Xpages: Dynamic View Panel - Sorting - xpages

Question

In my dynamic view panel, I need to have sortable columns. Problem is when sorting a column it resubmits the XPage and whole content is refreshed. Is there a way to achieve sorting only on the dynamic view panel without submitting whole page? Also, I want to hide this control if selected view is empty.
Here is my code:
<xp:panel id="searchPanel">
<xp:table styleClass="table table-condensed" style="width:auto">
<xp:tr>
<xp:td style="border-top:0px" styleClass="text-nowrap" id="searchColumn">
<xp:inputText id="inputText1" value="#{viewScope.searchterm}" styleClass="form-control"></xp:inputText>
<xp:link escape="true" text="" id="searchLink">
<i class="fa fa-search" style="margin-left:5px"></i>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" refreshMode="partial" immediate="false" submit="true" refreshId="ddPanel">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:var pager:com.ibm.xsp.component.xp.XspPager = getComponent("pager");
pager.gotoFirst();}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
<xp:link escape="true" text="" id="clearSearchLink">
<i class="fa fa-times" style="margin-left:5px"></i>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="ddPanel" onComplete="showHideTableToggle()">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:viewScope.remove("searchterm");}]]></xp:this.action>
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[dojo.byId(getID("inputText1")).value=""]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
</xp:td>
<xp:td style="border-top:0px;padding-left:20px">
<xp:link escape="true" id="addButton" onclick="return false;" styleClass="btn btn-primary" style="color:rgb(255,255,255)" text="Add">
<i class="fa fa-plus" style="margin-right:5px"></i>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="false" refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[XSP.openDialog(getID('contentDialog'),'',{"docID":"","newDoc":"false"});]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
</xp:table>
<xp:panel id="ddPanel">
<xe:dynamicViewPanel id="mainView" width="100%" dataTableStyleClass="table table-bordered table-condensed table-hover" rows="10" var="myView"
showColumnHeader="true" customizerBean="com.hcl.igdm.PickerViewBeanMainViews" partialRefresh="true" refreshId="ddPanel"
>
<xe:this.data>
<xp:dominoView var="mainDataView" dataCache="nodata">
<xp:this.viewName><![CDATA[#{javascript:sessionScope.showView.split("~")[0]}]]></xp:this.viewName>
</xp:dominoView>
</xe:this.data>
<xe:this.rowAttrs>
<xp:attr name="onClick">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:return "javascript:myJSFunction();"}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:attr>
</xe:this.rowAttrs>
</xe:dynamicViewPanel>
<xp:pager layout="Previous Group Next" partialRefresh="true" id="pager" for="mainView" title="Pager"></xp:pager>
</xp:panel>

Answer 1

It's a long time ago this question was placed... but maybe the answer can help other people.
You can put the dynamicViewPanel into a 'dynamic content' container (from ExtLib) with partial events attribute set to true. This will convert the full update events into partial refresh events.
<xe:dynamicContent partialEvents="true">
...
</xe:dynamicContent>