Popup panels in RichFaces are pretty ugly to work with to be honest. There are several calls to some JavaScripts involved which makes it not easy to derive something that works in general. Anyway, I was trying the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<h:commandLink>
<h:graphicImage library="images/icons" name="#{buttonImageFileName}" />
<rich:tooltip value="#{buttonTooltipText}" direction="bottomRight" />
<rich:componentControl target="#{popupId}" operation="show" />
</h:commandLink>
<rich:popupPanel modal="true"
height="#{popupHeight}"
resizeable="#{popupResizable}"
onmaskclick="#{componentCallToId}.hide(); return false;"
id="#{popupId}">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{popupHeaderText}" />
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="controls">
<h:outputLink value="#" onclick="#{componentCallToId}.hide(); return false;">
<h:outputText value="X" />
</h:outputLink>
</f:facet>
<p>#{popupSubject}</p>
<p>
<h:inputText value="#{inputTextBean[inputTextProperty]}" styleClass="full-width" id="#{inputTextId}" />
</p>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" style="margin: 0 auto;">
<h:commandButton value="OK"
action="#{acceptButtonBean[acceptButtonMethod](acceptButtonMethodArg)}"
onclick="#{componentCallToId}.hide(); return true;">
<a4j:ajax execute="#this #{inputTextId}" render="#form" />
</h:commandButton>
<h:commandButton value="Cancel" onclick="#{componentCallToId}.hide(); return false;" immediate="true" />
</h:panelGrid>
</rich:popupPanel>
</ui:composition>
This displays an image button which pops up a simple input dialog, which is supposed to be hidden by clicking outside the popup (onmaskclick="..."), by X'ing the popup in the top right corner (<f:facet> with onclick="..."), or by pressing the Cancel <h:commandButton onclick="...">. On OK the AJAX form is supposed to be submitted and the popup is hidden, too. But nothing happens (can't close):
The EL expression #{componentCallToId}.hide(); return false; is the "problem child" in the above. It is not working that way.
In its original, non-Facelets variant here (http://showcase.richfaces.org/richfaces/component-sample.jsf?demo=popup&sample=modalPopup&skin=classic) the call to control the component looks like this:
<h:commandButton value="Cancel" onclick="#{rich:component('add-root-chapter-popup')}.hide(); return false;" immediate="true" />
I pass the following parameters to <ui:include>:
<ui:include src="/subviews/add-node-clink-input-popup.xhtml">
<ui:param name="buttonImageFileName" value="add.png" />
...
<ui:param name="popupId" value="add-root-chapter-popup" />
<ui:param name="componentControlCallToId" value="rich:component('add-root-chapter-popup')" />
...
</ui:include>
Notice the long entry (the rest seems to be working - even the strange syntax for the bean + method + arg, but this is not the focus here).
Q:
Why isn't <ui:param name="componentControlCallToId" value="rich:component('add-root-chapter-popup')" /> working? Currently nothing happens when clicking outside the popup, X'ing, or pressing OK or Cancel (popup staying).
Firebug only shows:
syntax error
.hide(); return false;
Looks like the expression is evaluated to null/empty string.
What's wrong? Can it be fixed? What are my alternatives?
PS: Note, that I've previously tried to use the "popupId" in the Facelets expression like
<h:commandButton value="Cancel" onclick="#{rich:component('popupId')}.hide(); return false;" immediate="true" />
but this has the same result.
Omitting the single quotes did the trick:
<h:commandButton value="Cancel" onclick="#{rich:component(popupId)}.hide(); return false;" immediate="true" />
I thought they were part of JS, but they seem to be EL here.
Also you could try this:-
onmaskclick="#{rich:component('cc.attrs.popupId')}.hide()"
If the quotes cause you any problem use " instead of them.
I believe here you are trying to parse the id to the popup panel dynamically through your custom components exposed variables.
Where in you might be parsing the value for id as
popupId="xyz"
If this being the situation the above solution would work just fine.
Related
I have a Jsf page with a fragment with <p:selectOneMenu/> (Prime faces) and an Ajax associated with it. It have the default select item "--- Select One ---" and others items that were created dynamically.
This field is required, so if users submit the form without select, the page show a error message.
The problem occurs when I select one of this others options and go back selecting "--- Select One ---" again. Then the page shows the required field message, even before I submit the form. I try different ways of immediate in <p:ajax> and <p:selectOneMenu> tags but none of them has the expected behavior.
