how to skip validation phase only

[scientia india]

Hi

My functionality is user creation. The fields are user name and role.
I have an input text box to enter role name and a command button to search roles using the role name. My form has another input text box to enter user name and it is a required field while creating user. But whenever I am trying to search role I am forced to enter username as it is a required field.

My code is

   
<h:form >
<center>
		
			<rich:panel style="width:600px;" rendered="#{appUserBean.createUserPanel}">
				<f:facet name="header">
					<h:outputText value="#{msg.corp_createUser}" styleClass="info"/>
				</f:facet>
				
				
		   		<h:panelGrid  columns="3">
				<h:outputLabel for="name" value="#{msg.corp_name}" />
				<h:inputText id="name" value="#{appUserBean.user.actName}" 
				 validatorMessage="#{msg.validation_name_length}"  required="true" binding="#{appUserBean.inputName}" > 
					<f:validateLength maximum="45"/>
				</h:inputText> 
				<h:message for="name"  styleClass="error"></h:message>
				
                               <a4j:form>
				<a4j:outputPanel  ajaxRendered="true" >
				
					<h:panelGrid columns="3" id="lovPanel" rendered="#{appUserBean.allowLovPanel}">
				 	<h:outputLabel for="role" value="#{msg.corp_org}" />
				 	
					<h:inputText id="role" value="#{appUserBean.role.name}"> 
				
					</h:inputText>
					
					<a4j:commandButton  immediate="false" title="Search" value="#{msg.button_search}"
					image="/images/Search-32.png"  action="#{lovHandlerBean.processLov}" >
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{lovHandlerBean.backingBean}" value="appUserBean" />
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{lovHandlerBean.backingBeanAttribute}" value="role" />
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{lovHandlerBean.lovVisible}" value="true" />
						
					</a4j:commandButton>
					
					<jsp:include flush="true" page="/jsf/orgLov.jsp"/>
					
				</h:panelGrid>
					
				
				</a4j:outputPanel>
				</a4j:form>
				<h:panelGrid  columns="3">
				<h:commandButton  value="#{msg.button_create}" action="#{appUserBean.createUser}">
				</h:commandButton>
				<h:commandButton  value="#{msg.button_cancel}" >
				</h:commandButton>
				<h:commandButton  value="#{msg.button_reset}" >
				</h:commandButton>
			</h:panelGrid>
		
			</rich:panel>
				<jsp:include flush="true" page="/jsf/viewUserDetails.jsp"/>
		</center>
		
		
	</h:form>

 

I want to skip the required validation. Whenever I am using immediate=”true” for the search button. The user role search criterion that is role name is not able to apply.

Please help me

Thank in Advance
Athira

[Tim Holloway]

Validation is part of the basic contract of JSF. It doesn't ever want you to be capable of setting the backing bean to a corrupt state (mixed updates).

However, I do this stuff all the time using the "rendered" attribute and a pair of controls. I only render the inputText control when input is required. Otherwise I display it by rendering an outputText control (assuming I want it displayed).