Greetings. Please bear with me as I am relatively new to JSF and RichFaces. I have created a listShuttle Component with sourceValue, targetValue, sourceSelection, and targetSelection collections on the backing Bean. My page also has a "Save" commandButton which I had hoped would be used to persist the changes in the listShuttle.
The issue is that when the action method fires from the commandButton, i would assume the sourceSelection and targetSelection would be populated with the current state of the listShuttle. Right now they remain null. I'm sure it is something I am misunderstanding. Here is the jsp code.
<h:form id="manage_relationships_form" > <rich:panel id="full" style="width:70%"> <a4j:keepAlive beanName="manageRelationshipsBean"></a4j:keepAlive> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText value="Manage Relationships" /> </f:facet> <rich:listShuttle id="shuttle" sourceValue="#{manageRelationshipsBean.unassignedDeptFunctions}" targetValue="#{manageRelationshipsBean.assignedDeptFunctions}" sourceSelection="#{manageRelationshipsBean.sourceSelection}" targetSelection="#{manageRelationshipsBean.targetSelection}" var="deptFunc" listsHeight="300" sourceListWidth="200" targetListWidth="200" sourceCaptionLabel="Available Function Codes" targetCaptionLabel="Assigned Function codes" copyControlLabel="Add" converter="#{converter}" orderControlsVisible="false" fastMoveControlsVisible="false" fastOrderControlsVisible="false"> <rich:column width="18"> <h:outputText value="#{deptFunc.department}" id="deptDisplay" /> </rich:column> <rich:column width="18"> <h:outputText value="#{deptFunc.functionCode}" id="funcDisplay" /> </rich:column> </rich:listShuttle> <a4j:commandButton styleClass="defaultButton" action="#{manageRelationshipsBean.thisIsATest}" immediate="true" value="Save" type="button"/> </rich:panel> </h:form>