Can't reRender richfaces datatable from modal panel

[Q Rahman]

I am trying to automatically reRender a datatable when user click on Ok button on a modal panel. For whatever reason it isn't refreshing. What am I doing wrong here? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    

<h:form>
	<rich:dataTable onRowMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='#F1F1F1'"
				onRowMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='#{a4jSkin.tableBackgroundColor}'"
				id="promoList" columnClasses="column" value="#{Promotions.promotionList}" 
				var="promoDetail" rows="20" selectionMode="single">

				
				<rich:column sortable="true" sortBy="#{promoDetail.promotion.promoName}">
					<f:facet name="header">Promotion Name</f:facet>
					<h:commandLink action="#{AddPromotion.editPromotionAction}" actionListener="#{AddPromotion.gotoPromotionTab}" value="#{promoDetail.promotion.promoName}">
                       				<a4j:actionparam name="promotionId" value="#{promoDetail.promotion.id}" assignTo="#{AddPromotion.promotionId}"></a4j:actionparam>
                    		</h:commandLink>
				</rich:column>
				
				<rich:column sortable="true" sortBy="#{promoDetail.promotion.suggestedPrice}">
					<f:facet name="header">Price</f:facet>
					<h:outputText value="#{promoDetail.promotion.suggestedPrice}" />
				</rich:column>
		</rich:dataTable>
</h:form>


 <rich:modalPanel id="deleteStatusPanel" width="350" height="150">
           <f:facet name="header">
            	<h:outputText value="Delete Promotion" />
            </f:facet>
            <h:panelGroup layout="block" styleClass="scrolls">
            <h:form>
	            <center>
	                <rich:spacer height="15" />
	                <h:panelGrid columns="1">
	                <h:outputText style="white-space:normal" value="#{Promotions.deletePromoStatus}" />
	                </h:panelGrid>
	                <rich:spacer height="30" />
	                <a4j:commandButton value="OK" onclick="Richfaces.hideModalPanel('deleteStatusPanel');" reRender="promoList"/>
	            </center>
             </h:form>
             </h:panelGroup>
 </rich:modalPanel>

[Tim Holloway]

I'm not surprised. Despite being on the same view definition, I'd expect the modal panel to pretty much behave like an independent view.

Since the modal panel blocks the background view (that is, after the definition of a modal dialog), you should expect that the background view is going to remain static.

The solution to that is probably going to be that you trigger the background reRender events as part of the ModalPanel's dismissal operation. Roughly speaking, that means an "onclose rerender" operation.

[Q Rahman]

Would you have any code example how to accomplish what you suggested? I tried the following, but am pretty sure this is not what you suggested.

<a4j:support event="oncomplete" reRender="promoList"/>

<rich:modalPanel id="publishPromoPanel" width="350" height="150">
        	<f:facet name="header">
            	<h:outputText value="Publish Promotion" />
            </f:facet>
            <h:panelGroup layout="block" styleClass="scrolls">
            <h:form>
	            <center>
	                <rich:spacer height="20" />
	                <h:panelGrid columns="1">
	                <h:outputText style="white-space:normal" value="#{Promotions.publishPromoStatus}" />
	                </h:panelGrid>
	                    <rich:spacer height="30" />
	                    <h:panelGrid columns="1">
	                         <a4j:commandButton value="OK" 
	                                            onclick="Richfaces.hideModalPanel('publishPromoPanel');">
		                                       <a4j:support event="oncomplete" reRender="promoList"/>
		                     </a4j:commandButton>                   
	                    </h:panelGrid>
	             </center>
             </h:form>
             </h:panelGroup>
        </rich:modalPanel>

[Jason Irwin]

The RichFaces documentation states that the modalPanel has an "onhide" event.
http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossrichfaces/freezone/docs/devguide/en/html/rich_modalPanel.html

You should hook that.

<rich:modalPanel id="deleteStatusPanel" width="350" height="150"> 
    ...
   <a4j:support event="onhide" reRender="promoList"/>  
</rich:modalPanel>

I just tested with a modalPanel an alert statement, seems to work.

[Q Rahman]

Interestingly it doesn't work for me!

[Annu Vinayak]

Well.. I had faced the same problem too. Then I tried rerendering the form in which the datatable was contained and it worked. You can try that too.

[Ali Irawan]

Check this out

http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_3_3_X/en/devguide/html/rich_modalPanel.html

find this text: 6.10.1.3. Details of Usage