JSF Navigation Rules and Ajax Submit do not cooperate

[lucab]

I have a form with an a4j:commanLink. This link is connected with an action, let's call it 'ForwardPage_Action'.

ForwardPage Action is mapped in faces-config like this
[note: simplified xml syntax]

<nav-rule>
 <from>/form_page.xhtml</from>
 <case>
 <outcome>ForwardPage_Action</outcome>
 <goto>/forwarded_page.xhtml</goto>
 </case>
</nav-rule>

when the 'forwarded_page' is loaded i can read all the info as expected but the page is actually broken. None of the richfaces features will work (tooltips,panelMenu,tabs,ecc...)
Perhaps someone can help me to fix the problem. At the moment i can't figure out why an a4j:commanLink + JSF forward should break ajax features.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

what is your RF version?

why did you prefered to use ajax controls for navigation action? If you really need this - add

<redirect/>

tag to your case.

[lucab]

My RF version is 3.2.0 GA.
yes, i could use .
the problem is that we don't want to put the bean in session scope (and a redirect will reset our bean). so we need a forward. probably we should look for another way to do this. Could shale dialog (or shale view controller with its prerender()) be of help?

Perhaps we are trying to solve our problem the wrong way. our intent is to use the commandLink to preload data into the bean so that when we forward to the next page the bean is ready to be displayed.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I could not to use redirect but it seems that in this case you should use standard h: control