bootsfaces b:commandButton in ui:repeat not updating h:graphicImage - jsf

I'm using the 0.7 version of bootsfaces to create a simple page, which has something like the following:
<h:form id="some_form">
<ui:repeat id="some_elements" var="property" value="#{someBean.properties}">
<b:commandButton value="ShowProp" ajax="true" actionListener="#{someBean.showProperty(property)}" update=":some_form:some_elements:graphic"/>
<!-- This property is true -->
<ui:fragment rendered="#{someOtherBean.showGraphic}">
<h:graphicImage url="gen_image?id=#{property.id}" id="graphic"/>
</ui:fragment>
</ui:repeat>
</h:form>
Now, the idea is that on clicking the button, a property is updated and the image should be re-generated (in this case a jfreechart graph - but this is besides the point.) I tested this with primefaces commandButton and it works fine (the graph is redrawn..) However with bootsfaces commandButton, nothing happens once the ajax call completes (I can see the call on the server side, but the graph is not reloaded.) I think it's down to how it must reference the image in the repeated block, but now sure what is wrong - has anyone come across this?
(NOTE: reason I don't want to use primefaces is that it does not integrate well with bootstrap)

I've opened a bug on the project's bugtracker (https://github.com/TheCoder4eu/BootsFaces-OSP/issues/135).
Actually, why did you expect the update=":some_form:some_elements:graphic" to work in the first place? This expression is an id that doesn't exist. The id is some_form:some_elements:0:graphic. In other words: it contains the row number. PrimeFaces (and Mojarra and MyFaces) recognizes that the command button is part of a UIRepeat group and guesses the correct row number. But that's just a guess. Obviously a reasonable guess, because most of the time you want to update something that's in the vicinity of the command button.
The next version of BootsFaces is going to guess the correct row number, too :).

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You can see the component in action here, https://showcase.bootsfaces.net/layout/panelgrids.jsf
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I dont have 50 reputation to ask you more details in a comment, so i will answer directly hoping this is what you're asking about.
I think you mean that your problem is that the content of the ModalPanel is not rerendered dynamically. but for this you can wrap your table (or the components you want to update) in an <a4j:outputPanel> with ajaxRendered="true"
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http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_4_0_X/Component_Reference/en-US/html/chap-Component_Reference-Containers.html#sect-Component_Reference-Containers-a4joutputPanel
In my code I have something like :
<a4j:commandLink id="timelineBtn" action="#{timelineBean.doGenerateLog}"
oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('timelinePnl');return false;"
value="#{labels['timeline.button.lbl']}"/>
that opens the modalPanel :
<rich:modalPanel style="width:800;height:600;" id="timelinePnl">
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</a4j:outputPanel>
</rich:modalPanel>
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I currently try to implement a website, where an dialog, opened from an carousel, changes something in the database and the result is shown on the screen. For that, I try to update an area in the dialog. Unfortunately, updating things in an carusell does not seem to work.
I shortened the code to an minimal example, so with the following code:
<p:carousel id="page" value="#{pagebean.pages}"
var="item" numVisible="1">
<h:form id="dlg_2_form">
<h:outputText id="test_2" value="#{pagebean.value}" />
<p:remoteCommand name="update_2" update="test_2" />
Increment
</h:form>
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Say I have a websites with 3 panel grid (just for example..) and I would like to have buttons inside each grid that only cause the contents of that grid to refresh so the rest of the page doesn't necessarily have to refresh.
How do I do that?
I tried to have a form sorround that grid but it seems like the rest of the page still gets refreshed.
A Note - I'm trying to achieve something like what happens when you work with a picklist. when you move the objects between the lists there doesn't seem to be any page refresh...
Thanks!
If you are using RichFaces, you should definitivly check the Ajax chapter of the RichFaces manual. I think you will find everything you need to know there.
Here a small example for partial page rendering:
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</h:panelGrid>

JSF loop reRender

Hopefully the title isn't too cryptic ...
The problem we have is that we generate a bunch of input controls (h:inputOneMenu, h:inputText etc) from some Java List.
Works fine EXCEPT the requirement is that these inputs validate on the fly. Again not so hard except that as there controls were generated in a loop the only possible reRender action is basically the entire form or an a4j:outputPanel around each loop iteration which is basically the same thing.
Now the above two solutions technically work but they have the nasty side effect of reRendering all the page controls which makes the page feel really twitchy and clunky. We'd like to stop this from happening so ideally the only control that gets reRendered is the control that send the ajax update/validation.
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<ui:repeat value="#{seam-outjected-list}" var="item">
<a4j:outputPanel selfRendered="true">
<h:inputText value=#{item.value}>
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</h:inputText>
</a4j:outputPanel>
</ui:repeat>
I've left out a bit of stuff that just renders different controls depending on the item.
As you can see we're currently using the a4j:outputPanel solution so every time any loop generated control is updated all the controls are reRendered.
Thanks in advance if anyone has any thoughts.
My first thought is that you should try replacing your <ui:repeat> with an <a4j:repeat> and take advantage of the ajaxKeys attribute to only reRender certain rows.
From the Richfaces Docs:
The main difference of this component
from iterative components of other
libraries is a special "ajaxKeys"
attribute. This attribute defines row
keys that are updated after an Ajax
request. As a result it becomes easier
to update several child components
separately without updating the whole
page.

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