Re: panelTabbedPane and form submission

[David Miller]

I think I may have solved my problem. I used Javascript and a hidden
button to submit the entire tabbedPane whenever a link inside a panel
is clicked.

The javascript:

function submitPanel()
{
    var button = document.getElementById( 'hiddenButton' );
    button.click();
}

The panelTabbedPane:

<t:panelTabbedPane
        binding="#{controller.tabbedPane}"
        serverSideTabSwitch="true"
        width="600"
        styleClass="tabbedPanel">

        
        <t:panelTab id="tab_1" label="Panel 1" >        
                <h:panelGroup 
binding="#{controller.applicant.contact.contactPanel}"/>
        </t:panelTab>   
        
                <%-- Button is hidden --%>
        <t:commandButton style="visibility: hidden" forceId="true"
id="hiddenButton" onclick="submit();" />
        
        <t:tabChangeListener type="com.gofastcash.main.Controller"/>
        
        
</t:panelTabbedPane>

And the code that makes the link, taken from contactPanel:

HtmlCommandLink saveChanges = new HtmlCommandLink();
saveChanges.setAction(saveAction);                      
saveChanges.setActionListener(saveListener);            
saveChanges.setId( saveID );
saveChanges.setOnclick( "submitPanel();" );  // javascript form submission
saveChanges.setTitle( (String)bundle.get( "tip_save" ) );
saveChanges.setImmediate(false);
lowerRight.getChildren().add(saveChanges);      

I hope that this helps someone and most importantly I hope it's not
afu. If it is afu or if there's a better way of doing it please speak
up.