Re: (resolved) Forcing to update

[Jeff Bischoff <jb...@klkurz.com>]

Found a workaround for this issue (and a fairly obvious one at that!) 
The answer was passing value-binding expressions (pointing to labels) 
instead of the actual labels, when building the collection of 
NavigationMenuItems.

This is the only way that I could get a usage such as

<t:panelNavigation2 id="nav1" layout="list" activeItemClass="selected">
     <t:navigationMenuItems value="#{menu.panelNavigationItems}" />	
</t:panelNavigation2>

to reliably update its labels on each request. This deviates from the 
behaviour of similar collection-referencing tags, such as dataTable and 
f:selectItems, which grab the collection anew every time.

Cheers,

Jeff Bischoff
Kenneth L Kurz & Assoc, Inc.

Jeff Bischoff wrote:
> Problem:
> 
> Menu labels are not updated on t:panelNavigation2 when the action 
> returns null, and the same page is redisplayed. If we navigate to 
> another page and then navigate back, the labels are updated correctly. 
> How can we get t:panelNavigation2 to update itself without navigating to 
> a different page?
> 
> I thought perhaps binding it to a UIComponent might allow me to 
> programmatically force such an update, but I'm not sure what methods 
> might accomplish that.
> 
> Background:
> 
> We have recently added t:panelNavigation2 as a menu to our website. At 
> the end of the label for each menu item is a number representing the 
> number of records in that category. When a new number is input and the 
> load button is clicked, these values should change, but they do not. All 
> of the other components on the page (h:inputTexts, h:outputTexts, 
> t:inputCalendar, etc) do update their displayed values correctly. We are 
> only having a problem with t:panelNavigation2 in particular.
> 
> Jeff Bischoff
> Kenneth L Kurz & Associates, Inc.
> 
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