EL in master page.xml view-id

[shouvikrb]

    I have the following in the main pages.xml and the view-id for page does not seem to get resolved. The redirect view-id, however, works as desired. I looked in the source code and it seems like navigation/Pages.java is doing a createValueExpression() for the redirect view-id but not for the page view-id. But then again, I may be looking at a wrong place completely.

<page view-id="#{myroot}/something/home.xhtml">   

   <navigation>

     <rule if-outcome="createObj">

       <redirect view-id="#{myRoot}/other/core.xhtml" />

     </rule>

   </navigation>

 </page>

Am I trying to do something bad?

[pmuir]

Yes, this isn't supported. You would need to file a FR in JIRA for this to be supported.

[dschauder]

Is there any way to break up the master pages.xml file into multiple files at a sub-directory level?  I know that you can create a pages.xml for each file, but when you have common navigation rules that are only specific to a single section of a web application, it results in a lot of duplication or overcomplication.