yasser zairi [http://community.jboss.org/people/yasser_z] created the discussion "how to get values from selectOneMenu" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/617588#617588 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi every one, this thread may be irrelevent to this forum but since i'm using jboss i prefere to post it here. the issu is that i'm populate a selectOneMenu dynamically using a map, and i want to get the value selected by the User, but i get only its key. here is the selectOneMenu code : ___________________________________ <h:selectOneMenu id="select_cat" value="#{valeursMBean.selectedItem1}" >          <f:selectItem itemLabel="--categorie"/>          <f:selectItems value="#{valeursMBean.categories}"/> </h:selectOneMenu> ___________________________________ here is the bean code related to it : ... private String selectedItem1;     @PostConstruct     public void init(){          valeurefList = valeurefService.find();          categories.clear();          codeisins.clear();          denominations.clear();          etats.clear();          datesecheance.clear();          for (ValeurRef m : valeurefList) {              categories.put(m.getCategorie(),m.getIdValeurRef());          }          for (ValeurRef m : valeurefList) {              codeisins.put(m.getCodeIsin(),m.getIdValeurRef());          }          for (ValeurRef m : valeurefList) {              denominations.put(m.getDenomination(),m.getIdValeurRef());          }          for (ValeurRef m : valeurefList) {              etats.put(m.getEtat(),m.getIdValeurRef());          }          for (ValeurRef m : valeurefList) {              datesecheance.put(m.getDateEcheance().toString(),m.getIdValeurRef());          }     }     public void takeSelection(){         System.out.println("value of "+selectedItem1+" is "+categories.get(selectedItem1));     } ... and it prints ( value of 3 is null ) when i select an element in my selectOneMenu. can anyone tell me what is the best way to do that ? Regards . -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/617588#617588] Start a new discussion in JBoss Tools at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]