Hello, On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 14:27 -0400, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > It's just a tremendous amount of work to make components created in > java code work correctly. If you could do it with templates instead, > you'd reduce the time needed to get this working by at least a couple > orders of magnitude. we're currently also struggling with creating components in java code. Probably it would be good to collect resources regarding this topic in the wiki...
Cheers, Martin > > > On 9/8/06, Leyzerzon, Simeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reports themselves are static (around 100 of them), this page should just > > display a combo with the reports name in a particular report category > > (chosen previously via a javascript drop-down menu) and then depending on > > the report chosen, resolve its parameters into dynamically generated > > controls. When a user clicks the submit button, then I pass all of these > > populated values to the jasperreport's template for the display. > > > > Why is it not a good idea to create components in java code, could you > > elaborate? > > We are not using facelets, just jsp's. > > > > Thanks. > > Simeon > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 2:04 PM > > To: MyFaces Discussion > > Subject: Re: Run-time component generation > > > > How dynamic are these reports? And how many are there? > > > > What about creating page fragments for each one and including the one > > picked either with a jsp:include or a facelets ui:include? > > > > If you really want to manually create components, the way to go about it is > > to bind a panelGrour to your page, and then manually set up everything with > > that binding getter. > > You also MUST manually specific all required attributes (for example, > > id) as part of this creation process. > > > > However, I'd avoid creating components in java code if you can do so. > > If it's just a matter of dynamically creating columns, use t:columns. > > > > On 9/8/06, Leyzerzon, Simeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Mike. I'm creating the components within the backing bean. Here > > > is how: > > > > > > Jsp.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > <f:view> > > > <h:form id="selectorForm"> > > > <h:panelGrid footerClass="subtitle" headerClass="" > > > styleClass="" > > > columnClasses="" > > > > > > binding="#{selector.panelGrid}"> > > > > > > > > > > > > Backing bean~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > > > > public HtmlPanelGrid getPanelGrid() { > > > > > > grid = new HtmlPanelGrid(); > > > grid.setColumns(4); > > > grid.setBgcolor("red"); > > > > > > HtmlSelectOneMenu chooser = new HtmlSelectOneMenu(); > > > chooser.setId("reportsOfCategory"); > > > > > > chooser.setTitle("Please select a report to run"); > > > > > > chooser.getChildren().add(ReportsPerCategoryMapper.getOptionItems(this > > > .getCategory().getName())); > > > > > > grid.getChildren().add(chooser); > > > > > > return grid; > > > } > > > > > > > > > What I don't know is how to make the backing bean build the rest of the > > > components after chooser passes it the report selected. > > > > > > TIA. > > > Simeon > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:38 PM > > > To: MyFaces Discussion > > > Subject: Re: Run-time component generation > > > > > > It's unclear what part you need help with. > > > > > > Start by looking at this page: > > > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/SubmitPageOnValueChange > > > > > > > > > On 9/8/06, Leyzerzon, Simeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for some code samples to support the following use case: > > > > > > > > I have a page with a form on which there's a combo-box > > > > (h:selectOneMenu). > > > > The combo-box contains a list of available reports. Depending on > > > > the user choice in the combo-box, I'd like to redisplay the same > > > > page with the combo-box with a dynamically generated list of > > > > components representing the user controls corresponding to the > > > > chosen report's parameters list to be passed to the server. User > > > > then populates these controls with the parameter values and submits the > > > > form by clicking the submit button. > > > > > > > > The part that interests me most is: how to redisplay the same page > > > > with these newly populated controls after the selectOneMenu event > > > > passed to the server. > > > > > > > > I could provide more details if needed. > > > > > > > > Appreciate any help! > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Simeon Leyzerzon > > > > > > > > ==================================================================== > > > > == ======== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important > > > > electronic communications disclaimer: > > > > > > > > http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html > > > > ==================================================================== > > > > == > > > > ======== > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ====================================================================== > > > ======== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important > > > electronic communications disclaimer: > > > > > > http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html > > > ====================================================================== > > > ======== > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================================== > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > > communications disclaimer: > > > > http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html > > ============================================================================== > > > > > -- Martin Grotzke Bernstorffstr. 17, 22767 Hamburg Tel. +49 (0) 40.98239888 Mobil +49 (0) 170.9365656 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Online http://www.javakaffee.de/blog/
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