PrimeFaces button navigation action

Question

I have a problem with navigating the pages through buttons.

My current xhtml snippet is like that:

<p:layoutUnit position="west" size="200" header="Menü" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true">
            <p:column>
                <p:commandButton type="button" value="New Project" icon="ui-icon-document" action="#{createProject.create()}"/>


                <p:commandButton type="button" value="All Projects" icon="ui-icon-folder-open"/>

                <p:commandButton type="button" value="Edit" icon="ui-icon-pencil"/>

                <p:commandButton type="button" value="Delete" icon="ui-icon-closethick"/>

                <p:separator />
                <p:commandButton type="button" title="Yazdır" icon="ui-icon-print"></p:commandButton>
            </p:column>

        </p:layoutUnit>

Here, when I click on New Project it doesn't navigate to related page.

My beanfile:

  @ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class CreateProject {
    /**
     * Creates a new instance of CreateProject
     */
    public String create() {
        return "newproject.xhtml";
    }
}

How can I navigate user when the button is clicked?

edit: here is my faces-config

    <faces-config
    version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>loginBean</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.LoginBean</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>myProjects</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.MyProjects</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>myCalendar</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.MyCalendar</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
    <navigation-rule>
        <from-view-id>/panel.xhtml</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>create</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>newproject.xhtml</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
  </navigation-rule>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>createProject</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.CreateProject</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
      </managed-bean>
        <managed-bean>
            <managed-bean-name>inPlaceEditor</managed-bean-name>
            <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.InPlaceEditor</managed-bean-class>
            <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
        </managed-bean>
        <managed-bean>
            <managed-bean-name>projectsList</managed-bean-name>
            <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.ProjectsList</managed-bean-class>
            <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
        </managed-bean>
        <navigation-rule>
           <from-view-id>panel.xhtml</from-view-id>
           <navigation-case>
               <from-outcome>newproject</from-outcome>
               <to-view-id>/newproject.xhtml</to-view-id>
           </navigation-case>
        </navigation-rule>
        <managed-bean>
            <managed-bean-name>allProjects</managed-bean-name>
            <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.AllProjects</managed-bean-class>
            <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
        </managed-bean>
        <managed-bean>
            <managed-bean-name>allProjectsList</managed-bean-name>
            <managed-bean-class>com.ibb.source.AllProjectsList</managed-bean-class>
            <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
        </managed-bean>
    </faces-config>

Answer 1

This code:

type="button"

makes commandbutton a simple javascript trigger. If you want to do anything on the server, you must remove type="button". Also, your method defined on action tag, must return a string corresponding to your desired view, and you don`t need yo use an xml for defining navigation. Have a nice day!

Answer 2

By default, commandButton component of the PrimeFaces, uses ajax to send the commands so navigations won't work. Set the ajax property to false:

<p:commandButton ajax="false" value="New Project" icon="ui-icon-document" action="#{createProject.create()}" />

Also make sure that your buttons are inside a form element. Put a <h:form> ... </h:form> around your whole <p:layoutUnit> tag.