h:inputTex in a form not re rendered when using a a4j:commandButton

[ovione]

we have the following form

<h:form>

     <a4j:commandButton id="someidf" value="#{cjr_main.getPersonDetail}" immediate="true" action="#{ManageDossierBean.getPersonDetail}" render="toRefreshFormOutside" />

     <h:inputText size="15" value="#{ManageDossierBean.fullRN}" id="NNoutside"/>

     <a4j:outputPanel  id="toRefreshFormOutside">

          #{ManageDossierBean.timestamp}<br/>

          #{ManageDossierBean.dosName}<br/>

          <h:inputText value="#{ManageDossierBean.dosName}" id="name" />

          <h:outputText  value="#{ManageDossierBean.dosName}" id="nameoutput" />              

      </a4j:outputPanel>

</h:form>

when we click on the commandbutton with id='someidf' i would expect that everything inside the a4j:outputPanel gets rendered.

Unfortunately the <h:inputText with id="name" stays blank and is not renderd with the values that are in the ManageDossierBean.dosName

If someone could explain what I should do to render everything in the

a4j:outputPanel including an <h:inputText

thanks for your help

[healeyb]

There's nothing wrong with what you've got there, I just tried the same code and it works fine. Perhaps dosName isn't

getting updated as you'd expect, try some logging in getDosName(). What bean scope is your backing bean? you

probably want @ViewScoped at least rather than @RequestScoped.

Regards,

Brendan.