<s:link> with simultaneous action and view attributes applie

[asookazian]

Is it possible to do that? I need to pre-populate a multi checkbox (h:selectManyCheckbox) in an .xhtml page by calling a method in a SFSB first, then rendering the JSF as follows:

<s:link id="viewUserRoleSummary" value="View User-Role Summary" action="userRoleSearch.test" view="/filterRoles.xhtml"/>

behavior i'm getting is no test() method call (output from method is not in the server.log) and successfully forwarding to filterRoles.xhtml.

How can I achieve both in the proper order? Is it something to be configured in pages.xml via page navigation with extra method call (if possible??)

[pmuir]

No, it's one or the other. Easiest is to execute an action from the link, then do navigation from pages.xml, or you can call a view, and use pages.xml to execute an action using raise-event (needs to be a recent Seam for this).

[asookazian]

I tried the following and it seems to work ok:

<h:panelGrid id="select_grid" columns="1" rendered="#{userRoleSearch.seedSelection}">
 <h:selectManyCheckbox id="allRoles"
 value="#{userRoleSearch.selectedChoices}"
 layout="pageDirection">
 <f:selectItems value="#{userRoleSearch.choices}"/>
 </h:selectManyCheckbox>
</h:panelGrid>

Your response makes sense to me, thx. I will research raise-event as well.