How can I access the option selected in ui:radioButtonGroup in javascript

Question

Hi,
I'd like to access the option selected in ui:radioButtonGroup in my javascript.
I tried doing something like this to no avail:
<ui:radioButtonGroup binding="#{ReportParameter.reportTypeButtonGroup}" id="reportTypeButtonGroup" items="#{ReportParameter.reportTypeButtonGroupDefaultOptions.options}" onClick="common_timeoutSubmitForm(this.form, 'table:tr:td:reportTypeButtonGroup');" valueChangeListener="#{ReportParameter.reportTypeButtonGroup_processValueChange}"/>
function say_hello ()
       var myVar2 = document.getElementById("form1:reportTypeButtonGroup");
        alert("Value is againg: " + myVar2.value);
}but this always returns the first option. How would I access what value the user selected? Also, I cannot find any docs on how I would access fields of jsf components through javascript. Are there any books, links or resources I can follow so that I can use javascript in my jsf applications?
Thanks,
Marc

Answer 1

yes, i should expand.....the external hard drive i link iphoto to has had an error and basically the iphoto package is hoarding all of my photos so i'm searching everywhere i can to piece back the 1 TB of photos that are gone. data recovery is too expensive from what i have found so i'm left trying to do this! i have another external drive that backs up my entire system on a regular basis throughout the day. i was able to recover the iphoto library from a few months ago before it was deleted (it had been backed up). so i'm only missing a few months of photos now. i was hoping if i could access the trash files (if they're backed up on this drive) that i would find photographs that had been on my desktop and then i'd put in the trash......does that help clarify??? so i basically want to look in the trash bin that was backed up in several files on this drive (IF that's even possible!) thanks for your help!!!