How to redirect to the start page in a conversation when the

[gfzhang]

Hi,

Suppose a wizard compose a few pages and these pages are organized in a conversaction.

In an intermediate page of the wizard and at this place the Http session is timed out. At this time if a user click a button on the page, I want to display the first page of the wizard or display a warning page, then redirect to the first page.

Does Seam have built-in mechanism to support it?

I made a sample. I restart JBoss server to simulate the time out (I even removed the tmp and work directory). When the http session is timed out, I found that the page is alway redisplayed when I click any button on an intermediate page. It should diplay the next page as in the normal case, but it does not.

Thanks.

[gavin.king]

Use @Conversational in the current release, or no-conversation-view-id in CVS.

[gfzhang]

Thanks for your quick reply. But it does not work.

I add some pages in the numberGuess sample. The followng is the page flow xml file:

<pageflow-definition name="numberGuess">

 <start-page name="displayGuess" view-id="/numberGuess.jsp">
 ....
 <transition name="interval" to="toInterval">
 <action expression="#{numberGuess.show}" />
 </transition>
 </start-page>

 <page name="toInterval" view-id="/interval.jsp">
 <redirect/>
 <transition name="back" to="displayGuess"/>
 <transition name="done" to="toDone">
 <action expression="#{numberGuess.show}" />
 </transition>
 </page>

 <page name="toDone" view-id="/done.jsp">
 <redirect/>
 <transition name="back" to="displayGuess">
 <action expression="#{numberGuess.show}" />
 </transition>
 <end-conversation />
 </page>

</pageflow-definition>

In "toInterval" page, I restart JBoss server, then click Done button. I hope this would cause the numberGuess page to be displayed, but not. The toInterval page is redisplayed.

The following is the show method:

 @Conversational(ifNotBegunOutcome="back")
 public void show()
 {
 System.out.println( "i am called" ) ;
 }

even if i use
@Conversational(ifNotBegunOutcome="/numberGuess.jsp")
it still won't work.

What is wrong in my code?

Thanks.

[gavin.king]

The ifNotBegunOutcome needs to trigger a navigation rule in your faces-config.xml, of course!

Its not going to trigger a transition in the pageflow, since there is no pageflow, since you just restarted the server!