Hi Nick,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

What you mean by the PhaseTracker is monitoring the requests via the a4j log component right?

Wow.. that is really a cool component.. first time I used it and it can lead to great understanding of what is happening under the hood.

Anyway there is something really strange happening. As the log output below indicates, it seems to be taking all the components on the page and submitting it.

I am not sure why this happens since I have the suggestbox within a a4j region component.

This is the code snippet of how I call it. Note that I have many suggestboxes on the single form and other forms as well and therefore I have created a common template for it.

<a:region renderRegionOnly="true">
 <s:decorate id="projectManagerField" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="label">Project Manager Email</ui:define>
 <h:inputText id="projectManager" required="true" size="80" value="#{recommendationHome.projectManagerEmail}"/>
 <ui:include src="template/SuggestionBox.xhtml">
 <ui:param name="suggestCompleteFieldId" value="recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager"/>
 <ui:param name="suggestFieldId" value="projectManager"/>
 </ui:include>
 </s:decorate>
 <a:log popup="false" level="ALL" style="width: 800px; height: 300px;"></a:log>
</a:region>

The common template (i.e. SuggestionBox.xhtml) code.

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:a="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">

 <script type="text/javascript">
 function openSuggest(fieldId) {
 document.getElementById(fieldId).component.callSuggestion(true);
 }
 </script>

 <a:region renderRegionOnly="true">

 <h:graphicImage value="/img/suggest.gif" id="#{suggestFieldId}_SuggestIcon"
 onclick="openSuggest('#{suggestCompleteFieldId}_Suggestbox')"
 style="cursor:pointer;" alt="suggestion list">
 </h:graphicImage>

 <rich:suggestionbox height="300" width="700" usingSuggestObjects="false"
 suggestionAction="#{suggestBoxQuery.autoCompleteEmailWithInactive}"
 var="_recordSet" for="#{suggestFieldId}"
 minChars="70" ajaxSingle="true" bypassUpdates="true" immediate="true" selfRendered="true"
 process="#{suggestCompleteFieldId}"
 rowClasses="suggest-table-cell" frequency="0.2" nothingLabel="No Records Found"
 id="#{suggestFieldId}_Suggestbox">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <rich:columnGroup>
 <rich:column colspan="4" style="border-right:0px;">
 <h:outputText value="Suggestion Box" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column breakBefore="true" styleClass="rich-table-subheadercell">
 <h:outputText value="Email"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column styleClass="rich-table-subheadercell">
 <h:outputText value="Name"/>
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column styleClass="rich-table-subheadercell">
 <h:outputText value="Position" />
 </rich:column>
 <rich:column styleClass="rich-table-subheadercell">
 <h:outputText value="Status" />
 </rich:column>
 </rich:columnGroup>
 </f:facet>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{_recordSet.email}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{_recordSet.employeeName}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{_recordSet.position}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{_recordSet.active==1 ? 'Active' : 'Inactive'}"/>
 </h:column>
 </rich:suggestionbox>

 </a:region>

</ui:composition>

Here goes the log output. It is really really large!!!

