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Matt Kohanek

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I have the following page, that has a column across the top for navigation, a column on the left side for a rich:tree and the rest is a content pane. I need the content pane to change depending on what is clicked on in the rich:tree from the tree on the left side.

Any ideas on the best way to do this, because I cant just make pages, it has to be done dynamically because there will be different nodes in the tree all the time. Here is the page, there is a ui:define tag called "content" that is blank, and that is what I need to populate with content when someone clicks on the rich:Tree nodes (its at the very bottom):

<ui:define name="banner">
        <h:form>
            <h:graphicImage value="/images/NILogo.jpg" width="800" height="50" />
        </h:form>
    </ui:define>

<table>
    <tr>
        
        <td>
        <ui:define name="top_menu">
        <h:form>
            <h:outputLink value="/NI/pages/first.jsf">MDN PROJECT EXPLORER</h:outputLink><h:outputText value=" | " />
            <h:outputText value=" | " /><h:outputText value=" | " /><h:outputText value=" | " />
            <h:panelGroup>
            <h:outputLink value="/NI/top_menu/charts.jsf" >CHARTS</h:outputLink><h:outputText value=" | " />
            <h:outputLink value="/NI/top_menu/map.jsf" >MY MAP</h:outputLink><h:outputText value=" | " />
            </h:panelGroup>
            <hr/>
         </h:form>
         </ui:define>
         </td>

</tr>
     </table>

</ui:define>
       </td>

</tr>
     </table>

</ui:composition>

</html>

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Matt Kohanek

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I mean Im sure within each rich:tree tag Ill need to use the onclick attribute or something like that, but aside from that Im unsure what to do with it

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Matt:

I do not know anything about RichFaces so please pardon my ignorance but from your use case, I think PartialTriggers is what you are looking for.

I use Apache Trinidad components which has built-in AJAX support and it provides two attributes: autoSubmit and partialTriggers to accomplish repainting a component based on the response received.

I am certain a4j has attributes/tags that will meet your requirements.

Best,
Anil.

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