The <p:messages> is declared as below:
-- list.xhtml
<p:messages id="messages" autoUpdate="true" closable="true" escape="false" />
<.... include fragment.xhtml ....>
And the fragment:
-- fragment.xhtml
<p:selectOneMenu id="selectTipoCarro"
value="#{carroBean.carro.tipoCarroEnum}"
required="true">
<f:selectItems value="#{carroBean.listaSelectItemTipoCarroInclusao}" />
<p:ajax update="outputInicioVigenciaWrapper outputLabelCalendarInicioVigenciaWrapper"
listener="#{carroBean.aoMudarTipoCarro}" />
</p:selectOneMenu>
<h:panelGroup id="outputLabelCalendarInicioVigenciaWrapper">
<h:outputLabel id="outputLabelCalendarInicioVigencia"
rendered="#{carroBean.edicaoDataInicioVigenciaDisponivel}"
for="calendarInicioVigencia">
<span>*
#{labels['carro.inicio.vigencia']}: </span>
<p:calendar id="calendarInicioVigencia"
value="#{carroBean.carro.dataInicioVigencia}"
showOn="button"
pattern="dd/MM/yyyy" mask="true"
required="true"/>
</h:outputLabel>
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup id="outputInicioVigenciaWrapper">
<h:outputLabel for="outputInicioVigencia"
rendered="#{not carroBean.edicaoDataInicioVigenciaDisponivel}">
<span aria-live="polite">
<h:outputText id="outputInicioVigencia"
value="#{carroBean.carro.dataInicioVigencia}"
styleClass="dataFormat"
</h:outputText>
</span>
</h:outputLabel>
</h:panelGroup>
private SelectItem obterSelectItemSelecione() {
SelectItem selectItem = new SelectItem("", "-- Select One --");
return selectItem;
}
private void preencherListaSelectItemTipoCarro(List<SelectItem> select, TipoCarroEnum[] tiposCarrosConsiderados) {
select.clear();
select.add(obterSelectItemSelecione());
for (TipoCarroEnum tipoCarro : tiposCarrosConsiderados) {
select.add(new SelectItem(tipoCarro, tipoCarro.getNome()));
}
}
public void aoMudarTipoCarro() {
getCarro().setDataInicioVigencia(carroService.obterProximaDataInicioVigenciaDisponivel(getCarro().getTipoCarroEnum()));
}
That's the expected behaviour. When adding a p:ajax tag to your p:selectOneMenu you make the value be processed everytime the user changes the input, so it will be validated and rejected if you mark it as required. My favourite workaround for this cases is to include a request param in the button to submit the whole form and check for it in the required attribute. That's it:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
xmlns:comp="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/comp"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:head />
<h:body>
<h:form>
<p:messages autoUpdate="true" />
<p:selectOneMenu value="#{val}"
required="#{param['validate']}">
<p:ajax event="change" />
<f:selectItem itemLabel="None" noSelectionOption="true" />
<f:selectItem itemLabel="val1" itemValue="val1" />
</p:selectOneMenu>
<p:commandButton value="Submit" ajax="false">
<f:param name="validate" value="true" />
</p:commandButton>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
See also:
Conditionally skip JSF validation but perform model updates
Explanation
This happens because you have a p:messages component with autoUpdate set to true and you have attached p:ajax to your selectOneMenu so anytime your value changes, p:messages is updated. Therefore, due to the use of required="true" an error messages is shown as soon as you have selected "--- Select One ---".
Solution
Add ignoreAutoUpdate="true" to your p:ajax or
Remove autoUpdate="true" if not necessary
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
and open the template in the editor.
-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
<f:view>
<h:head>
<title>Admin Welcome</title>
<!-- this is the javascript part! -->
<script>
function validateForm()
{
if(document.form.firstname.value=="" || document.form.lastname.value=="" || document.form.mobileno.value=="")
{
alert("first/lastname/mobile number should not be left blank");
document.userreg.fname.focus();
return false;
}
if(!isNaN(document.form.firstname.value) || !isNaN(document.form.lastname.value) )
{
alert("Please Enter Only Characters for first/last names");
return false;
}
if(isNaN(document.form.mobileno.value))
{
alert("please enter only Numbers for mobile number")
return false;
}
}
</script>
</h:head>
<h:body>
Welcome admin!
