How to add ShowDetailItem to PanelAccordion at runtime (Programatically)?

Question

Hi,
I am creating a PanelAccordion in a popup programatically.
I have add & delete CommandButtons in popup, using which i am trying to add and delete ShowDetailItem from PanelAccordian.
I tried to call a ActionListener on CommandButton to add showDetailItem to Accordion at runtime. But its not working.
This is how i am trying to implement:
RichPanelAccordion contactsContainer = new RichPanelAccordion();
public void BuildUI(){
        RichPanelGroupLayout parentContainer = new RichPanelGroupLayout();
       // Adding button
        RichCommandButton addContact = new RichCommandButton();
        addContact.setText("Add Contact");
        MethodExpression addEx =
          adfUtils.resloveMethod("#{pageFlowScope.contactsBean.addNewContact}",
                        Object.class, new Class[] { });
        addContact.setActionExpression(addEx);
        // Adding Accordion
        RichPanelAccordion contactsContainer = new RichPanelAccordion();
        contactsContainer.setId("contactsContainer");
        parentContainer.getChildren().add(addContact);
        parentContainer.getChildren().add(addContact);
    public void addNewContact() {
      RichShowDetailItem contact = new RichShowDetailItem();
      contact.setText("New Contact");
      contactsContainer.getChildren().add(contact);
      System.out.println("::: Add Contact :::" +  contactsContainer.getChildren().size());
      RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(contactsContainer);
    }While creation of PanelAccordion, i added couple of ShowDetailItems to it.
After calling addNewContactMethod, its not getting updated with new one.
I tried to get the children of panel accordion while adding. It is showing zero. To access this PanelAccordion in outside, i initialized panelAccordion globally. I think thats y its showing children zero.
How to achieve this requirement? Looking for some ideas.
Thanks in Advance.
Thoom..

Answer 1

Hi Thoom,
First of all, debug your code, and try to pay attention if each request you're doing is creating a new RichPanelAccordion (watching the id of instance). If yes, verify your MB scope (pageFlowScope is better) and test your instance before add:
public RichPanelAccordion  getContactsContainer(){
if (contactsContainer  == null)
contactsContainer = new RichPanelAccordion();
return  contactsContainer  ;
Regards,