you shouldnt rerender the entire form, just some div that surrounds the area you are changing
i have something similar going, and there i have a div that is around the label+editor, so i repaint that diff when i need to swap it out with a different editor... -igor On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jay Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timo, > > Thanks for your response. Here's a practical example of how this component > will be used. > > Let's say I have an employee table out in some database that has firstName, > lastName and department fields. I need to give HR a web page that allows > them to search for employees based on firstName, lastName and/or department. > Now I could easily design a page that has a search form with 3 TextField's > and a submit button to simply get the job done. But what if I have 30 or 40 > tables and all of those tables require search pages....I don't want to > recreate the wheel each time if I can get away with it. So I design a > component (thanks to wicket) that accepts general search parameters and > handles the grunt work. Plus, I can make the search panel more powerful by > allowing the user to select how they want to search (using =, >, <, LIKE, IN > etc...). > > Getting back to the employees example, I want the search form to look > something like this: > > First Name: <SearchOperatorDropDown: =, LIKE, IN LIST> [Textfield to hold > search criteria entered by user] > Last Name: <SearchOperatorDropDown: =, LIKE, IN LIST> [Textfield to hold > search criteria entered by user] > Department: <SearchOperatorDropDown: =, LIKE, IN LIST> [Textfield to hold > search criteria entered by user] > [SearchButton] > > Here is where I am stuck. If the user chooses to search by department using > the "in list" operator, I want to be able to replace, using AJAX, the > TextField component with a MultipleListChoice component so they can select 1 > or more departments. I don't really need the form to be submitted every time > the search operator is changed but when I add the form to > AjaxRequestTarget.addComponent() the form is re-rendered and my changes are > lost. > > Am I making any sense? > > Thanks, > Jay > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Timo Rantalaiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jay Hogan wrote: > > > Here's what I'm trying to do. I'm designing a SearchPanel component that > > > accepts a List<SearchField> and renders these items on a search form. > > The > > > SearchField object has properties for search field name, search operator > > (an > > > enum), search value and a list of allowed search operators. I am > > following > > > the dynamic form > > > elements<http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/forms-with-dynamic-elements.html > > >example > > > > Wow, that's a complicated search! I hope that you have a lot > > of data behind it. > > > > > This is where I run into problems. If I add the form component to the > > > AjaxRequestTarget provided by AjaxEditableChoiceLabel.onSubmit, any > > dirty > > > form components lose their values. I've tried to add a call to > > > > Hmm, so are you submitting the entire form when any > > AjaxEditableChoiceLabel is edited? Have you checked that it > > does submit the form? If not you might be better off by > > rolling your own component with AjaxFormSubmittingBehavior. > > > > > form.processin the > > > AjaxEditableChoiceLabel.onSubmit method in attempt to force the form to > > > update it's model, but that doesn't work. I also tried just adding the > > > ListItem to the AjaxRequestTarget but the component is not re-rendered > > by > > > the target. > > > > Have you tried adding a feedback panel to see if there are > > validation errors? > > > > I didn't understand very well what was the expected behavior > > of each input element and the form (a practical example would > > be handy). > > > > Best wishes, > > Timo > > > > -- > > Timo Rantalaiho > > Reaktor Innovations Oy <URL: http://www.ri.fi/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > ============================================ > Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
