Unable to edit values in form

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework UI
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Hi all,
first of all, this issue I am facing is rather particular since I am using Vaadin 6.8.15 and am experiencing the behavior in a Liferay 6.0.6.

I am using Vaadin to quickly create a demo of an application that’s supposed to be running as a portlet in a Liferay 6.0.6 (CE) with the constraint of using Vaadin 6.8.15.
When double clicking on the table the underlying BeanItem is passed to a form that shows the fields.
I am extending the form since I need to override the createField method because some fields have to render as combos some other as TextArea.
What is happening is the following :

  • if the TextArea already contains data then is editable otherwise it is not
  • all combo items render as if they were read-only, not matter what I pass the .setReadOnly method
  • if, instead of a combo box, I use a NativeList then the component is rendered correctly but is I cannot edit the data no matter what value is inside the component
  • the DateField doesn’t render correctly

I have already tried the following, without success:

  2. change the liferay theme of the page
  3. enabled the form (setEnable(true))
  4. navigated the fields in the form and manually set bot setEnable(true) and setReadOnly(false)

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks
Marco