reRender in an iframe

x490812 Oct 26, 2007 7:27 PM

I want to be able to reRender a rich:datatable in an iframe from outside the iframe. How do I do this?
Here is my code
page hoding navigation and iframe with scrollable data table

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<body>

<div id="header" style="text-align:center">
 <ui:include src="layout/header.xhtml" />
</div>


<div id="navigation" >
 <ui:include src="layout/navigation.xhtml" />
</div>


<div id="contentDiv">
CASES FOR: <USER>
<iframe scrolling="no" id="contentFrame" onload="resize_iframe()" src="caselist.seam" style="width:100%;border:none">
</iframe>
</div>

caselist.seam - holds the scrollable data table. is Src'd into the iframe above


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<h:form
 id="casetableform"
 style="width:802px;margin:auto;border:solid 1px">

 <rich:scrollableDataTable
 id="casetable"
 rows="50"
 columnClasses="col"
 value="#{caseList}"
 var="case"
 sortMode="single"
 width="800px"
 height="600px"
>
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Navigation.xhtml - is included in main page above. Holds the navigation menuitem that is supposed to update the scrollabledatatable in the iframe


<h:form>
 <rich:toolBar>

 <rich:dropDownMenu value="View">

 <rich:menuItem value="All Cases" submitMode="ajax" target="contentFrame" reRender="casetable" action="#{CASELISTFORM.doCaseListQry('ALL')}"></rich:menuItem>

What I am getting is the menuItem action being performed (#{CASELISTFORM.doCaseListQry('ALL')}), but the dtatable NOT getting rerendered. Why?? Is there a better way to do this? Do the richfaces components have the ability to reRender dom objects in an Iframe Source? reRendering has been giving me a lot of problems with this project