Complex form layout and PPR

Question

I have a form containing several other ADF Faces components. The first component is a selectOneChoice and I use it to trigger a PPR request. The purpose of this request is to conditionnally re-display the jsf components according to the selection (hiding / showing). Everything is working fine if a just drag and drop the components directly inside a panelForm and I set a condition to the render attribute. Except, now that I have to make a complex layout, I need to put layout components such as panelHorizontal inside the panelForm. And here is the problem, the rendering rules inside my components surrounded by another panel does not get executed.
Ex.:
<af:panelForm partialTriggers="mode">
<af:selectOneChoice id="mode" autoSubmit="true">
<af:panelHorizontal render="#{bean.render}">
<!-- This won't work -->
<af:inputText render="#{bean.render}"/>
</af:panelHorizontal>
<!-- This works -->
<af:inputText render="#{bean.render}"/>
</af:panelForm>
What would be your recommendations for achieving a complex layout inside a PPR-triggered form ?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
in your case, both panelHorizontal and inputText either render or don't render. A component that doesn't exist, because it is no rendered doesn't make a partial target. So in your case setting panelHorizontal to render should allow you to show/hide the inputText
Frank