Hello,

we are trying to use panelMenu as a navigation menu for our pages, similar to the Live Demo Site.

So we need to keep the selected item between requests. Thats not difficult, we're using the following code:

<h:form>
 <rich:panelMenu id="#{mainMenu.menuId()}"
 expandSingle="true"
 selectedChild="#{mainMenu.currentItemId}" >

 <rich:panelMenuGroup name="g1" expanded="true" label="Group 1">

 <rich:panelMenuItem name="g1:i1" label="Item1"
 action="#{mainMenu.activateView('/testViewG1I1.xhtml','g1:i1')}" />

 <rich:panelMenuItem name="g1:i2" label="Item2"
 action="#{mainMenu.activateView('/testViewG1I2.xhtml','g1:i2')}" />

 </rich:panelMenuGroup>

 <rich:panelMenuGroup name="g2" expanded="true" label="Group 2">

 <rich:panelMenuItem name="g2:i1" label="Item1"
 action="#{mainMenu.activateView('/testViewG2I1.xhtml','g2:i1')}" />

 ...

 </rich:panelMenuGroup>


 </rich:panelMenu>
</h:form>

"mainMenu" is a simple Component to track the current item:

@Name("mainMenu")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class MainMenu {

 private String currentItemId;
 private static final String MENU_ID = "mainMenu";

 public String getMenuId() {
 return MENU_ID;
 }

 public String activateView(String AViewName, String AItemId) {
 setCurrentId(AItemId);
 return AViewName;
 }


 public String getCurrentId() {
 return currentItemId;
 }
 public void setCurrentId( String ACurrentId ) {
 currentItemId = ACurrentId;
 }
}

Unfortunately, the panelMenuGroup collapses always after a request; it doesn't care the selected item.

My questions are:
Do i need to track the expanded state of the group also?
If so, how can i do that in an easy way?
How works it on the Live Demo site?

We're currently using RF 3.2.2.GA, but the problem still occurs with 3.0-releases.

Thanks for any help,
Raimund