I am experimenting with rich:hotKey and I would like this to simulate an a4j:commandButton click.

Below is code that opens a modal panel after calling an action.

I got this to work with a combination of a4j:jsFunction and rich:hotKey, but I would rather just simulate a click to the button so I do not have to duplicate the action, oncomplete, status, and reRender in the a4j:jsFunction declaration.

At the bottom of my code sample I tried to get this to work with Event.fire, but it did not work.

I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to make this work.

<a4j:commandButton status="commonstatus0"
 id="createPipePO"
 title="Create PO"
 value="Create PO"
 style="background: transparent; border-style: none;"
 immediate="true"
 action="#{poPipeForm.loadNew}"
 oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('editPOPanel',{left:'auto', top:'auto'});"
 reRender="editPOForm" />

 <!-- This works, but I have to duplicate action, oncomplete, status, and reRender -->
 <a4j:jsFunction name="poPipeForm_loadNew"
 action="#{poPipeForm.loadNew}"
 oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('editPOPanel',{left:'auto', top:'auto'});return false;"
 status="commonstatus0"
 reRender="editPOForm" />
 <rich:hotKey key="alt+ctrl+p"
 handler="poPipeForm_loadNew();return false;"/>

 <!-- This is not working at all -->
 <rich:hotKey key="alt+ctrl+o"
 handler="Event.fire(#{rich:element('createPipePO')}, 'a4j:commandButton:onclick');return false;"/>