<center><h1>User Registration Form</h1></center>
<center><h:form id="form">
<p:panel id="panel">
<p:messages id="msgs"/>
<h:panelGrid columns="3" >
<h:panelGroup>
<h:outputLabel for="firstname" value="firstname: *" />
<p:inputText id="firstname" value="#{userBean.firstname}" required="true" label="firstname">
</p:inputText>
<br></br> <br></br>
<h:outputLabel for="lastname" value="lastname: *" />
<p:inputText id="lastname" value="#{userBean.lastname}" label="lastname" required="true">
</p:inputText>
<br></br><br></br>
<h:outputLabel for="mobileno" value="mobileno: *" />
<p:inputText id="mobileno" value="#{userBean.mobileno}" label="mobileno" required="true">
</p:inputText>
</h:panelGroup>
</h:panelGrid>
<br></br>
<p:commandButton ajax="false" id="btn" value="submit" type='submit' onclick="return validateForm()" />
<p:commandButton value="reset" type="reset" />
</p:panel>
</h:form></center>
</h:body>
</f:view>
</html>
the javascript part is not getting executed. why?
To strictly answer your question, check the javascript error console. One of the error messages that you will see is the following (from FireFox on my end).
TypeError: document.form.firstname is undefined
The easiest way to fix your issue is to add prependId="false" in your <h:form>.
If you do not like the prependId = "false" approach, you could also change
document.form.firstname
to
document.form["form" + ":" + "firstname"].value
This will need to be done throughout your Javascript method, so keep this in mind.
Remember that your components id such as p:inputText id="firstname"... for example will have the following pattern formId:componentId. It would then be form:firstname. Of course this is a simplified explanation and this may not always be the case. For more information please refer to
How can I know the id of a JSF component so I can use in Javascript
Also, the easiest way to determine component id is to simply view the HTML code (right click > View Page Source).
<f:view> is really not needed in your case, (unless there's more we're not seeing of course). Like erencan suggested refer to this link also
When to use f:view and f:subview
I create a composition template:
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:cs="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/composite">
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{not empty userc.userb.user.id}">
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
<h:outputText value="Welcome, " />
<h:outputLink value="profile.xhtml">
<h:outputText value="#{userc.personb.person.name}" />
</h:outputLink>
<h:form>
<h:commandLink action="#{userc.logout}">Log out</h:commandLink>
</h:form>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{empty userc.userb.user.id}">
<h:outputLink value="pages/login.xhtml">Login</h:outputLink>
</h:panelGroup>
</ui:composition>
My intention is to hide the first panelGroup if the user is not logged, if he does then I hide the second panelGroup then show the first one.
I'm trying do this but doesn't work.
Any idea ?
Without login:
After login:
with login http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9866/0602nov.jpg
In your entity.User class, replace
private int id;
by
private Integer id;
This way it will default to null instead of 0 and thus #{empty userc.userb.user.id} will be true. The common practice is anyway to use wrappers instead of primitives in entity's properties.
I've created an ui:component to use like a popup, so I can create a lot of popups using the standard of this template.
The component is just a popup with two buttons (cancel and submit) and a content that can be overriden, like you can see here:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">
<ui:component>
<p:dialog widgetVar="#{idPopup}" id="#{idPopup}" modal="#{popup.modal}"
draggable="#{popup.modal}"
rendered="#{popup.visivel}" visible="#{popup.visivel}"
closeOnEscape="false" closable="false" header="#{titulo}"
resizable="false" styleClass="autoWidthDialog" showEffect="fade"
hideEffect="fade">
<h:panelGroup style="width:100%">
<p:focus />
<ui:insert name="conteudo">Nenhum conteúdo definido!</ui:insert>
<h:panelGrid id="#{idPopup}PainelMensagens" style="width:100%">
<p:messages />
</h:panelGrid>
<ui:insert name="barraDeBotoes">
<h:panelGroup layout="block" style="width:100%">
<p:commandButton value="CANCELAR" immediate="true" update="#form"
style="float:right" action="#{controladorPopup.fechar}"
onclick="#{idPopup}.hide();" />
<p:commandButton value="OK" style="float:right"
update="#form formAlerta"
action="#{controladorPopup.submit}"
process="#form" />
</h:panelGroup>
</ui:insert>
</h:panelGroup>
</p:dialog>
</ui:component>
</html>
The problem happen when I try to submit the form without filling the required fields. The correct behavior is just show again the popup with messages, but the dialog is rendered twice, one with the messages and one without the messages.
