Hi I am using p:layout component.
p:layout style="min-width:400px;min-height:200px;" id="layout">  
    <p:layoutUnit position="west" resizable="true" size="100" minSize="40" maxSize="200">  
        <p:panel id="pnl" header="Help" toggleable="true"  toggleSpeed="500" 
        closeSpeed="500" widgetVar="panel" style="width:265px" rendered="#{backBean.renderPanel}">  
</p:panel>
<p:dataGrid var="sample" value="#{backBean.list}"
                            columns="1" style="margin-left: -5px;width: 275px; border:none;"
                            rows="7" >
                            //displaying some values from list here
</p:dataGrid>
        <p:poll interval="3"   
            listener="#{backBean.check}" update="pnl" />  
    </p:layoutUnit>  
    <p:layoutUnit position="center">  
        Center  
    </p:layoutUnit> 
Now I want to render panel as shown above when list is empty,if its empty then panel will not get rendered. So I as we know we have p:poll component which automaticallly updates any particular panel or any else component after specified interval. So I have applied poll listener and checking list size in this way.
public void check(){
    if(list.size>0){
    renderPanel=false;
    }
    else{
    renderPanel=true;
    }
    }
which is working fine . I am getting value of renderPanel flag as true when list is empty , but still my panel is not rendering.
why is it so? what I am missing?
My backing bean code for renderPanel flag :
@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped
    class BackBean implements Serializable{
    private  boolean renderPanel=false;
        public boolean isRenderPanel() {
        return renderPanel;
    }
    public void setRenderPanel(boolean renderPanel) {
        this.renderPanel = renderPanel;
    }
    }
How should I render my panel ?