I want to clarify, it is ok if it is on the same page. Its when I go to a different page, it forgets its state. How can I pass the state across?

I see a selectedChild attribute on it, would I be able to use this?

See this thread, you only hope right now is to use an iframe or frames.

I see a selectedChild attribute on it, would I be able to use this?

Yes, I would try binding selectedChild to a bean in conversation scope. Sounds just like selectedTab (for a TabPanel), which works like a charm!

You may also need to add something like this to pages.xml if you are doing redirects:

<param name="selectedTab" value="#{commonController.selectedTab}" />

It sounds like the right idea, thanks - but do you have an example of doing it using the tabs?

I'm very interested to see a similar example to copy.

Geez, do you want a donut with that ;-)

<rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax" selectedTab="#{commonController.selectedTab}">

@Name("commonController")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class CommonController extends EntityController
{
        protected String selectedTab;

	public String getSelectedTab()
	{
		return selectedTab;
	}

	public void setSelectedTab(String selectedTab)
	{
		this.selectedTab = selectedTab;
	}
	
}

PS Doesn't need to extend EntityController, nothing special here, just a getter and setter and you're good to go!

FYI, in case you have a long running conversation you will propagate it to /MemberActivityList.xhtml.

Hi Ingo,

Yes please give me a donut, I've spend over a day full time trying many combinations and what you suggested and it didn't work for me.

My next step will be to try what you suggested for the tab panel to make sure that I can do it AT LEAST with the tab panel. Then I will go back to this rich:panelMenu. I'm about to go insane.

Thanks, Philip

Hi Philip, have you tried setting breakpoints on the getter and setter in your backing bean? Are these methods being called?

Hi, It calls get method a lot but never sets it to a different value. sad

(please help... begs)

Post your code, will work for donuts :-)

Try adding this to Staff.page.xml:

<param name="selectedChild" value="#{panelMenu.selectedChild}" />

i tried now, not working.

Ha ha .... good one!

Try setting a breakpoint on panelMenu.selectedChild, is it even being called?

Hi,

I paid for a solution!

http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/Java-J-EE/Solve-Java-Richfaces-SEAM-problem.html

Since I paid - its not fair for me to share it, as I'd be putting the author out of business.

But the developers of Richfaces should know that its not a simple solution, they should have made this component simple to work across different pages.

Thanks, Philip

One possible solution

philip andrew wrote on Jan 01, 2009 13:16:
Hi Max, Yes good but I guess it doesn't work down to multiple nested levels?

Nesting levels also worked:

<rich:panelMenu style="width:200px" mode="client" 
		selectedChild="#{menuState.selectedMenuItem}"
        iconExpandedGroup="disc" 
        iconCollapsedGroup="disc" 
        iconExpandedTopGroup="chevronUp" 
        iconGroupTopPosition="right" 
        iconCollapsedTopGroup="chevronDown" 
        iconCollapsedTopPosition="right" >
		<rich:panelMenuGroup label="Group 1" id="group1" value="#{menuState.menu['group1']}">
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1" id="group1_item1" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 2" id="group1_item2" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 3" id="group1_item3" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			<rich:panelMenuGroup label="Group 1.1" value="#{menuState.menu['group1_1']}"> 
				<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1" id="group1_1_item1" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
				<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 2" id="group1_1_item2" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			</rich:panelMenuGroup>
		</rich:panelMenuGroup>
		<rich:panelMenuGroup label="Group 2" id="group2" value="#{menuState.menu['group2']}" >
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 1" id="group2_item1" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 2" id="group2_item2" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
			<rich:panelMenuItem label="Item 3" id="group2_item3" 
								actionListener="#{menuBean.select}"
								action="/select.xhtml"
								mode="server"/>
		</rich:panelMenuGroup>
	</rich:panelMenu>

Max,

Thanks for the solution. Unfortunately, I having trouble with Safari (3.2.1). For the life of me, I can't get the actionListener on a menu item to fire with Safari (3.2.1). Clicking does nothing. Are you aware of any javascript or related problems with this browser? Firefox and Opera work perfectly - saving state, firing events, etc.

Thanks again.

It turns out that this problem (with Safari) was addressed in the latest RichFaces release (3.3.0). The previous release 3.2.2 wasn't firing the actionListener events in the latest version of Safari (which confusingly is version 3.2.1).

I dropped in the new jars and voila! Everything works. Thanks again Max!