<af:navigationPane>

af:navigationPane navigationPane navigation pane

UIComponent class: oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.nav.RichNavigationPane
Component type: oracle.adf.RichNavigationPane

Naming container: Yes. When referring to children of this component ("partialTriggers", findComponent(), etc.), you must prefix the child's ID with this component's ID and a colon (':')

The navigationPane component creates a series of navigation items representing one level in a navigation hierarchy. These items may either be explicitly added as children using the commandNavigationItem component or a model of type org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.MenuModel may be bound to the navigationPane component. If a MenuModel is bound, a level along the focus path, or the next level down, will be rendered. A node that is on the focus path will be rendered as "selected".

Note: The 'level' attribute is temporary. It is used to indicate the level along the focusPath to render. It will likely be replaced with an el expression in a future release.

The MenuModel implementation that are supported out-of-the-box, namely org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.ProcessMenuModel and org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.XmlMenuModel, know how to go from the current viewId to the focusRowKey. Notice that the MenuModel has no special knowledge of page navigation and places no requirements on the nodes that go into the tree. The nodes in the tree are stamped out using the 'nodeStamp' facet, which should contain a commandNavigationItem component. This allows the default actionListener mechanism to be used for page navigation.

NavigationPane with hint='buttons' and hint='bar' look very similar. They have different separators. Additionally, here are the differences:

The navigationPane component does not render on a printable page (<af:showPrintablePageBehavior>).

Geometry Management

Code Example(s)

<af:navigationPane var="node" value="#{xmlMenuModel}">
  <f:facet name="nodeStamp">
    <af:commandNavigationItem text="#{node.label}"
                              action="#{node.doAction}"
                              destination="#{node.destination}"/>
  </f:facet>
</af:navigationPane>

Events

Type Phases Description
org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.event.AttributeChangeEvent Invoke Application,
Apply Request Values		 Event delivered to describe an attribute change. Attribute change events are not delivered for any programmatic change to a property. They are only delivered when a renderer changes a property without the application's specific request. An example of an attribute change events might include the width of a column that supported client-side resizing.

Supported Facets

Name Description
nodeStamp the component to use to stamp each element in the navigation. A CommandNavigationItem is expected.

Attributes

Name Type Supports EL? Description
attributeChangeListener javax.el.MethodExpression Only EL a method reference to an attribute change listener. Attribute change events are not delivered for any programmatic change to a property. They are only delivered when a renderer changes a property without the application's specific request. An example of an attribute change events might include the width of a column that supported client-side resizing.
binding oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.nav.RichNavigationPane Only EL an EL reference that will store the component instance on a bean. This can be used to give programmatic access to a component from a backing bean, or to move creation of the component to a backing bean.
clientComponent boolean Yes whether a client-side component will be generated. A component may be generated whether or not this flag is set, but if client Javascript requires the component object, this must be set to true to guarantee the component's presence. Client component objects that are generated today by default may not be present in the future; setting this flag is the only way to guarantee a component's presence, and clients cannot rely on implicit behavior. However, there is a performance cost to setting this flag, so clients should avoid turning on client components unless absolutely necessary.
customizationId String Yes This attribute is deprecated. The 'id' attribute should be used when applying persistent customizations. This attribute will be removed in the next release.
disabled boolean Yes whether the component is disabled.
hint String Yes Valid Values: tabs, bar, buttons, choice, list

how the navigational items are displayed. Options are:
  • bar - display items separated by a bar
  • buttons - display items with a vertical separator between them
  • choice - display items in a popup list when icon is clicked
  • list - display items in a bulleted list
  • tabs - display each item in a tab
id String No the identifier for the component. The identifier must follow a subset of the syntax allowed in HTML:
  • Must not be a zero-length String.
  • First character must be an ASCII letter (A-Za-z) or an underscore ('_').
  • Subsequent characters must be an ASCII letter or digit (A-Za-z0-9), an underscore ('_'), or a dash ('-').
inlineStyle String Yes the CSS styles to use for this component. This is intended for basic style changes. The inlineStyle is a set of CSS styles that are applied to the root DOM element of the component. If the inlineStyle's CSS properties do not affect the DOM element you want affected, then you will have to create a skin and use the skinning keys which are meant to target particular DOM elements, like ::label or ::icon-style.
level int Yes the level, based on a 0 based index, in the menuModel to render based on the focusPath of the menuModel.
partialTriggers String[] Yes the IDs of the components that should trigger a partial update. This component will listen on the trigger components. If one of the trigger components receives an event that will cause it to update in some way, this component will request to be updated too. Identifiers are relative to the source component (this component), and must account for NamingContainers. If your component is already inside of a naming container, you can use a single colon to start the search from the root of the page, or multiple colons to move up through the NamingContainers - "::" will pop out of the component's naming container (or itself if the component is a naming container) and begin the search from there, ":::" will pop out of two naming containers (including itself if the component is a naming container) and begin the search from there, etc.
rendered boolean Yes whether the component is rendered. When set to false, no output will be delivered for this component (the component will not in any way be rendered, and cannot be made visible on the client). If you want to change a component's rendered attribute from false to true using PPR, set the partialTrigger attribute of its parent component so the parent refreshes and in turn will render this component.
shortDesc String Yes the short description of the component. This text is commonly used by user agents to display tooltip help text, in which case the behavior for the tooltip is controlled by the user agent, e.g. Firefox 2 truncates long tooltips. For form components, the shortDesc is displayed in a note window. For components that support the helpTopicId attribute it is recommended that helpTopicId is used as it is more flexible and is more accessibility-compliant.
styleClass String Yes a CSS style class to use for this component. The style class can be defined in your jspx page or in a skinning CSS file, for example, or you can use one of our public style classes, like 'AFInstructionText'.
title String Yes the text that describes the items. (This attribute is only applicable if the rendering hint supports it, e.g. "choice".)
unsecure java.util.Set Yes A whitespace separated list of attributes whose values ordinarily can be set only on the server, but need to be settable on the client. Currently, this is supported only for the "disabled" attribute.
value Object Yes the hierarchy of navigation data - must be of type org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.MenuModel
var String No Name of the EL variable used to reference each element of this collection. Once this component has completed rendering, this variable is removed (or reverted back to its previous value).
varStatus String No Name of the EL variable used to reference the varStatus information. Once this component has completed rendering, this variable is removed (or reverted back to its previous value). The VarStatus provides contextual information about the state of the component to EL expressions. For components that iterate, varStatus also provides loop counter information. Please see the this component's documentation for the specific properties on the varStatus. The common properties on varStatus include:
  • "model" - returns the CollectionModel for this component
  • "index" - returns the zero based row index
visible boolean Yes the visibility of the component. If it is "false", the component will be hidden on the client. Unlike "rendered", this does not affect the lifecycle on the server - the component may have its bindings executed, etc. - and the visibility of the component can be toggled on and off on the client, or toggled with PPR. When "rendered" is false, the component will not in any way be rendered, and cannot be made visible on the client. In most cases, use the "rendered" property instead of the "visible" property.
Not supported on the following renderkits: org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.core