conditon on rendered section always return false

Question

I am trying to view a section based on a condition ... but it seems that the Rendered statement always return false, I'm not sure where I went wrong! but could someone help me?

here is my code

     <!--the buttons block  -->
     <apex:pageBlockButtons >
       <apex:commandButton value="Save" action="{!save}"/>
       <apex:commandButton value="Cancel" action="{!cancel}"/>
     </apex:pageBlockButtons>
     <!--end of buttons block -->  

 <apex:actionRegion >
   <!--Section 1 -->   
   <apex:pageBlockSection title="Basic Information" columns="2">


             <apex:inputField value="{!Client_Session_Record__c.name}"/>

            <!-- the condition -->
             <apex:pageBlockSectionItem >              
                 <apex:outputLabel value="Session Type"/> 
                 <apex:outputPanel > 
                     <apex:inputField value=" {!Client_Session_Record__c.Session_Type__c}">
                          <apex:actionSupport event="onchange"
                                       reRender="thePageBlock"
                                       status="status"/>
                     </apex:inputField>
                     <apex:actionStatus startText="checking..."
                                    id="status"/>
                 </apex:outputPanel> 
             </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
             <!-- end of condition -->
   </apex:pageBlockSection>

<!--Section 1 -->     

 </apex:actionRegion>

 <!--Section 2 -->  
 <apex:outputPanel > 
 <apex:pageBlockSection title="Initial Assessment" id="Section2"
       columns="2"  collapsible="false"
       Rendered="{if(!Client_Session_Record__c.Session_Type__c == 'Initial Assessment',true,false)}"  > 


 </apex:pageBlockSection>
 </apex:outputPanel >    <!--Section 2 -->  
   <!--Section 3 -->  
 <apex:pageBlockSection title="Provision" id="Section3"
       columns="2"  
         > 
 </apex:pageBlockSection>            </apex:pageBlock>  </apex:form> </apex:page>

one more question, do rich text fields not work with Rendered sections ? sometimes i get this error that rich text fields are not supported with Rendered!

Answer 1

I'm guessing you are using a Standard Controller

Heres a simplistic reduced form of your problem, which works okay - here the second pageBlockSection is rendered when the Account Type is 'Prospect'

A few observations, while I see you are trying to reRender the pageBlock, i don't see it as part of your markup. You will need to rerender the containing element to render a component that wasn't originally rendered when the page loaded, in this case your second pageBlockSection.

Also for your rendered expression - it is enough to write rendered = "{!Client_Session_Record__c.Session_Type__c == 'Initial Assessment'}"

<apex:page standardController="Account">

<apex:form>
<apex:pageBlock id="thePageBlock">

<apex:actionRegion>
<apex:pageBlockSection id="pbs1" title="Basic Information" columns="2"> 

    <apex:inputField value=" {!Account.Type}">
           <apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="thePageBlock" status="status"/>
    </apex:inputField>
            <apex:actionStatus startText="checking..." id="status"/>

</apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:actionRegion>

<apex:pageBlockSection title="Initial Assessment" id="Section2"
       columns="2"  collapsible="false" rendered="{!Account.Type=='Prospect'}"> 

<apex:outputField value="{!Account.Name}"/>

</apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
</apex:page>

Answer 2

<apex:pageBlockSection title="Initial Assessment" id="Section2"
   columns="2"  collapsible="false"
   Rendered="{!IF(Client_Session_Record__c.Session_Type__c =='Initial Assessment','true','false')}"> 
</apex:pageBlockSection>

Ensure You have Getter Setter for boolean and once its set its returned on the Page .May be reRender of the Pannel can help.

Answering your Second question there is some hack on this blog .Have a look at this

http://www.laceysnr.com/2012/10/rerender-rich-text-field-hack-city.html