Question

My button code is:

<h:commandButton value="Clean" action="#{facesBean.cleanFilter()}" >
    <f:ajax execute="@form" render="result id name"/>
</h:commandButton> 

I can see it calls my action and my properties are empty on the backbean, but my form inputs doesn’t get cleaned. It should clean two inputs and one table. The table gets cleaned, but my input doesn’t.

I’ve searched for some solutions with no luck.

Is there something wrong?

My popup has it’s own file, popup.xhtml, and I use it through ui:include.
Here is my code for the popup:

<h:form id="userForm">
    <rich:popupPanel id="popup-user" modal="true" headerClass="popup-header" styleClass="popup" domElementAttachment="form" keepVisualState="true" width="620" autosized="true" top="50">
        <f:facet name="header" >
            <h:outputText value="Search User" />
        </f:facet>
        <f:facet name="controls">
            <h:commandLink>
                <h:graphicImage url="/images/icon-close.png" alt="Close" styleClass="icone-close"/>
                <rich:componentControl target="popup-user" operation="hide" />
            </h:commandLink>
        </f:facet>

        <fieldset>
            <legend class="section">Search User Filter</legend>
            <h:panelGrid styleClass="form" columns="1" cellspacing="0" columnClasses="item">
                <h:panelGroup>
                    <h:outputLabel styleClass="label-form" value="ID" for="id" />
                    <br />
                    <h:inputText id="id" value="#{facesBean.filter.id}" styleClass="textfield" maxlength="8"/>
                </h:panelGroup>
                <h:panelGroup>
                    <h:outputLabel styleClass="label-form" value="Name" for="name" />
                    <br />
                    <h:inputText id="name" value="#{facesBean.filter.name}" styleClass="textfield" />
                </h:panelGroup>
            </h:panelGrid>
        </fieldset>

        <div id="buttons">
            <h:commandButton value="Search" action="#{facesBean.search()}">
                <f:ajax execute="@form" render="result-users" />
            </h:commandButton>
            <h:commandButton value="Clean" action="#{facesBean.clean()}" >
                <f:ajax execute="@form" render="id name result-user"/>
            </h:commandButton> 
        </div>      

        <h:panelGroup id="result-user">
                <rich:dataScroller for="userTable" styleClass="pagination" maxPages="5" boundaryControls="hide" renderIfSinglePage="false" fastControls="hide" stepControls="auto" execute="@form" render="userTable" />
                <rich:dataTable id="userTable" value="#{facesBean.list}" var="user" style="width:600px;" rows="10">
                    <f:facet name="header">
                        <rich:columnGroup>
                            <rich:column styleClass="left" style="width: 5%">
                                <h:outputText value="Action" />
                            </rich:column>
                            <rich:column styleClass="left" style="width: 10%">
                                <h:outputText value="ID" />
                            </rich:column>
                            <rich:column styleClass="left" style="width: 25%">
                                <h:outputText value="Name" />
                            </rich:column>
                            <rich:column styleClass="left" style="width: 25%">
                                <h:outputText value="E-mail" />
                            </rich:column>
                        </rich:columnGroup>
                    </f:facet>

                    <rich:columnGroup>
                        <rich:column>
                            <h:commandButton image="/images/icon-select.png" alt="Select" actionListener="#{mainBean.selectUser(user)}" styleClass="icon-select">
                                <f:ajax execute="@form" render=":form:#{field}" />
                                <rich:componentControl target="popup-user" operation="hide" />
                            </h:commandButton>
                        </rich:column>
                        <rich:column>
                            <h:outputText value="#{user.id}" />
                        </rich:column>
                        <rich:column>
                            <h:outputText value="#{user.name}" />
                        </rich:column>
                        <rich:column>
                            <h:outputText value="#{user.email}" />
                        </rich:column>
                    </rich:columnGroup>
                </rich:dataTable>
            </h:panelGroup>
        </h:panelGroup>
    </rich:popupPanel>
</h:form>

Answer 1

After trying so many things, I tried to put my inputs betwenn a and changed my buttoon for and it worked.

It looks like this:

    <a4j:outputPanel id="search-filter">
     <fieldset>
        <legend class="section">Search User Filter</legend>
        <h:panelGrid styleClass="form" columns="1" cellspacing="0" columnClasses="item">
            <h:panelGroup>
                <h:outputLabel styleClass="label-form" value="ID" for="id" />
                <br />
                <h:inputText id="id" value="#{facesBean.filter.id}" styleClass="textfield" maxlength="8"/>
            </h:panelGroup>
            <h:panelGroup>
                <h:outputLabel styleClass="label-form" value="Name" for="name" />
                <br />
                <h:inputText id="name" value="#{facesBean.filter.name}" styleClass="textfield" />
            </h:panelGroup>
        </h:panelGrid>
    </fieldset>
    </a4j:outputPanel>
    <div id="buttons">
        <h:commandButton value="Search" action="#{facesBean.search()}">
            <f:ajax execute="@form" render="result-users" />
        </h:commandButton>
        <a4j:commandButton value="Clean" action="#{facesBean.clean()}" >
            <f:ajax execute="@form" render="search-filter result-user"/>
        </a4j:commandButton> 
    </div>