Overview of the Features required by RichFaces' users

This document is created basing on the forum post about features request

Feel free to add your +1 or/and add a new item to this wiki article directly. (Do not add +5 :-), be correct!)
note: the version might set by RichFaces team member only according to the actual plans. Do not edit it by yourself.

New Components

Name	Votes	Version	Notes
Sortable Header	+43	3.2.0 done	Component that adds sortable to the rich:dataTable http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-279
fileUpload with progress bar	+40	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-238
Inplace editor	+27	3.2.0 done	Example: http://inplacericheditor.box.re/demos or, more likely http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.InPlaceEditor or http://www.fckeditor.net/ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1224
Editable Combo box (dd box + suggestion)	+25	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-904
xHTML Editor	+30		rich editor with text formating features http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=136467
dockPanel	+19		with collapsible panel on it. Similar to portal dash Board. similarTo
Layout components	+34		including split pane http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-467/ Don't know if it is the same: The possibility to slidly change the size of different page areas per drag & drop. See http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/layout/complex.html for an example.
Confirmation Dialog	+21
Breadcrumbs	+18
ListShuttle?	+13	3.1.3 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-337
Client-side Validation Components	+18
treeTable	+19
Context Menu	+8	3.1.3 done
Range Selector (Date for example)	+8
Ordering List(aka selectOrderShuttle)	+3	3.1.3 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1182
Progress Bar (not only file Upload)	+7	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1686
Editable graphics, specially charts (bar charts, pie charts, Gantt?...)	+11
Time Picker	+5		http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114789#4114789
Carousel	+1
Field Set	+1
Resizable Text Box	+3
Interactive Charts, SVG?	+4
modal panel light version	+2
Captcha	+5		http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1292
GWT-Voices equivalent??	+4		request
Color Chooser	+4		http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/adffaces/11/doc/adf-richclient-api/tagdoc/af_chooseColor.html
Appearance component	+1		http://demos.devexpress.com/ASPxperienceDemos/TitleIndex/Appearance.aspx
Editable list	+4		Example(Woodstock): http://webdev2.sun.com/example/faces/editablelist/editableList.jsp
PanelGrid?	+2		http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2/docs/tlddocs/h/panelGrid.html
In place ImageEdit?	+3		This control should allow creation and editing including cropping and resizing of images while browsing. It should be a bit like the Inplace Editor - http://inplacericheditor.box.re/demos - but for images.
Table Selection	+3		Parent component to any dataTable which allows to use selection. Must provide three modes of selection (none\single\multi). Must be a possibility to know the last selected row (focused). Simple realization: two hidden input fields and jQuery lib to select rows and update input fields.
Export-to-PDF	+2		This feature should allow any screen and/or table to be exported to PDF. This can be done using iText libraries.

Improvements for Components and Framework in General

Name	Votes	Version	Notes
Component contribution, CDK Doc	+29
Performance	+33
dataTable Filtering	+25	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1736
Keyboard navigation (mouseless)	+18
calendar. show, select time, not only date	+11	3.1.3 done	remark1 http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1192
calendar. show, select seconds!	+3		http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=132537
suggestionBox. enables to select a suggested *object* instead of a suggested String.	+10	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1774 See http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122869#4122869 for ajax solution
calendar. select year by drop down box and/or manual input	+9	3.2.0	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1719
dataTable dynamic columns	+12	3.2.0 done	http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1197
Dev Documentation	+9
Wiki (cookbook)	+6
Predefined effects for existing components	+5
Portal Support	+5		Now, the separated project. See
Advanced tutorials	+14
Page Scope Support	+1		Not clear, what it is
Debugging facility	+3
Enter key support on forms	+7		http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-1657
Clickable error messages	+3		http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122450#4122450
more possibilities for js interaction, maybe give more flexibility to <a4j:jsScript..>	+2
Trinidad skinning	+1
Add script.aculo.us like features (ghosting, cursor position/style) to DnD?	+1
Use of Ext js, maybe some components?	+4		http://extjs.com/ http://gwt-ext.com/demo/ http://qlogic.ma/lilya/ http://www.exttld.com/
Asymmetric Shuttle List	+3		Columns in the two lists do not have to be the same
New skins	+2		Please post examples of amazing skins here!
More powerfull and easy to use skinability	+2		http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=131633 http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=130331
Stable Safari Support	+1

New Features for existing Components

• dataTable
• HOWTO: How to show a row of a dataTable on a modal panel (+11)
• HOWTO: How to highlight rows in a dataTable when the mouse is over (+9)
• HOWTO: How to select one row of a dataTable by clicking on it, even if clicked in an inputText of this row. (+6)
• Possibly similar to Trinidad's rowSelection attribute (single, multiple, none) to render a radio button or check box
• better renderkits/skins that support customizable corners on components like panels, tabs etc. (CSS3 will have the ability to define border-images for divs but until then, RichFaces needs to produce a markup that allows richer skinning. Currently, a tab is rendered as a single div)
• make SubTables? collapsible (+1)

• Calendar

• Further Localisation support - for example the "today" string in the bottom of the calendar (+4)
• Option to turn off display of week number (+3)
• The next(> / >>) and previous(< / <<) controls in the header should have a fix position so that clicking through years / months is easier. Currently the controls are changing their position depending on how big the month name is, so u have to refocus every time with mouse (+4)

• Messages

• Addition of "for" attribute to display messages only owned by the given component, to get the ability of using rich:messages more than once in same view on different places(+1)

• Suggestion Box
• provides JS API to make suggestion calls from event handlers(+2)
• add autopositioning feature(+1)
• Able to set headers so that you can have titles on each columns(+1)

• TabPanel?
• Switching by JavaScript? API call(+5)
• Different positions(+1)
• scrolling tabs if there is no enough place for them (+3) proto
• Customizable tab buttons(+1)

• PanelBar?
• Switching by javascript API call(+2)

• Push
• HowTo? Tutorial. (+3)

• ListShuttle?
• Copy mode
• multiple or just single selection for copy and remove

• RichFaces tree
• Display a tree vertically.(+2)http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120081#4120081

• Scrollable Data Table
• SubTable? - E.g. A scrollable data table that displays all countries and for every country their main cities

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  The page last changed on Wed Jul 02 10:40:47 EDT 2008 by jbossraoullevi