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Creating a table with a checkbox column dynamically in JSF

 
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Dear Sirs and Madams,
I am very new to JSF and would appreciate any help on the current issue am having. I have data being displayed on a browser via a JSF table, and the table is bound to a userVOArray attribute on the managed bean. All works well and I have a able of users displayed (first name, last name, user type etc). As the array is populated by data pulled from a database, its size changes depending on users being added or deleted. I wish to add a column of checboxes to the table allowing me to delete a user whose corresponding checkbox has been checked. How would I go about this please?

Thanking you profusely in advance,
Nick
 
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JSF is based on the Model/View/Controller architecture. So the view (datatable) can only display what's in the model.

Your problem is that the original rows of the datatable don't possess a "delete me" attribute.

You get around this by building a model that does. In other works, instead of binding the datamodel directly to the view, construct a façade class that includes the original attributes of a datamodel row plus a boolean item that indicates deletion and build your view model using instances of this class. You can then reference this view model when looking for items to delete.
 
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You can find here two examples: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/06/using-datatables.html#SelectMultipleRows
 
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Thanking you both for your prompt responses, I will try your suggestions and get back to you with any further queries.

Thanks again,
Nick
 
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Hello again, am pleased to say the suggestions made came in extremely useful and I have sorted out the dynamic checkbox issue, thanks again! However I now have a similar issue: I would like to have a new column next to the checkbox column, also dynamic with a button so that when that button is clicked on, that row is selected to be edited (However if there is a better way of fulfilling such a use case please let me know). Am using a Table as opposed to a datatable from the palette in netbeans, not sure if that makes a difference but thought I would add the info.

Thanking you profusely in advance for any input,
Nick
 
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Make use of the rendered attribute.



Or something simliar that.
 
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Google for "JSF for Nonbelievers" by Rick Hightower - it's a 4-part series of articles in the IBM Developerworks collection. He presents an excellent illustration of this kind of thing.
 
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