Quick question regarding wizard example at demo site

[jfaath]

I'm trying to employ a wizard based on the example at the live demo site:

http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/include.jsf?c=include

It works nicely, except for a little quirk that's bugging me. If you enter data on the first screen, hit "next" and enter data on the second screen. But then hit "previous". The data is indeed still on the first screen. But, if you hit "next" to go to the second screen again, the data you entered is gone.

I've determined the only way data is "stored" on a page is through the next button.

Is this fixable or just the way the AJAX system works? I'm pretty new to all this stuff.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

it's fixable through keepalive or session scope.

[jfaath]

The demo uses keepAlive and the issue occurs as I described it.

I'm using Seam with conversation-scoped objects and the problem still occurs.

The problem seems to be that only hitting "next" and going to a new page seems to save the previous page. Perhaps this is some sort of caching issue?

[jfaath]

I figured out the issue. The "previous" button has the "immediate" property set to "true" which obviously skips processing the form and therefore doesn't save the values.

Not sure if this was intended with this example, but as stated in the initial post, it causes the somewhat user-unfriendly behavior.