title: Primefaces selectManyMenu-> loading default values
body: <p>im using jsf 2.2 majorra and primefaces 5.1 to build a webapp</p>
  
  <p>i know this has probably been answered before, but i dont find my error... i took examples from the primefaces showcase and tried some stuff suggested by the internet, but it doesnt want to work</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/template/master.xhtml"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
      xmlns:pe="http://primefaces.org/ui/extensions"
      xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"&gt;
  
      &lt;ui:define name="content"&gt;
  
          &lt;p:selectManyMenu id="userList"
              value="#{userAdministrationController.selectedUsers}" var="t"
              filter="true" filterMatchMode="contains" showCheckbox="true"&gt;
              &lt;f:selectItems value="#{userAdministrationController.selectItemList}"
                  var="user" itemLabel="#{user.fullName}" itemValue="#{user}" /&gt;
              &lt;p:column&gt;
                  &lt;h:outputText value="#{t}" /&gt;
              &lt;/p:column&gt;
          &lt;/p:selectManyMenu&gt;
          &lt;p:separator /&gt;
          &lt;p:commandButton value="Submit" oncomplete="PF('dlg').show()"
              icon="ui-icon-check" /&gt;
      &lt;/ui:define&gt;
  &lt;/ui:composition&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>im trying to load this list so that some users are already selected when visiting the page, like a default value</p>
  
  <p>all users show as desired, but no default values are loaded to the checkboxes</p>
  
  <p>thanks in advance</p>