Two commandButtons, one works fine, the other doesn't work

[ya ji]

There are two commandButtons in form, one works fine, but the other doesn't work. What's the problem?

code of two buttons:
Doesn't work: <a4j:commandButton action="#{MyBean.createUG}" reRender="ug_panel" limitToList="true" value="Add" styleClass="searchBtn" id="btnAdd"/>

Even I change it to "h:commandButton", still doesn't work!

Works: <h:commandButton action="#{MyBean.addUtoO}" id="btnSubmit" image="/images/btnSubmit.gif"/>

[Zack Marrapese]

that will happen if the button isn't actually within a form...make sure there is a form tag around that button.

[ya ji]

Hi Zack,

They are in the form.
The action in the first button isn't invoked, the reRender works.

Ya

[Anu Sri]

Can you post your bean action methods and complete jsp

[ya ji]

Bean Code:
public void createUG(){
try {
AcctMgmt port = getAccountService();
UserGroup ug = new UserGroup();
ug.setName(usergroupname);

Organization o = new Organization();
o.setId(Long.parseLong(selOrg));

ug = port.createUserGroup(o, ug);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}

xhtml code:
<h:form id="user_form">

<div class="orgLabel">Organization<span class="asterix"> * </span></div>
<div class="orgField">
<h:selectOneMenu id="selOrg" onchange="submit()" valueChangeListener="#{MyBean.changeOrg}">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="Select..." itemValue="0"/>
<f:selectItems value="#{OrganizationBean.allOrgSelectItems}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</div>


<div class="formLeft">
Add New Group: <h:inputText value="#{MyBean.usergroupname}" id="ugname"/>
<h:commandButton action="#{My.createUG}" reRender="user_group" limitToList="true" value="Add" styleClass="searchBtn" id="btnAdd" type="submit"/>
</div>

<div class="formLeft">
<h:commandButton action="#{MyBean.addUserToOrg}" id="btnSubmit" image="/images/btnSubmit.gif"/>
</div>
</h:form>

[Anu Sri]

Hi,

Can you try keeping some debug messages in the action, to trace whether the method is getting invoked or not.

Also the Value attribute is missing for selectOneMenu.

in
<h:commandButton action="#{My.createUG}" reRender="user_group" limitToList="true" value="Add" styleClass="searchBtn" id="btnAdd" type="submit"/>

the bean name is My -- i think this would be a typing error when posting

[ya ji]

Yeah, it's typing wrong, it should be MyBean.

I have some debug information in code, I'm sure that it's not invoked at all.

How to make it be invoked?

[Laxman Guru]

Hi
are you using JSF 1.1 or JSF 1.2? Change the return type of the action method to String...It will work...

[ya ji]

Thanks a lot.

It works now, but I didn't change the return type:)

One more question:
Currently, it will refresh the whole page, but I just want to refresh the dataTable in the page.

The button reRender to the outputPanel of the dataTable.

How to make it to only refresh the dataTable?