Question

So when you create a dialog with primefaces it disables all of the page in the background. Is there a good way to do that without the dialog box?

Basically I want to disable the whole page during a specific ajax request.

Answer 1

Yup its called BlockUI ,

BlockUI

<p:panel id="pnl" header="My Panel">
    //content
    <p:commandButton id="saveBtn" value="Save" />
</p:panel>
<p:blockUI block="pnl" trigger="saveBtn" />

also , take a look at the user guide at the BlockUI section…