Properties for Faces Client Components

Each component has a number of attributes you can set in the component's Properties view. Some attributes have the same name but a different usage in different components. The following table lists all Faces Client properties and the components that use them.
Note: Some Faces Client Components and Client Data have been deprecated and are not recommended for use.
The following have been deprecated and are not recommended for use:
  • Client Data and its associated tooling (such as the Client Data view)
  • Faces Client Components
    • <odc:dataGrid> (Data Grid)
    • <odc:webService> (Web Service)
    • <odc:clientData>
    • <odc:clientBinder>
Attribute In Component Description
Alias/wsAlias Web Service Sets a user friendly name for the Web Service. This value can be any name. For example, StockService.
Alignment/selectionColAlignment Data Grid Sets data alignment in a column. Use the drop-down list to select one of the following values: Left, Right, Center.
Allow multiple selection/multiSelection Data Grid Check this box to allow the user to select multiple columns.
Note: You must enable Show selection column before multiple choice is available.
Attribute name Web Service Indicates the Attribute Name to be used as the input parameter or the Attribute Name that will be updated by the response from the Web Service.
Bind to/binding Data Grid, Chart, Tree, Web Service For the input, this points to data in the model that is used as input to the Web Service operation. For the output, this is the data in the model that is updated as the result of the Web Service.
Chart components title/title Chart Sets the title you want to display on the chart. Long titles may cause layout errors.
Class name/styleClass Tree The name of the class of objects being displayed in a particular node in the tree. Informational only. You cannot edit this in the Properties view.
Classes/styleClass Data Grid, Chart Specifies the style class for the Data Grid, Chart, or Data Tree.
Close icon Tree Replaces the default icon for a collapsed node.
Column content is editable Data Grid Specifies if the cells in a data grid column can be edited.
Date Style Data Grid, Chart Sets the date format to be used.
Display Charts/firstChart Chart Indicates which type of chart can be displayed; Pie, Bar, Line.
Display content as a hyperlink Data Grid Indicates if the data in the column is underlined.
Display second y axis/splitYAxis Chart Indicates whether a second y axis is to be displayed on the right in cases where there are exactly two series.
Display y values/showLegend Chart Indicates whether the y values are to be displayed next to the chart objects, for example, pie sections, bars, points.
Enable node selection/enableSelect Tree Indicates if a check box appears next to the tree node.
Initial Display/bar, line, or pie Chart Indicates which chart will be displayed first when the chart is displayed.
Format Data Grid, Chart Specifies the kind of formatting to be applied to the data: String, Date/Time, Number, or Mask.
Group Operation Chart The type of group operation to be performed on the data: sum, average (avg), count, minimum (min), maximum (max), first, last.
Height/height Tree, Chart Specifies the height of the component in pixels or percent. If a tree is larger than the height, a scroll bar is displayed.
Height/pageSize Data Grid Indicates how many rows of data is displayed on the page.
Id/id Data Grid, Tree, Chart, Web Service Assigns an ID to the component or subcomponent. This value must be unique on the JSP page.
Label/selectionColName Data Grid Displays and sets the column header name.
Label value (see Attribute Name) Tree The label to be displayed on a particular type of node in the tree. If the node has any properties, the name can be selected from the drop-down menu. If the node has no properties, you can enter text for the label.
Open icon/systemIconStyle Tree Replaces the default icon for an expanded node.
Operation/webServiceOperation Web Service Sets the name of the Web Service method that you want to call from the specified Web Service.
Pattern Data Grid, Chart Specifies the pattern to be used to format Date/Time and Number when the Type of formatting is Custom.
rendered All Can be set to true or false. True will render the component to the browser at runtime; false will not render it.
Request Element Name Web Service Maps a primitive attribute in the client model to a primitive attribute in the Web Service input schema.
Response Element Name Web Service Maps a primitive attribute in the Web Service output schema to a primitive attribute in the client model.
Rows can be added/deleted Data Grid Select this check box to allow rows to be added to or deleted from the Data Grid.
Row filter/rowFilter Data Grid Identifies an expression to filter (hide) data. For example, to show all prices greater than 50, the expression is: this.getPrice() > 50.
Show header bar Data Grid Displays the navigation bar in the header.
Show footer bar Data Grid Displays the navigation bar in the footer.
Series Name Chart Sets the name that appears on the chart for each series of data. Type in a new name to change the default.
Show horizontal grid lines/showHGridlinesLine Chart Indicates if horizontal grid lines are displayed on the background for Bar and Line graphs.
Show Legend/showLegend Chart Select this to display a legend next to the chart area. When a single series is being displayed, the legend maps colors to data points. When all the series are being displayed together, the legend maps colors to series names.
Show root node/rootVisibleFlag Tree Select to display the root node.
Show row number/showRowIndex Data Grid Indicates if a row number will be displayed for a data grid.
Show selection column/showSelectionColumn Data Grid Specifies if a row selection column is displayed for a data grid.
Show vertical grid lines/showVGridlinesLine Chart Indicates if vertical grid lines are displayed on the background for Bar and Line graphs.
Tick marks/showyaxisDivisions Chart Indicates the number of horizontal divisions. Overuse of tick marks on a chart could cause layout errors.
Time Style Data Grid, Chart Sets the format used for a time string.
Type Data Grid Indicates the data format: Number, Date/Time, String, Mask
Type Data Grid, Chart Sets the type of selected format. For example, decimal, currency, percent, or custom for Number format. Date only, Date and time for Date/Time format, etc.
Value Data Grid, Tree, Chart The Expression Language expression to bind to the client-side data.
Y Axis Title/yaxisTitle Chart Sets the title to display on the y axis. Long titles may cause layout errors.
Width/width/showColWidth Data Grid, Chart, Tree The width of the component or sub component. It may be specified in pixels or percentage.
WSDL URL/wsdlURL Web Service Specifies the WSDL document URL for the Web Service definition.
X-axis title/xaxisTitle Chart Sets the title to display on the x axis. Long titles may cause layout errors.
Related tasks
Configuring client data
Related reference
Faces Client components
Support for Faces components within the Faces Client framework
Supported JavaBean characters and data types

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