Question

I use a dataTable to display the some records. The user can add/change records using a dialog named actionsDialog. Before saving the record, a modal dialog, called reasonDialog, is displayed and the user has to enter some reasons for the current operation. In my logic I set the reason to null after the data is saved into database.

The problem appears when I repeat the operation. The reason contains the previous value. I have debugged the code and noticed that this happens because the reason is assigned the local value of the inputTextarea. How can I get rid of the local value? I am using PrimeFaces 3.0, Mojara 2.0.4, Tomcat 7.

My reason dialog facelet is:

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"  
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">  
    <p:dialog header="#{label.reason}" widgetVar="reasonDialog"
        showEffect="fade" hideEffect="explode" modal="true" dynamic="true">        
        <h:panelGrid columns="2">
            <p:inputTextarea rows="5" cols="40" autoResize="false"
                value="#{recordsBean.reason}" maxLength="1024" />
            <f:facet name="footer">
                <p:outputPanel layout="block">
                <p:commandButton value="ok" update="genericRecords msgs"
                    action="#{recordsBean.execute}"
                    oncomplete="reasonDialog.hide();actionsDialog.hide()" />
                </p:outputPanel>
            </f:facet>
        </h:panelGrid>
    </p:dialog>
</ui:composition>

The action dialog looks like this:

<p:dialog id="actionsDialog" widgetVar="actionsDialog" dynamic="true"
    resizable="false" height="600" showEffect="fade" hideEffect="fade" modal="true">
<ui:include src="/WEB-INF/flows/genericRecord.xhtml"/>
<f:facet name="footer">  
        <p:outputPanel layout="block">
    <p:commandButton value="save" onclick="reasonDialog.show()" />
    <p:commandButton value="cancel" immediate="true" 
                oncomplete="actionsDialog.hide()" />
    </p:outputPanel>
</f:facet>
</p:dialog>

Answer 1

Try to add ajax=”false” attribute in your p:commandButton; See sample

   <p:commandButton value="ok" update="genericRecords msgs"
                action="#{recordsBean.execute}" ajax="false"
                oncomplete="reasonDialog.hide();actionsDialog.hide()" />