datascroller, datatable and browser back button

[avaldez314]

Hi, I have an a4j:form with a rich:datatable and a rich:datascroller that store the current page in a backing bean (session scoped).

If the user navigates away from that page, and then hit the browser's back button the datatable and the datascroller don't show the latest page that the user was viewing, instead it shows the first page of data.

If the user hit the browser reload button the datatable and datascroller are update to the latest viewed data page.

As a workaround I implement a back button link that solved this issue, but I just want to know if there is a better way of solve this kind of issue...

[ilya_shaikovsky]

unfortunately we can't solve this problem currently. Browser just didn't care about Ajax requests after back button activation.

[avaldez314]

Thank you for your answer, I thought it could be done with something like a <a4j:onload> (?) that could do a page reRender on page load or some event that is fired when the back button is hit...

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I'm afraid that script will not be reevaluated on returning to page with back button. You can easily try this by using just js function and call it from just &lt;sript&gt; block on your page.

[avaldez314]

There is no need to try it, I'm sure you're right :-)

Thank you for your replies.