How to keep state of rich:panelMenu cross pages?

[philip142au]

Hi,

I'm trying to use <rich:panelMenu and I have my panel menu items.

<rich:panelMenuItem label="Member Activity List" action="#{panelMenu.memberActivityList}">

It calls the seam component, panelMenu and calls that method which is

public String memberActivityList() {
return "/MemberActivityList.xhtml";
}

The problem is - the <rich:panelMenu is not staying at the item I just clicked on, it folds up and does not show the selected menu item.
Why is that so?

Should I be returning something different from my method?

Any help greatly appriciated,

Thanks, Philip

(sorry I posted this in the design of rich faces forum by mistake, so posted it here correctly)

[philip142au]

Maybe no-one knows.
I saw a simular question posted nearly a year ago and no-one answered.
Also the docs are no help :(