I have two forms: one to define some filter settings (ajax) and with sumbit buttons which reloads the page by action="null" and one form with a single command button which executes the ajax listener "#{bean.activate}":
<h:form id="settingsForm">
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{bean.boolean1}" id="bool1">
<f:ajax event="click" render="@all" execute="bool1"/>
</h:selectBooleanCheckbox>
<ui:repeat var="step" value="#{bean.availableSteps}">
<h:commandLink action="#{bean.navigate(step)}">
<h:outputText value="#{step.name}" />
</h:commandLink>
</ui:repeat>
</h:form>
<h:form id="activateForm">
<h:commandButton value="set activate bool and rerender" >
<f:ajax event="click" execute="@form" render="@all" listener="#{bean.activate}"/>
</h:commandButton>
</h:form>
The problem is following:
when I change the checkbox (boolean in backing bean) and click the submit button in the same form, only the changes (in the backing bean) are persisted which were set in the same form.
When I execute the second form (bean.activate), it rerenders fine (shows some more information), but when I THEN submit the first form, the changes of the second form are lost (but they are working on the same bean). I want that it remembers also the variables set in the second form...
It seems that the values set by the other form are not persisted, because when i perform a form submit, all the "information" stored by ajax of the second form is lost.
e.g.
boolean boolean1 = false; //set by form 1
boolean show = false; //set by form 2 (ajax)
public void activate(Ajaxbehaviour...){ show = true; }
Should there be by default only ONE form at all? it seems that two forms (one big and one just so set a variable by ajax) are too much...