Can I trigger a suggestionBox wtihout filter criteria?

jjmiller Aug 23, 2011 5:43 PM

I’m currently using a rich suggestionBox component, and it’s working correctly. However, I’m wondering if there is a way to trigger the suggestionBox to show up with no input, from a button-click? If the user doesn’t know where to start, I’d like to provide a button that would bring you all of the suggestions without having to type in any text to use as a filter, if that makes sense.

I have my suggestionBox tied to a database, so it will find suggestions where the field is “ like ‘%’ ”, so the back end would work if you entered nothing, I’m just not sure how to trigger the suggestionBox to pop up.

I'm using RichFaces version 3.3.3.

Thanks.

1. Re: Can I trigger a suggestionBox wtihout filter criteria?

jjmiller Aug 23, 2011 6:23 PM (in response to jjmiller)

I've found a solution for this. For any who come across this post, here's how I got this working:

<a4j:commandLink value="..." onclick="#{rich:component('XXXX')}.callSuggestion(true);" />

Where XXXX is the ID of your suggestionBox.
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