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Primefaces Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Primefaces Cookbook Second Edition Over 100 practical recipes to learn PrimeFaces 5.x – the most popular JSF component library on the planet

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784393427
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with PrimeFaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Theming Concepts 3. Enhanced Inputs and Selects 4. Grouping Content with Panels 5. Data Iteration Components 6. Endless Menu Variations 7. Working with Files, Images, and Multimedia 8. Drag Me, Drop Me 9. Creating Charts and Maps 10. Client-side Validation 11. Miscellaneous Advanced Use Cases Index

Listing data with orderList


The orderList component is used to sort a collection with the support of drag-and-drop reordering, transition effects, and POJO support.

How to do it…

A basic definition for the orderList that sorts a collection of strings would be as shown here:

<p:orderList id="simple" value="#{orderListBean.countries}"
  var="country" itemLabel="#{country}" itemValue="#{country}" />

The visual output of the component will be as shown here:

There's more…

To define a header on top of orderList, a facet with the name caption should be provided as shown here:

<p:orderList id="withCaption" value="#{orderListBean.countries}"
  var="country" itemLabel="#{country}" itemValue="#{country}">
  <f:facet name="caption">
    Countries
  </f:facet>
</p:orderList>

With the controlsLocation attribute, we can control the position of the controls. The default value is left; the other possible values are right and none.

Transition effects

Effects can be applied with the effect...

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