You can see this behavior here:
this is one use of this template:
<ui:composition template="../templates/popupSubmit.xhtml">
<ui:param name="titulo" value="Buscar pessoa" />
<ui:param name="popup" value="#{modeloPopupBuscaPessoa}" />
<ui:param name="controladorPopup"
value="#{controladorPopupBuscaPessoa}" />
<ui:define name="conteudo">
<h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputLabel value="Tipo de cadastro:" style="float:none" />
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{controladorSugestaoPessoa.tipoCadastro}"
immediate="true">
<f:selectItems value="#{carregadorTipoCadastro.itens}" />
<f:ajax event="change" immediate="true" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</h:panelGrid>
<h:outputText value="Buscar por:" />
<h:selectOneRadio value="#{controladorSugestaoPessoa.tipoBusca}"
immediate="true">
<f:selectItems value="#{carregadorTipoBuscaPessoa.itens}" />
<f:ajax event="change" immediate="true" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
<p:autoComplete value="#{modeloPopupBuscaPessoa.itemSelecionado}"
forceSelection="true" maxResults="10" queryDelay="500"
completeMethod="#{controladorSugestaoPessoa.atualizarSugestoes}"
var="pessoa" itemLabel="#{pessoa.label}" itemValue="#{pessoa}"
converter="#{conversorSelectItem}" />
</h:panelGroup>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
And these are some use:
<h:form id="cadastroPessoa">
<ui:include
src="resources/components/popups/modulo_cadastro/popupNovoCadastroPessoa.xhtml">
<ui:param name="idPopup" value="popupNovoCadastroPessoa" />
</ui:include>
<ui:include
src="resources/components/popups/modulo_cadastro/popupCadastroPessoa.xhtml">
<ui:param name="idPopup" value="popupEdicaoCadastroPessoa" />
</ui:include>
<ui:include
src="resources/components/popups/modulo_cadastro/popupBuscaPessoa.xhtml">
<ui:param name="idPopup" value="popupBuscaCadastroPessoa" />
</ui:include>
</h:form>
<h:form id="cadastroProduto">
<ui:include
src="resources/components/popups/modulo_cadastro/popupCadastroProduto.xhtml">
<ui:param name="idPopup" value="popupNovoCadastroProduto" />
</ui:include>
</h:form>
Could someone tell me why this is happening??
I've posted the same question in primefaces forum (like Tommy Chan told), and someone answered this:
You are probably placing your dialog in the form you are updating which is a nono. Never update the dialog only the stuff in the dialog
I've tried to do this until I saw all my dialogs have "rendered" attribute coming from server (just see the first xml), I have a lot of dialogs in this application and some of them have relation with others (on server), these last are on the same form.
I did something different, I only created this javascript code:
function removerDialogo(id) {
setTimeout(function() {
removerDialogoAposIntervalo(id);
}, 100);
}
function removerDialogoAposIntervalo(id) {
id = id.replace(':', '\\:');
jQuery('div.ui-dialog')
.find('#' + id)
.parent().eq(1)
.remove();
}
and called this on dialog "onShow" attribute:
<p:dialog widgetVar="#{idPopup}" id="#{idPopup}" modal="#{popup.modal}"
draggable="#{popup.modal}" rendered="#{popup.visivel}"
visible="#{popup.visivel}" closeOnEscape="false" closable="false"
header="#{titulo}" resizable="false" styleClass="autoWidthDialog"
showEffect="fade" hideEffect="fade" onShow="removerDialogo(this.id)">
I don't like to do things like this, but I can't find a better way to solve this...
If someone give me a better solution, I will be grateful
In my case I cannot user oncompleteI) method to hide the dialog because it has to be closed to some business logic.
I my case I have use primefaces tabs on UI. Every time I navigate the tabs and then click on button on which dialog appears then my dialogs number are increasing proportionality
So I have used simple jquery script to remove all the duplication dialog from the UI
e UI.
function removeDuplicateDialogs(dialogId) {
\\ generally all our components have : character we have to
\\ replace ':' with '\\:'(applying escape character)
dialogId = dialogId.replace(/\:/g, '\\:');
var dialogs = jQuery("div[id=" + dialogId + "]");
var numOfDialogs = dialogs.length;
numOfDialogs = numOfDialogs - 1;
for (var i = 0; i < numOfDialogs; i++) {
jQuery(dialogs[i]).remove();
}
}
As i said on the primefaces forum, you are updating your forms with the dialog in it... you need to place your dialogs out of your form and update them seperatly. If you need to use a form in your dialog then place it in you dialog:
<p:dialog><p:form> </p:form> </p:dialog>
I had the same problem with a dialog, the solution was place in the update of the commandButton that show the dialog component the specific id of the Dialog Component not the form id, the solution looks like this:
<p:dialog id="dialogId">
<p:commandButton value="OK" style="float:right"
update="#form dialogId"
action="#{controladorPopup.submit}"
process="#form"/>
</p:dialog>
I would check that your widgetVar="#{idPopup}" id="#{idPopup}" is the same before you submit and after you submit the form. Maybe it has changed and primefaces thinks it doesn't exist anymore and creates a new one.
