Bulleted List of Hyperlinks

Question

I can't figure out how to output a bulleted list of hyperlinks based on data returned from a query.
Here is what I want to do:
<c:forEach items="${q_subjects.rows}" var="row">
    <li>
        <a href="browse.jsp?sc=<c:out  value="${row.code}"/>">
            <c:out value="${row.short_desc}" />
        </a>
    </li>
</c:forEach>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

HI JenRRoland,
You can output a list of hyperlinks using a h:dataTable.
Just drag a dataTable to the page from the palette, right click the table and choose Table Layout.
In the table layout clear out all except one column, and make sure this is of type outputText.
Then drag a commandLink or outputLink to the page from the palette. Switch to Source view, and replace the h:outputText in the column (NOT the one in the facet name="header") with the commandLink/outputLink. Be sure to remove the style="" tag from the link component.
Apply whatever value binding expression you want and that's it, it'll display a list of hyperLinks. You can remove the header and footer styles using the column classes attribute. (see http://blogs.sun.com/tor)
Ultimately you'll get something like this:
<h:dataTable binding="#{ProjectDetails.dataTable1}" headerClass="list-header" id="dataTable1"                                    rowClasses="list-row-even,list-row-odd" value="#{ProjectDetails.patents}" var="patent" width="864">
<h:column binding="#{ProjectDetails.column2}" id="column2">
<h:commandLink action="ClaimListLong" actionListener="#{ProjectDetails.processAction}"                                            binding="#{ProjectDetails.laSelectPatent}" id="laSelectPatent" title="#{patent.index}">
<h:outputText binding="#{ProjectDetails.latSelectPatent}" id="latSelectPatent" value="#{patent.formattedPatentNumber}"/>
</h:commandLink>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{ProjectDetails.outputText3}" id="outputText3" value="Patent#"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{ProjectDetails.column5}" id="column5">
<h:outputLink binding="#{ProjectDetails.hyperlink1}" id="hyperlink1" value="ProjectPatentRankings.jsp?linkID=#{patent.index}">
<h:outputText binding="#{ProjectDetails.hyperlink1Text}" id="hyperlink1Text" value="View/Change"/>
</h:outputLink>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{ProjectDetails.outputText9}" id="outputText9" value="Rankings"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>There should be a way in Creator to do this automatically.. I hope they add one...