[SalesForce] Passing Select Option value

I have the following drop down, and I want to send the value of the selected file to my controller .. so if the user selects parent account1 my controller should get that value or if they select parent account2 same thing
VF

 <label>Select the Region</label>
                </td>
                <td class="data2Col" style="border-bottom:0px;">
                    <select id="sandler" class="sandler" value="{!regionAccount}">
            <option value=""></option>
            <option value='ParentAccount1'>asdf--zz</option>
            <option value='ParentAccount2'>ggggg</option>

        </select>
        </td>

controller

// Recieve the Region Value from Visual Force Page.. 
   public String regionAccount{get;set;}
    public Account regionAccountId{get;set;}
// if regional is not empty 
if (regionAccount != Null ){


      // get the value of region and find the accountId
        regionAccountId = [select Id  from Account where Name = : regionAccount];
        account.ParentId =regionAccountId.Id;


        }
        else{
        for (Contact parents : parentAccount)
        {
            System.debug('Now I get to here part 2');
            account.ParentId = parents.AccountId;
        }
    }

Best Answer

As these are html tags so you can't directly pass the value in controller so I suggest you to first get this in javascript

<script>
function passValue()
{
     var e = document.getElementById("sandler");
     var strUser = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;
     actfun(strUser);
}
</script>

then using actionfunction pass this in controller.

<apex:actionfunction name="actfun" action="{!contmethod}" rerender="frm"
       <apex:param name="param" value="" assignTo="{!contVar}" />
</apex:actionfunction>

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You'll need to provide a different value parameter for each selectlist, otherwise they will all write into the same variable and the last to do it will become the value for all of them.

This is a great use case for a wrapper class, as that way you colocate the selected value with the rest of the information being presented in the datatable. For example, if you have a list of account sobjects, you'd have a wrapper class that holds the account and the selected value:

public class AccWrap
{
   public Account acc {get; set;}
   public String selVal {get; set;}

   public AccWrap(Account acc)
   {
      this.acc=acc;
   }
}

Then you'd build a list of these for display:

public List<AccWrap> wrappers {get; set;}

public MyController()
{
   wrappers=new List<AccWrap>();
   List<Account> accs=[select id, Name from Account limit 10];
   for (Account acc : accs)
   {
      AccWrap wrap=new AccWrap(acc);
      wrappers.add(wrap);
   }
}

Then in the page, you'd use this collection to back the pageblocktable:

<apex:pageBlockTable value="{!wrappers}" var="wrap">
   <apex:column value="{!wrap.Name}"/>
   <apex:column headerValue="Choose">
      <apex:selectList value="{!wrap.selVal}"/>
         <apex:selectOptions value="{!myOptions}"/>
      </apex:selectList>
   </apex:column>

With regard to the onchange, you'd need to add an actionsupport to the selectlist to execute an action method when the onchange event happens. This would traverse the list of wrappers and populate any additional fields based on the value of 'selVal'.

[SalesForce] Visualforce SelectList value not setting on Rerender

No need to set the userType as a param on the action function....since the action function and the select list is within the same form section, userType will automatically get set. Also, you can set actionFunction's action="{!null}". It wants an action in there, but all we're really saying is "do the post and rerender the screen". Also note that field validation will occur before the sets...so if you had an input field set to required within the same form tags, your process would fail with no feedback (unless you had a pageMessages tag within the rerendered section)

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