"nickarls" wrote : Well, you could have two separate components: | | * selectOneMenu rendered when list.count < n | | * separate modal window with datatable, paginator, search and filtering | | I think you should be able to get both options working with a list of entities in the model. Then there is the question on how you should trigger the modal window. A separate button? An empty selectOneMenu with some sort of "on open trigger"? I would have a little icon next to the input field which will trigger the popup with the person-selection table. My main concern is not how to trigger the popup etc, it is how do I set the selected person directly to the entity (pass it to the project.setManager(Person p) method! What I tried is (this is the person-select table in the popup): <tr:table styleClass="trTableDiv" id="personss" | rows="10" columnClasses="col" | value="#{allPersons}" var="pers"> | <tr:column> | <f:facet name="header">Name</f:facet> | <h:outputText | value="#{pers.vorname} #{pers.nachname}" /> | </tr:column> | <tr:column> | <f:facet name="header">select</f:facet> | <a:commandLink reRender="panelProjekt" action="#{projekt.setManager(pers)}" value="set"> | <s:conversationId /> | </a:commandLink> | </tr:column> | </tr:table> The problems here are the following: - only the last person in the table is set to the project if I click a link. Why?? - the project record is immediately updated in the DB after I click the link (maybe here I could use flushMode="manual"?) - this only works for the first click on the commandLink Any help would be appreciated. Alexander View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122508#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...