custom home with required=true...

[kmranganathan]

Hi,
I want to build a custom page - just to maintain a list of master titles - page will have one text field, add button. When add is clicked, title will be added and shown in the same page in a list box. Besides the list box, a Delete button will be provided which when clicked will delete the entity.

The problem I face is: The text is mandatory while adding - so,I have a required=true against it. Now, when 'Delete' is clicked without entering text, it throws an error and delete is not invoked. How do I handle this?

Thanks,
Ranga.

[sean.tozer]

Depending on what kind of button it is, you could try using immediate="true" or ajaxSingle="true" on it, so as to ignore the rest of the form inputs when it fires.

[thokuest]

You can handle it by placing input text box / add-button and list box / delete-button in separate forms. This is a simple (and incomplete) example:

<h:form id="creationForm">
    <!-- input field goes here -->
    <a4j:commandButton action="#{bean.action}" value="Create" reRender="deletionFormPanel" />
</h:form>

<a4j:outputPanel id="deletionFormPanel">
    <h:form id="deletionForm">
        <!-- list box and delete-button goes here -->
    </h:form>
</a4j:outputPanel>

I don't recommend the solution with immediate="true" / ajaxSingle="true" because it implies other problems.

Hope that helps!

[kmranganathan]

Hi,
Using the 2 Forms is working.

Thanks very much,
Ranga.