Hi everyone,

today I have found one interesting issue I cannot cope with.
I used this source, from rich demo page:

<rich:dataTable value="#{dictionaryEditor.dictionaryEntries}" var="cap" rows="20" reRender="ds" id="simpletable">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <rich:columnGroup>
 <rich:column colspan="2" >
 <h:outputText value="Filtering Example"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column breakBefore="true">
 <h:outputText value="State Name"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column>
 <h:outputText value="State Capital"/>
 </rich:column>
 </rich:columnGroup>
 </f:facet>
 <rich:column filterBy="#{cap.paramId}" filterEvent="onkeyup">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value=" " title="Hack due to bug. Shuold be remoevd till release"></h:outputText>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{cap.paramId}"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column filterBy="#{cap.paramValue}" filterEvent="onkeyup">
 <h:outputText value="#{cap.paramValue}"/>
 </rich:column>
 <f:facet name="footer">
 <rich:datascroller id="ds" renderIfSinglePage="false"></rich:datascroller>
 </f:facet>
 </rich:dataTable>

and it work pretty well.

Unfortunately, my real table should be within a page with many of a4j:commandButtons and a4j:support. In such a case I have always been using:

<a4j:outputPanel ajaxRendered="true">
 <a4j:commandButton ... />
 <h:selectOneMenu ....>
 <a4j:support ..... />
 </h:selectOneMenu .....>
</a4j:outputPanel>

and didn't care about reRender attributes. So, if I surround my whole page with this outputPanel suddenly rich:dataTable stops working. Because of 'onkeyup' event I can put only one letter into column text input field (filter) and then ajax request is sent. When answer becomes my table rerenders, but i lose focus on this input. In that way, I can only filter by first sign or click somewhere into input to focus it after every letter.

What's most interesting when I substituted a4j:outputPanel with rich:panel with id and specifiy this id in every a4j component reRender attribute - the same situation happens (loses focus). Looks like there are double ajax request or sth?

I tried with <a4j:queue /> but it didn't seem to work. Do you have any ideas how to use default rich:dataTable filtering mechanizm when its surrounded by a4j:outputPanel ?

Thanks in advance,
Matthew