Question

Active Index is not getting updated automatically. ReaD in a few posts that by placing the tabView on a form it works. Or by including <p:ajax event="tabChange"/> in the tabview it works. But nothing seems to work

xhtml

Sample 1 : automatic updates

    <p:tabView id="categoryTabView" var="promoArticle" value="#{promotionDetailBean.artDTOs}"  activeIndex="#{promotionDetailBean.activeTabIndex}">
            <p:tab id="categoriesTab" title="#{promoArticle.categoryName}">
                <p:dataTable id="promotionDetail_dataTable" var="articlePromo" value="#{promoArticle.artVO}" selection="#{promotionDetailBean.selectedArt}" rowIndexVar="rowIndex">
                    <p:column id="select" selectionMode="multiple" />

                    <p:column id="barCode">
                        <h:inputText id="barCodeInputTxt" value="#{articlePromo.barCode}"
                        styleClass="inputTextStyle" onchange="onSuggestedValueChange('categoryTabView',#{promotionDetailBean.activeTabIndex}, 'promotionDetail_dataTable',#{rowIndex},'originalCostInputTxt')" />
                    </p:column>
                </p:dataTable>
            </p:tab>
        </p:tabView>

Sample 2: Updating on tabChange event

  <h:form id="form">
    <p:growl id="growlm" showDetail="true" />  

            <p:tabView id="categoryTabView" var="promoArticle" value="#{promotionDetailBean.artDTOs}"  >
               <p:ajax event="tabChange" listener="#{promotionDetailBean.tabChanged}"  update=":growlm" />
                    <p:tab id="categoriesTab" title="#{promoArticle.categoryName}">
                        <p:dataTable id="promotionDetail_dataTable" var="articlePromo" value="#{promoArticle.artVO}" selection="#{promotionDetailBean.selectedArt}" rowIndexVar="rowIndex">
                            <p:column id="select" selectionMode="multiple" />

                            <p:column id="barCode">
                                <h:inputText id="barCodeInputTxt" value="#{articlePromo.barCode}"
                                styleClass="inputTextStyle" onchange="onSuggestedValueChange('categoryTabView',#{promotionDetailBean.activeTabIndex}, 'promotionDetail_dataTable',#{rowIndex},'originalCostInputTxt')" />
                            </p:column>
                        </p:dataTable>
                    </p:tab>
                </p:tabView>

I need to identify the cell on “onChange ” event. But the activeIndex is always 0, the initialized value. The event doesn’t get call.

bean

private Integer activeTabIndex = 0;
public Integer getActiveTabIndex() {
   return activeTabIndex;
}
public void setActiveTabIndex(Integer activeTabIndex) {
    this.activeTabIndex = activeTabIndex;
}

bean

public void tabChanged(TabChangeEvent event){
        TabView tv = (TabView) event.getComponent(); 
        this.activeTabIndex = tv.getActiveIndex();
    }

But the event is not getting trigerred. Nor getting updated automatically.

What could be the probable issues ?

Thanks,
Shikha

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

XHTML:

<p:tabView id="categoryTabView" var="promoArticle"
        value="#{promotionDetailManagedBean.articuloPromocionDTOs}" dynamic="true">
    <p:ajax event="tabChange" listener="#{promotionDetailManagedBean.onTabChange}" />
    <p:tab> ... </p:tab>
</p:tabView>

Bean:

public final void onTabChange(final TabChangeEvent event) {
    TabView tv = (TabView) event.getComponent();
    this.activeTabIndex = tv.getActiveIndex();
}