Question with selectOneMenu

[Jesse Felter]

I have a quick question, is there any easy way to append to the beginning of a select menu. Meaning I have a list that comes out of the bean of items, but at the top of the menu I want it to say ALL ITEMS. Is there an easy way to add the ALL ITEMS at the front of the list and have the value set to "all"

code:

<h:selectOneMenu rendered="#{userDataBean.user && !ReportDataBean.reportListEmpty}"
value="#{ReportDataBean.item}"
styleClass="optionValue">

<f:selectItems value="#{itemDataBean.itemList}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>

so this makes a menu list of all the items out of the bean, however I want to avoid adding in the the ALL ITEMS option in the bean because its used by other applications that do not need it.

Thanks for the help in advance

[Prakash Jebaraj]

Hi Jesse,

You can add f:selectItem before f:selectItems tag like the following

<h:selectOneMenu rendered="#{userDataBean.user && !ReportDataBean.reportListEmpty}" value="#{ReportDataBean.item}" styleClass="optionValue">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="ALL ITEMS " itemValue="all" id="allItems"/>
<f:selectItems value="#{itemDataBean.itemList}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>

Prakash