Hello All,

I have been working this for a while now and not really sure how to get
around it. I have a SelectOneMenu populated with selectItems inside a
form. The required attribute is set to true and the requiredMessage
attribute is set to "Please select a position". The form elements (including
the selectOneMenu) is nested inside a rich:modalPanel.

Without the modalPanel this problem doesn't occur, so I thought I would
ask you all for suggestions.

What happens is that since the selectOneMenu is required the messages
fire--the expected behavior BUT the selectOneMenu for some reason also
disables itself. Now, I am thinking that this "disabled" quality of the
selectOneMenu has something to do with the component loosing it value
and/or selectItems values--not sure though. The applicable code is listed
below:

<rich:modalPanel id="groupsAddPanel"
 width="500" height="450"
 style="background-color: #EEEECB;"
 binding="# {membersHandler.addNewMembers}">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:panelGroup>
 <h:outputText id="groupsAddPanelHeaderText"
 value="#{membersHandler.addMembersHeaderLabel}"/>
 </h:panelGroup>
 </f:facet>
 <f:facet name="controls">
 <h:panelGroup>
 <h:graphicImage value="/images/close.png"
 style="cursor:pointer"
 id="hidelinkAddGroups"/>
 <rich:componentControl for="groupsAddPanel"
 attachTo="hidelinkAddGroups"
 operation="hide" event="onclick"/>
 </h:panelGroup>
 </f:facet>
 <a4j:region id="groupsAddRegion">
 <a4j:form id="groupsAddForm" ajaxSubmit="true"
 rendered="true" status="groupAddStatusId" >
 <h:panelGroup id="groupsAddPanelGroup"
 rendered="true" >
 <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="0"
 id="addGroupsTable"
 style="background-color: #EEEECB;" >

 ....

 <tr>
 <td class="groupsTdLables">
 <h:outputText id="posLblGroupsAddForm"
 value="Position: "/>
 </td>
 <td colspan="3" class="addGroupsInputs">
 <h:selectOneMenu id="positionDropDown"
 valueChangeListener="#{membersHandler.positionSelected}"
 required="true"
 requiredMessage=" Please select a position!"
 value="#{membersHandler.dirtyMembers.srpMemLuId}"
 binding="#{membersHandler.membPosHtmlSelectOneMenu}">
 <f:selectItems
 value="#{membersHandler.generalSelectItem}"
 binding="#{membersHandler.membPosSelectItems}"/>
 <a4j:support event="onchange"
 reRender="positionDropDown"/>
 </h:selectOneMenu>
 </td>
 </tr>

 ......

 </table>

 <h:panelGrid id="groupsAddPanelButtonsPanelGrid"
 columns="3" style="text-align:center; width:100%;">
 <a4j:commandButton
 id="saveLinkAddGroupsPanel"
 value="#{srpBundle.hlinkSave}"
 styleClass="buttons01"
 tatus="groupAddStatusId"
 rendered="true"
 action="#{membersHandler.saveNewRow}"
 onclick="this.value='Processing...';
 this.disabled=true;"
 oncomplete="windowclose();">
 <a4j:support event="onclick"
 reRender="addGroupsTable"/>
 </a4j:commandButton>
 <rich:spacer id="blankspaceId" width="200px;" />
 <a4j:commandButton
 id="cancelLinkAddGroupsPanel"
 value="#{srpBundle.hlinkCancel}"
 styleClass="buttons01"
 status="groupAddStatusId"
 rendered="true"
 reRender="facStudRotcForm"
 immediate="true">
 <rich:componentControl
 id="richCmptCntrlCancelAddGroupsPanel"
 for="groupsAddPanel"
 attachTo="cancelLinkAddGroupsPanel" operation="hide" event="onclick"/>
 </a4j:commandButton>
 </h:panelGrid>
 </h:panelGroup>

 </a4j:form>
 <a4j:status id="groupAddStatusId"
 startText="One Moment Please..."
 stopText="Ready!"
 style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"/>
 </a4j:region>
 <rich:messages id="richMessagesBaseForm2"
 binding="#{membersHandler.htmlRichMessages}"
 style="text-align: left"
 passedLabel="Data is allowed to be stored."
 layout="list">
 <f:facet id="richMessagesBaseFormFacetHeader"
 name="header">
 <h:outputText id="baseFormOutPutText"
 value="Entered Data Status:">
 </h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <f:facet id="richMessagesBaseFormFacetPassed"
 name="passedMarker">
 <h:graphicImage id="baseFormImagePassed"
 value="/images/passed.gif"/>
 </f:facet>
 <f:facet id="richMessagesBaseFormFacetError"
 name="errorMarker">
 <h:graphicImage id="baseFormImageError"
 value="/images/error.gif"/>
 </f:facet>
 </rich:messages>
</rich:modalPanel>

I didn't see a need to post the valueChangeListern method because
according to my debugger I never get there. The require=true attribute
doesn't let the valueChangeListerner fire.

Any ideas?