How do I synchronize a table of employees with and employee update form?

Question

WHAT i AM TRYING TO DO:
Create a page with two areas. The top will contain a sortable, filterable list of employees. The bottom of the page will contain all of the details on a selected employee.
WHAT I HAVE DONE:
1. Created a DEPT_EMPLOYEES view with just some basic department and employee information.
2. Created Entities and View Objects based on the DEPT_EMPLOYEES view and the EMPLOYEES table.
3. Created a View Link between the DeptEmpROView (source) and EmployeesUView (destination)
3. Created a page with a panel splitter an dropped the DeptEmpROView in the top as and ADF Table.
4. Dropped the EmployeeUView on the bottom part of the pages as and ADF Form.
WHAT HAPPENS.
1. When I open the page the list of employees is displayed on top, and the first employee is displayed below.
2. When I click on another row in the table the form below does not change. I had expected it to.
3. If I right-click on a row in the table and select "reload" from the options the page is re-drawn and the bottom form is populated with the data that matches the row I clicked on.
WHAT I WANTED
When you click on an entry, to have the bottom part of the page refreshed to match the selected entry.
QUESTIONS:
1. I thought I had followed all of the steps to prepare a master-detail setup. Do this not work with a table as the master? Or did I miss a step? Or am I using components in a way they were not intended?
2. When I look at the ViewLink I see in the Destination that the where clause :Bind_EmployeeId = EMPLOYEE_ID will be appended to the query. I would then guess that :Bind_EmployeeId is not set when I click on a row. Is there a way to make that happen?
3. I notice in the af:table documentation there is an org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.event.SelectionEvent defined. Can I somehow intercept this and set the bind variable then? If so, how to I tell the form to refresh?
5. Another clue. When I run the page I get some warnings. One is "Reference selectedRow not found" . Double clicking on that gets me to a line selectedRowKeys="#{bindings.DeptEmployeesROView2.collectionModel.selectedRow}"
6. Another warning message "Reference makeCurrent not found" gets me to selectionListener="#{bindings.DeptEmployeesROView2.collectionModel.makeCurrent}"
It sure seems like these last two must have something to do with it.
Any clues would be appreciated.
Edited by: rrp on Jan 3, 2011 12:47 PM

Answer 1

Shay,
Thanks for pointing me to that tutorial. The synchronization is now working.
For anyone else that might find this discussion:
To make it work I selected the af:paneFormLayout that held the EmployeeUView.
In the properties there is a PartialTriggers property in the Behavior section.
I highlighted this property and selected the Edit option.
This allowed me to navigate the component tree and pick the table holding the DeptEmpROView.
That was it. Now clicking on the table changes the details displayed in the form.
There are questions, but they are more followon:
1. The tutorial surrounded the "list table" with a panelCollection. I did not do that. I don't know why or why not to use the panelCollection.
2. The tutorial made a point of setting the ColumnSelection attribute to single for the List table. I did not find this changed the behavior in any way and was wondering why.
3. The tutorial also made a point of changing the ContextMenuSelect for the list table to "clickToEdit".
3a. I did not see how this changed the behavior
3b. Why "clickToEdit" on a read-only table?