I am able to get sortBy to work on tables where there is only one submit action on the entire page, but when there is more than 1 submit action it does nothing. The sortBy code below does not work:

<h:form>
<table class="form" style="width: 100%; background: #f0f0f0">
<tr>
<th colspan="6" rowspan="1">Ticket Status:</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="white-space: nowrap; width:130px">
<h:selectOneRadio onclick="this.form.submit();" styleClass="blank" value="#{SupportBacking.ticketStatus}" required="true">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="Open" itemValue="open" />
<f:selectItem itemLabel="Closed" itemValue="closed" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p />
<rich:dataTable rendered="#{SupportBacking.render}" styleClass="form" width="100%" value="#{SupportBacking.ticketRS}" var="ticketRSItem">

<rich:column sortBy="#{ticketRSItem.id}" styleClass="blank">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="ID" />
</f:facet>
<a href="https://support.thing5.com/ttx.cgi?cmd=ticket&key=#{ticketRSItem.accesskey}" class="button img" target="content"><img src="/images/magnify.gif" /></a>
<h:outputText value="#{ticketRSItem.id}" styleClass="blank" />
</rich:column>

<rich:column styleClass="blank">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Subject" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{ticketRSItem.subject}" styleClass="blank" />
</rich:column>

<rich:column styleClass="blank">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Date opened" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{ticketRSItem.opened}" styleClass="blank" />
</rich:column>

<rich:column styleClass="blank">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Status" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{ticketRSItem.status}" styleClass="blank" />
</rich:column>

</rich:dataTable>
</h:form>