Access page outside of pageflow

[cool_raj]

I have JSF application that contains many wizards. We have rolled our own workflow management framework that manages the state from
page to page.

I have read the Seam documentation and it appears to meet most of
our requirements and is cleaner and more flexible than our homegrown framework.

One of our requirements is to popup a javascript alert when the user navigates out of the defined pageflow and destroy the conversation.
Is this possible with Seam?

Raj

[gavin.king]

Define "navigates". Clicking a link? backbutton? what?

[cool_raj]

We have a menubar at the top of our pages. So in a multi step
wizard the user could have completed several pages and then
they click on a menu item that would cause them to go to a page
that is not a part of the defined workflow.

Our requirement is to ask the user(with javascript alert) if they really want to do this, if they say no we take them back to the last completed page in their workflow. In effect, ensuring that there is only one "conversation" at any given time.

[gavin.king]

Yeah, I think that's straighforward to implement.

Seems like the opposite of what the user really wants though ... have you demonstrated Seam workspace management to the users, and asked them if maybe they would prefer that?

[cool_raj]

I agree that multiple conversations might be a good route to go, however I like to have all my bases covered.

Is there an extension point in the Seam framework where I could insert this behaviour?

[gavin.king]

You would basically just code it into javascript in your UI. No special integration with Seam would be needed.