I'm not following everything you're saying, but if you make
commandLink immediate=true, then you need to make inputText
immediate=true if you want to have access to that data from your
commandLink's action.
On 3/13/08, daniel ccss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I´m using JSF Tomahawk and ajax, but something happens.
>
> I have a <t:inputText that is where the user enters the ID of a person and
> next to that input I have a <t:commanLink for search the info of the person
> after the id is typed. Also in that same form, i have some <h:selectOneMenu
> controls that uses ajax to fill one from other, for example if the value of
> the <h:selectOneMenu1 changes it changes the values of the <h:selectOneMenu2
> using Ajax:
>
> <a4j:support event="onchange" action="#{PatientBean.updateCountry}"
> reRender="cities" /> ....
>
> This is the problem, for some reason if I typed the id of the user and click
> on the <t:commandLink nothing happens, then I put an <h:messages to see what
> was going on and I recived a message that says that the cities variable was
> null so the action was never called....
>
> Then I select the values of the <h:selectOneMenu1 and then select the value
> <h:selectOneMenu2 and then I enter the ID int the input and click the
> <t:commanLink and the action of the backing bean was called sucesfully, but
> because the cities variable was not null...
>
> Then to try to resolve the problem I put an inmediate="true" attribute in
> the <t:commanLink. Then I enter ther person ID and then I click
> <t:commanLink and it calls the method of the backing bean, but the ID comes
> empty...
>
> What is going on?? Why I have to fill the <h:selectOneMenus first to then
> call the action, I not use a requiered attribute for them?? Why the
> inmediate="true" works but the <t:inputText is null?? All works if I first
> fill the <h:selectOneMenu that uses ajax and are in an ajax:region and then
> call the action method, but don´t need that, I can first search the id if I
> want and then fill the <h:selectOneMenus.
>
> Do anyone knows why this happen and which is the solution? Thanks!!
>
> Regards,
>
