Display or hide an af:panelHorizontal, what happens to child elements?

Question

Based on a value in an af:selectOneChoice, I want to either display or hide an af:panelHorizontal element.
1.) How do I do this with the partialTriggers attribute, do I use the render attribute?
2.) What happens to the child elements inside of the af:panelHorizontal, are those displayed as well?
If the af:panelHorizontal is displayed, can I access the children in the managed bean?
Thanks,
--Todd                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Answer 1

Well, I believe I figured it out.
Each of the components in question had the rendered attribute set to a Boolean type field in the managed bean.
By default, the field value was false.
In my JSF 1.2 beforePhase event, I was setting the value to true based on a logic within the method.
"That worked."
So, everything was rendering or not rendering when I wanted it too.
But - as soon as I tried to get the user's values - typed or selected - in the components, I would get null or default values instead of the user's values.
I tried a lot of different approaches, I tried getting the user values through the value and binding attributes and nothing worked.
So, I removed the rendered attribute to the components in question and I could get the values.
"Strange"
So, to solve the rendered or not rendered logic requirement for the page, I went through the binding instead, such as:
<af:selectOneRadio id="failoverFTPFileNameCase"
label="#{common.labelFileNameCase}"
partialTriggers="failover"
binding="#{routingRule.failoverFTPFileNameCaseSelectOneRadio}">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="mixed" itemValue="mixed"/>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="lower" itemValue="lower"/>
<f:selectItem itemLabel="upper" itemValue="upper"/>
</af:selectOneRadio>
And just set the rendering in the managed bean with:
this.failoverFTPFileNameCaseSelectOneRadio.setRendered(false);
Plus, I got the value with:
oFailoverFTPFileName = this.failoverFTPFileNameCaseSelectOneRadio.getValue()
"And Violá, it worked!"
I could get the value of the component and fulfill the rendered or not rendered logic.
"Why this is, I'm still trying to figure that out"
Thanks,
--Todd