On 6/7/06, Greg Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Craig, > I was gonig to point you at the website page about Dialog, but I can see now > it's not particularly helpful :-). There's only one sentence (the very last > one) that contains the key bits. Basically, the only current way to enter a > dialog is to have some action on a non-dialog page return a logical outcome > string of the form "dialog:xxxxx", where "xxxxx" is the name of the Dialog > you want to start. This causes Dialog's version of NavigationHandler to > kick in, and transfers control the the starting state. I saw the documentation, but didn't see where it applies to what I am trying to do. So are you saying there is no way to make my Login.jsp page behave as a dialog? Give what you say here I don't see one, but somebody else might...
So, you want to start a dialog as the very first thing that the user sees? Right now, the only way to do that is something of a hack, but this should work. * Make the welcome page of your app be a JSF page that has a "Welcome to my app ..." type banner, with a Command Link component on it that has action="dialog:Log in" on it. * Use a bit of JavaScript to programmatically submit the page, which will trigger initiating the dialog to display the login page as part of it. Having a programmatic server side way to do this would definitely be useful, as would a way to trigger a dialog directly for the app's welcome page. But something along the lines above should get you started for now. Thanks for the info.
-- Greg
Craig
