Creating Your JSF Application's Action Buttons

Now that you have the power to edit and delete entries, and also control their permissions, it’s time to expose those capabilities to your users through your JSF views. This will be a similar process to when you created the Add Guestbook and Add Entry buttons. All of your action buttons will display in the master view, so you’ll only edit that particular view. You’ll begin with adding the entry’s action buttons.

Find the following <h:column>...</h:column> tag:

    <h:column>
        <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="#{i18n['name']}" /></f:facet>
        <h:panelGroup rendered="#{entry.viewable}">
            <h:outputText value="#{entry.name}" />
        </h:panelGroup>
    </h:column>

Add the entry entity's action buttons directly below the above
`<h:column>...</h:column>` tag: 

    <h:column>
        <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value=" " /></f:facet>
        <h:commandButton action="#{entryBacking.edit(entry)}" styleClass="btn btn-default" value=" #{i18n['edit']} ">
            <f:ajax render="@all" />
        </h:commandButton>
        <h:commandButton action="#{entryBacking.delete(entry)}" styleClass="btn btn-default" value=" #{i18n['delete']} "
            onclick="if (! confirm('#{i18n['are-you-sure-you-want-to-delete-this']}')) {return false;}" >
            <f:ajax render="@all" />
        </h:commandButton>
        <h:outputLink styleClass="btn btn-default" value="#{entry.permissionsUrl}">
            <h:outputText value=" #{i18n['permissions']} " />
        </h:outputLink>
    </h:column>

All three of your action buttons for entries are now available in your
portlet. They are formatted as an `h:column`. Also notice that each button
calls the `EntryBacking` bean's appropriate action method. 

| **Note:** Currently, the drop-down *Actions* button used in many MVC
| portlets is not supported in Liferay Faces. If your unfamiliar with MVC
| portlets' Actions button, visit the
| [Creating Action Buttons](/docs/6-2/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/t/creating-action-buttons)
| learning path to learn more about its functionality.

Your buttons are now ready for use! Redeploy your Guestbook portlet and give them a shot! The Edit and Delete buttons should function as expected. The Permissions button for your entities should display the Permissions menu, but none of the permissions work yet.

You’ll fix this by adding the remainder of the permissions methods to your entry wrapper class.