Refresh dataTable for Search function

Question

Hi,
I have a page that contains a dataTable and search function for the dataTable. Basically once i clicked into that page it will display the current day records for me. At the below of the dataTable, it have a search function. So once i click the search button with my search criteria, how i refresh my dataTable to display the records?
My dataTable already bind with the current day
<h:dataTable id="outbound" value="#{Outbound.current}" var="sms" bgcolor="#F1F1F1" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" first="0" rows="10" width="100%" columnClasses="outcol1,outcol2,outcol3">
                                    <h:column>
                                        <f:facet name="header">
                                            <h:outputText value="Date-In" />
                                        </f:facet>
                                         <h:outputText value="#{sms.datein}" /> 
                                    </h:column>
                                    <h:column>
                                        <f:facet name="header">
                                            <h:outputText value="SMS Date" />
                                        </f:facet>
                                         <h:outputText value="#{sms.smsdate}" /> 
                                    </h:column>
                                    <h:column>
                                        <f:facet name="header">
                                            <h:outputText value="Del Date" />
                                        </f:facet>
                                         <h:outputText value="#{sms.dndate}" /> 
                                    </h:column>
                                    <h:column>
</h:dataTable>So how to refresh the dataTable? Unless I do a rebind where I have one dataTable is for current day and another one is for search?
Thanks.

Answer 1

adrianclw wrote:
Yup. I would like to re-render my dataTable after i clicked Search button. So the dataTable will display my search result.
So existing dataTable unable to do it? Currently I'm using Apache Tomahawk for my dataTable.
If you want to re-render the datatable without submitting the page, you will have to use Ajax. If you can allow submitting of page, then just change(refresh) the list in the backing bean that you have value-bound to the h:datatable in jsp.
Another thing, I'm not sure i'm doing it correct or not. Now my dataTable is bind with the getCurrentDay function. So can i re-render it? Will it re-render and getting the same output since it already tied with current day function.
See the above comment.