Grouping of buttons and more with toolbar
by Oleg Varaksin, Mert Çalışkan
PrimeFaces Cookbook - Second Edition
- PrimeFaces Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- PrimeFaces Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- Foreword
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with PrimeFaces
- 2. Theming Concepts
- 3. Enhanced Inputs and Selects
- Introduction
- Formatted input with inputMask
- Auto suggestion with autoComplete
- Usable features of inputTextArea
- Discovering selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox
- Choosing a single item with selectOneMenu
- Basic and advanced calendar scenarios
- Spinner – different ways to provide input
- Slider – different ways to provide input
- Rich text editing with the editor
- Advanced editing with an in-place editor
- Enhanced password input
- Star-based rating input
- 4. Grouping Content with Panels
- Introduction
- Grouping content with a standard panel
- PanelGrid with colspan and rowspan support
- Vertical stacked panels with accordion
- Displaying overflowed content with scrollPanel
- Working with a tabbed panel
- Grouping of buttons and more with toolbar
- The multipurpose output panel
- Simulating the portal environment with dashboard
- Creating complex layouts
- Responsive layout with Grid CSS
- 5. Data Iteration Components
- Introduction
- Selecting rows in dataTable
- Sorting and filtering data in dataTable
- In-cell editing with dataTable
- Resizing, reordering, and toggling columns in dataTable
- Making dataTable responsive
- Using subTable for grouping
- Handling tons of data – LazyDataModel
- Listing data with dataList
- Listing data with pickList
- Listing data with orderList
- Visualizing data with tree
- Visualizing data with treeTable
- Exporting data in various formats
- Managing events with schedule by leveraging lazy loading
- Visualizing data with dataScroller
- 6. Endless Menu Variations
- Introduction
- Statically and dynamically positioned menus
- Creating programmatic menus
- The context menu with nested items
- Integrating the context menu
- Breadcrumb – providing contextual information about page hierarchy
- SlideMenu – menu in the iPod style
- TieredMenu – submenus in nested overlays
- MegaMenu – the multicolumn menu
- PanelMenu – hybrid of accordion and tree
- MenuButton – multiple items in a popup
- Accessing commands via menubar
- Displaying checkboxes in selectCheckboxMenu
- 7. Working with Files, Images, and Multimedia
- Introduction
- Basic, automatic, drag and drop, and multiple file uploading
- Downloading files
- Cropping images
- Creating dynamic image streaming programmatically
- Displaying a collection of images with galleria
- Displaying a collection of images with imageSwitch
- Displaying a collection of images with contentFlow
- Embedding the multimedia content in JSF pages
- Capturing images with photoCam
- 8. Drag Me, Drop Me
- 9. Creating Charts and Maps
- Introduction
- Creating line, area, bar, and pie charts
- Creating combined charts
- Updating live data in charts with polling
- Interacting with charts via AJAX
- Basic mapping with GMaps
- Adding, selecting, and dragging markers in maps
- Creating rectangles, circles, polylines, and polygons in maps
- Enabling InfoWindow and streetView on maps
- 10. Client-side Validation
- 11. Miscellaneous Advanced Use Cases
- Introduction
- Programmatic updating and scrolling with RequestContext
- Two ways of triggering the JavaScript execution
- Adding AJAX callback parameters – validation within a dialog
- Opening external pages in dynamically generated dialogs
- Polling – sending periodical AJAX requests
- Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls
- Controlling form submission using defaultCommand
- Clever focus management in forms
- Layout pitfalls of menus and dialogs
- Targetable messages with severity levels
- Conditional coloring in dataTable
- Sticking a component when scrolling
- Reducing page load time using content caching
- Possibilities for exception handling in PrimeFaces
- Index
A horizontal grouping component, toolbar can be used to group commands and other components. In this recipe, we will create a toolbar with two groups that bundle buttons and menu items.
A definition of a toolbar with multiple groups would be as follows:
<p:toolbar>
<p:toolbarGroup align="left">
<p:commandButton type="push" value="New"
icon="ui-icon-document" />
<p:commandButton type="push" value="Open"
icon="ui-icon-folder-open"/>
<p:separator />
<p:commandButton type="push" title="Save"
icon="ui-icon-disk"/>
<p:commandButton type="push" title="Delete"
icon="ui-icon-trash"/>
<p:commandButton type="push" title="Print"
icon="ui-icon-print"/>
</p:toolbarGroup>
<p:toolbarGroup align="right">
<p:menuButton value="Navigate">
<p:menuitem value="Home" url="#" />
<p:menuitem value="Logout" url="#" />
</p:menuButton>
</p:toolbarGroup>
</p:toolbar>This definition will be visualized as shown in the following image:
By default, toolbar has two placeholders, left and right, which can be defined with the toolbarGroup component or facet. There is no limit on the number of components that can be put inside toolbarGroup or facet. The <p:toolbarGroup align="left"> component definition can also be defined as a facet, such as <f:facet name="left">. The separator component can be used to visually separate the components from each other, such as between the components inside the toolbarGroup component, as given in the example.
This recipe is available in the demo web application on GitHub (https://github.com/ova2/primefaces-cookbook/tree/second-edition). Clone the project if you have not done it yet, explore the project structure, and build and deploy the WAR file on application servers compatible with Servlet 3.x, such as JBoss WildFly and Apache TomEE.
The showcase for the recipe is available at http://localhost:8080/pf-cookbook/views/chapter4/toolbar.jsf.
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