Add the oncomplete attribute to your submit button and let it hide the dialog:
<p:commandButton value="OK" style="float:right"
update="#form formAlerta"
action="#{controladorPopup.submit}"
process="#form"
oncomplete="#{idPopup}.hide();"/>
putting the forms inside dialog isnt the best way to solve it, if you access your application with IExplorer, dialogs wont work with this approach
This is an awful bug with no official answer...
I'm using a dialog to render a Google map. The way I handle the bug (using JQuery) is by counting the number of ".map" elements in the DOM on primefaces:dialog.onShow... I then select the :last .map instance rendered (or in your case, whatever content class you're working with), and .remove() the dialog which contains it:
Markup (approx):
<pri:dialog onShow="popupOpen();" etc...>
<div id="map" class"map"></div>
</pri:dialog>
JavaScript:
function onShowDialog(){
if($(".map").length > 1){
$cull = $(".map:last");
$cull.closest(".ui-dialog").remove();
}
}
If you're a sadist you could, quite comfortably, make that a one liner... I see this as a Primefaces bug. The close button should outright destroy the dialog.
I'm having a problem with the tag in JSF2.0 and I hope someone can point out what I'm doing wrong. Here's what I've got in the UI:
<h:panelGroup>
<h:form id="theForm">
<h:selectOneMenu id="theMenu" value="#{viewBean.selectedItem}">
<f:ajax event="change" render="selectedItemText"/>
<f:selectItem itemLabel=""/>
<f:selectItems value="#{viewBean.selectableItems}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:outputText id="selectedItemText" value="#{viewBean.selectedItemText}" />
</h:form>
</h:panelGroup>
This is working great - my conversation-scoped backing bean has a method setSelectedItem, and it's called and it does its thing the first time I select a different item from the menu; the output text is updated in the frontend, and I'm happy. However, further changes to the menu selection do not trigger a call to the setter via ajax. I've also tried this with a listener on the f:ajax tag - the listener method is only called that first time as well (breakpoints in the code to figure this out).
Am I doing something incorrectly?
I had a similar problem.
My second commandButton below only works once in the JSF view below that has a view param. Adding <f:param> to my first commandButton solved the problem. This is a situation not covered by BalusC's very helpful discussion.
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<f:view>
<f:metadata>
<f:viewParam name="id" value="#{fooManager.millis}" required="true"/>
</f:metadata>
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="fooForm">
<h:commandButton
id="barBbutton"
value="foo:test"
action="#{fooManager.test}">
<f:param name="id" value="1"/>
<f:ajax render="fooMillis1"/>
</h:commandButton>
<p>
<h:outputText id="fooMillis1" value="foo:display1: #{fooManager.millis}"/>
</p>
<p>
<h:outputText id="fooMillis2" value="foo:display2: #{fooManager.millis}"/>
</p>
</h:form>
<h:form id="barForm">
<h:commandButton
id="barButton"
value="bar:test"
action="#{barManager.test}">
<f:ajax render="barMillis1"/>
</h:commandButton>
<p>
<h:outputText id="barMillis1" value="bar:display1: #{barManager.millis}"/>
</p>
<p>
<h:outputText id="barMillis2" value="bar:display2: #{barManager.millis}"/>
</p>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</f:view>
</html>
And my FooManager and BarManager look the same:
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class FooManager {
public long getMillis() {
return millis;
}
public void setMillis(long millis) {
this.millis = millis;
}
public void test() {
setMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
}
private long millis;
}
When it is not working, my Weblogic/Mojarra library does not give any helpful hint. There is no error anywhere. It was only after numerous tries that I came up with a working button like the first one above.
I had the same issue.
For the code below ajax was run only once.
<h:inputText id="element_id" value="#{viewBean.someValue}"></h:inputText>
<h:commandLink action="#{viewBean.someAction}" value="click me">
<f:ajax render=":my_form:another_element" execute="element_id> </f:ajax>
</h:commandLink>
When I add to render attribute the element which I'm executing then the ajax is triggered every time.
<h:inputText id="element_id" value="#{viewBean.someValue}"></h:inputText>
<h:commandLink action="#{viewBean.someAction}" value="click me">
<f:ajax render=":my_form:another_element element_id" execute="element_id> </f:ajax>
</h:commandLink>
I had a similar problem, in my case everithing worked fine in all browsers except that in IE9 the ajax was fired only once.
I was using render="#form" and when I changed it to render="#all", it worked fine. I dunno why, since I only have one Form in that page, and all my components are in that form.
So I would advise you to check the render and execute tags, at least in my case it was the solution
I had the same bug, fixed it using Primeface's p:ajax instead of f:ajax.