Hi everyone!

I'm a bit new with JSF and Richfaces and i have a question i hope someone can anwser.

I'm dynamicly building a HtmlPanelMenu in Java, but i don't realy understand how to use the menu to navigate through my webapplication.

This is how i try to achieve it:

in my template:

<h:form id="form">
 <h:panelGrid id="paneldId" columns="2" columnClasses="cols"
 width="100%">
 <rich:panelMenu id="menuId" binding="#{userMenuController.panelMenu}" />
 </h:panelGrid>
 </h:form>

my backing bean

public class UserMenuController {

 private HtmlPanelMenu panelMenu = null;

 /*
 * The Spring Bean which provides the Kennisgebied services that do the JPA
 * queries
 */
 private KennisgebiedService kennisgebiedService;

 /**
 * @return the kennisgebiedService
 */
 public KennisgebiedService getKennisgebiedService() {
 return kennisgebiedService;
 }

 /**
 * @param kennisgebiedService
 * the kennisgebiedService to set
 */
 public void setKennisgebiedService(KennisgebiedService kennisgebiedService) {
 this.kennisgebiedService = kennisgebiedService;
 }

 /**
 * Creation of the <code>HtmlPanelMenu</code> based on the
 * 'Kennisgebieden', 'Kennisdomeinen' and 'Kennisdeelgebieden' found in the
 * model
 *
 * @return A HtmlPanelMenu witch can be used in
 * <code>kms-template.xhtml</code>
 */
 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 public HtmlPanelMenu getPanelMenu() {
 if (panelMenu == null) {

 panelMenu = new HtmlPanelMenu();
 panelMenu.setId("panelMenu");
 panelMenu.setStyle("width:100%");
 panelMenu.setMode("ajax");
 panelMenu.setIconExpandedGroup("disc");
 panelMenu.setIconCollapsedGroup("disc");
 panelMenu.setIconExpandedTopGroup("chevronUp");
 panelMenu.setIconGroupTopPosition("left");
 panelMenu.setIconCollapsedTopGroup("chevronDown");
 panelMenu.setIconGroupTopPosition("left");

 FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
 Application appl = facesContext.getApplication();

 Iterator iter = kennisgebiedService.getKennisgebieden(0, 0)
 .iterator();

 while (iter.hasNext()) {
 Kennisgebied kennisgebied = (Kennisgebied) iter.next();

 HtmlPanelMenuGroup menuItemKennisgebied = new HtmlPanelMenuGroup();
 menuItemKennisgebied.setLabel(kennisgebied.getTitel());
 menuItemKennisgebied.setName(kennisgebied.getTitel());
 menuItemKennisgebied.setIconCollapsed("triangle");
 menuItemKennisgebied.setIconExpanded("triangleDown");
 menuItemKennisgebied.setAction(appl.createMethodBinding("#{userMenuController.go}", new Class [0] ));


 Iterator iterKennisDomeinen = kennisgebied
 .getCollectieKennisDomein().iterator();
 while (iterKennisDomeinen.hasNext()) {
 Kennisdomein kennisdomein = (Kennisdomein) iterKennisDomeinen.next();
 HtmlPanelMenuItem menuItem_Kennisdomein = new HtmlPanelMenuItem();
 menuItem_Kennisdomein.setLabel(kennisdomein.getTitel());
 menuItem_Kennisdomein.setName(kennisdomein.getTitel());

 menuItem_Kennisdomein.setAction(appl.createMethodBinding("#{userMenuController.go}", new Class [0]));

 menuItemKennisgebied.getChildren().add(menuItem_Kennisdomein);
 }

 panelMenu.getChildren().add(menuItemKennisgebied);
 }
 }

 return panelMenu;
 }

 /**
 * Sets the panelMenu when a page is reloaded.
 *
 * @param panelMenu
 */
 public void setPanelMenu(HtmlPanelMenu panelMenu) {
 this.panelMenu = panelMenu;
 }

 public String go(){
 System.out.println("nav_to_kennisdomein_detailed: " + panelMenu.getSelectedChild());
 return "nav_to_kennisdomein_detailed";
 }
}

faces config:

 <navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>nav_to_kennisgebieden_overzicht</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/pages/kennisgebieden_overzicht.xhtml</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>
 <navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>nav_to_kennisdomein_detailed</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/pages/kennisdomein_detailed.xhtml</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>
 <navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>nav_to_kennisdeelgebied_detailed</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/pages/kennisdeelgebied_detailed.xhtml</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>
 <navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>nav_to_kenniskaart_detailed</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/pages/kenniskaart_detailed.xhtml</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>
 <navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>nav_to_kenniskaarten_overzicht</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/pages/kenniskaarten_overzicht.xhtml</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>
</faces-config>

Now i have 2 questions:

1) I now use the setAction on a HtmlPanelMenuItem and the seems to work. But when i do the same thing with my it does'n trigger the go() method. Does someone know if this is possible?

2) After selecting a item in my menu, the target page has to be filled with the specific data. I would espect that i can get a ID, and search it the items in my model. can someone give me some tips?

I hope someone can help me :)

Thnx in advance!

Jan-Martijn