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DynaForm
This example demonstrates how to build a simple dynamic form. Main steps:

  • Create model instance: DynaFormModel model = new DynaFormModel();
  • Add row to regular grid: DynaFormRow row = model.createRegularRow();
  • Add label: DynaFormLabel label = row.addLabel(value, colspan, rowspan);
  • Add editable control: DynaFormControl control = row.addControl(data, type, colspan, rowspan);
  • Set relationship between label and control (optional): label.setForControl(control);
Repeat four last steps as many times as needed. The main component tag is pe:dynaForm. Child tag pe:dynaFormControl matches created in Java controls by type attribute. This is usually a "one to many" relation.

You also see that one of important features is a buil-in support for labels. DynaForm renders labels automatically - no need to write p:outputLabel. But of course h:outputText can be used as a quite normal tag inside pe:dynaFormControl with a proper type as well.
Source

<h:panelGroup id="dynaFormGroup">
    <p:messages id="messages" showSummary="true"/>

    <pe:dynaForm id="dynaForm" value="#{dynaFormController.model}" var="data" columnClasses="label-container, field-container">
        <pe:dynaFormControl type="input" for="txt">
            <p:inputText id="txt" value="#{data.value}" required="#{data.required}"/>
        </pe:dynaFormControl>
        <pe:dynaFormControl type="calendar" for="cal" styleClass="calendar">
            <p:calendar id="cal" value="#{data.value}" required="#{data.required}" showOn="button"/>
        </pe:dynaFormControl>
        <pe:dynaFormControl type="select" for="sel">
            <p:selectOneMenu id="sel" value="#{data.value}" required="#{data.required}">
                <f:selectItems value="#{dynaFormController.languages}"/>
            </p:selectOneMenu>
        </pe:dynaFormControl>
        <pe:dynaFormControl type="textarea" for="tarea">
            <p:inputTextarea id="tarea" value="#{data.value}" required="#{data.required}" autoResize="false"/>
        </pe:dynaFormControl>
        <pe:dynaFormControl type="rating" for="rat">
            <p:rating id="rat" value="#{data.value}" required="#{data.required}"/>
        </pe:dynaFormControl>

        <f:facet name="buttonBar">
            <p:commandButton value="Submit" action="#{dynaFormController.submitForm}"
                             process="dynaForm" update=":mainForm:dynaFormGroup :mainForm:inputValues"
                             oncomplete="handleComplete(xhr, status, args)"/>
            <p:commandButton type="reset" value="Reset" style="margin-left: 5px;"/>
        </f:facet>
    </pe:dynaForm>
</h:panelGroup>

<p:dialog header="Input values" widgetVar="inputValuesWidget">
    <p:dataList id="inputValues" value="#{dynaFormController.bookProperties}" var="bookProperty"
                style="margin:10px;">
        <h:outputText value="#{bookProperty.name}: #{bookProperty.formattedValue}"
                      style="margin-right: 10px;"/>
    </p:dataList>
</p:dialog>

<h:outputScript id="dynaFormScript" target="body">
/* <![CDATA[ */
    function handleComplete(xhr, status, args) {
        if(args && args.isValid) {
            PF('inputValuesWidget').show();
        } else {
            PF('inputValuesWidget').hide();
        }
    }
/* ]]> */
</h:outputScript>

<h:outputStylesheet id="dynaFormCSS">
    /* note: trick with colspan is needed for IE8 */
    .pe-dynaform-cell input,
    .pe-dynaform-cell textarea,
    .pe-dynaform-cell[colspan="1"] input,
    .pe-dynaform-cell[colspan="1"] textarea {
        width: 150px;
    }

    /* note: trick with colspan is needed for IE8 */
    .pe-dynaform-cell.calendar input,
    .pe-dynaform-cell[colspan="1"].calendar input {
        width: 120px;
    }

    .pe-dynaform-cell .ui-selectonemenu {
        width: 134px;
    }
    
    .label-container {
        font-weight: bold;
    }
    
    .field-container input {
        text-transform: uppercase;
    }
</h:outputStylesheet>
            
Components and more
Documentation
Attributes (move mouse over the names to see data types)
Name Description
id Unique identifier of the component in a naming container.
rendered Boolean value to specify the rendering of the component, when set to false component will not be rendered.
binding An EL expression referring to a server side UIComponent instance in a backing bean.
widgetVar Name of the client side widget.
value Instance of type DynaFormModel representing model of this component.
var Name of the request-scoped variable for the underlaying object for each iteration.
varContainerId Name of the request-scoped variable which contains the prefix of the client Id within pe:dynaFormControl. This property allows to get the whole clientId of a component within pe:dynaFormControl. The whole client Id is sometimes required for JavaScript or RequestContext.update(...).
autoSubmit Flag whether the form has to be submitted automatically after current page has been loaded. Note: the form can be submitted if it contains at least one submit button. Default value is false.
openExtended Flag whether the extended grid has to be shown opened on page load. Default value is false.
buttonBarPosition Button bar position. Possible values are "top" | "bottom" | "both". Default value is "bottom".
style Style of the main container element. Default value is null.
styleClass Style class of the main container element. Default value is null.
columnClasses Comma separated list of label and control style classes. Default value is null.
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