need to bind it to a backing bean. This however cannot work in a conversation, so all the actions I try to use that require items from the conversation fail...

I have tried using the orderingList and activeitem but this has a lot of issues when using different browsers.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Tom

[trixom]

Somehow just posting here always seems to help:

This is how I got it working:

basically i use the xxxList.java object generated by seam-gen.

I add the following items:

private Country selectedCountry;

...
public Country getSelectedCountry()
{
   return this.selectedCountry;
}
   
public void setSelectedCountry(Country selectedCountry)
{
   this.selectedCountry = selectedCountry;
}

in the List.xhtml I have the following (parentList is CountryList):

<rich:scrollableDataTable
     value="#{parentList.resultList}" 
     var="country"
     height="200px"
     width="540px"
     rendered="#{not empty parentList.resultList}">
     <a:support
          event="onRowClick"
          action="#{parentList.setSelectedCountry(country)}"
          reRender="countryMenuPanel, countrySubPanel" />
     <h:column>
          <f:facet name="header">
               <s:link styleClass="columnHeader"
                    value="#{messages.id} #{parentList.order=='country.id asc' ? messages.down : ( parentList.order=='country.id desc' ? messages.up : '' )}">
                    <f:param name="countryOrder"
                         value="#{parentList.order=='country.id asc' ? 'country.id desc' : 'country.id asc'}" />
               </s:link>
          </f:facet>
          <h:outputText value="#{country.id}" />
      </h:column>
...

The panels that are rerendered are used to display the subobjects of the selected object and a menu in which I can delete and edit the selected object.

Thanks,

Tom