debug[9:32:12,828]: set timeout for request suggestion
debug[9:32:13,029]: Observer event occurs
debug[9:32:13,029]: Call data for update choices
debug[9:32:13,030]: Have Event [object Object] with properties: target: [object HTMLInputElement], srcElement: undefined, type: keydown
debug[9:32:13,031]: Query preparation for form 'recommendation' requested
debug[9:32:13,032]: Append hidden control recommendation with value [recommendation] and value attribute [recommendation]
debug[9:32:13,033]: Append text control recommendation:projectNumberField:projectNumber with value [PX1] and value attribute [PX1]
debug[9:32:13,033]: Append text control recommendation:projectNameField:projectName with value [Project PX1] and value attribute [Project PX1]
debug[9:32:13,034]: Append text control recommendation:programNumberField:programNumber with value [X1] and value attribute [X1]
debug[9:32:13,034]: Append text control recommendation:programNameField:programName with value [Program X1] and value attribute [Program X1]
debug[9:32:13,035]: Append text control recommendation:pirReportDateField:pirReportDateInputDate with value [27/02/2009] and value attribute [27/02/2009]
debug[9:32:13,036]: Append hidden control recommendation:pirReportDateField:pirReportDateInputCurrentDate with value [02/2009] and value attribute [02/2009]
debug[9:32:13,036]: Append select-one control recommendation:businessUnitField:businessUnit with value [2] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,037]: Append text control recommendation:applicationNameField:applicationName with value [Project PX1 Application Name] and value attribute [Project PX1 Application Name]
debug[9:32:13,038]: Append text control recommendation:pirReportOdmUrlField:pirReportOdmUrl with value [http://test-001.xyz.com.au/livelink/llisapi.dll/E6923_OBD_CRM_PIR_Report.doc?func=doc.Fetch&nodeId=15953380&docTitle=E6923+OBD+CRM+PIR+Report&viewType=1] and value attribute [http://test-001.xyz.com.au/livelink/llisapi.dll/E6923_OBD_CRM_PIR_Report.doc?func=doc.Fetch&nodeId=15953380&docTitle=E6923+OBD+CRM+PIR+Report&viewType=1]
debug[9:32:13,038]: Append text control recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager with value [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au] and value attribute [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au]
debug[9:32:13,039]: Append hidden control recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox_selection with value [] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,039]: Append text control recommendation:sponsorField:sponsor with value [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au] and value attribute [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au]
debug[9:32:13,040]: Append hidden control recommendation:sponsorField:sponsor_Suggestbox_selection with value [] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,041]: Append text control recommendation:businessOwnerField:businessOwner with value [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au] and value attribute [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au]
debug[9:32:13,041]: Append hidden control recommendation:businessOwnerField:businessOwner_Suggestbox_selection with value [] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,042]: Append text control recommendation:itDomainOwnerField:itDomainOwner with value [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au] and value attribute [Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au]
debug[9:32:13,043]: Append hidden control recommendation:itDomainOwnerField:itDomainOwner_Suggestbox_selection with value [] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,043]: Append select-one control recommendation:enterRecommendationsField:enterRecommendations with value [false] and value attribute [null]
debug[9:32:13,044]: Append hidden control javax.faces.ViewState with value [j_id4] and value attribute [j_id4]
debug[9:32:13,044]: parameter ajaxSingle with value recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox
debug[9:32:13,045]: parameter recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox with value recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox
debug[9:32:13,045]: parameter inputvalue with value Travis.De.Silva@xyz.com.au
debug[9:32:13,045]: Look up queue with name 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox'
debug[9:32:13,046]: Creating new transient queue 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox' with default settings
debug[9:32:13,046]: Adding queue 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox' to queues registry
debug[9:32:13,046]: Queue is empty now
debug[9:32:13,047]: New request added to queue 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox'. Queue similarityGroupingId changed to recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox
debug[9:32:13,047]: Queue will wait 0ms before submit
debug[9:32:13,048]: Queue 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox' will submit request NOW
debug[9:32:13,049]: NEW AJAX REQUEST !!! with form: recommendation
debug[9:32:13,050]: Start XmlHttpRequest
debug[9:32:13,051]: Reqest state : 1
debug[9:32:13,052]: QueryString: AJAXREQUEST=recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3Aj_id307&recommendation=recommendation&recommendation%3AprojectNumberField%3AprojectNumber=PX1&recommendation%3AprojectNameField%3AprojectName=Project%20PX1&recommendation%3AprogramNumberField%3AprogramNumber=X1&recommendation%3AprogramNameField%3AprogramName=Program%20X1&recommendation%3ApirReportDateField%3ApirReportDateInputDate=27%2F02%2F2009&recommendation%3ApirReportDateField%3ApirReportDateInputCurrentDate=02%2F2009&recommendation%3AbusinessUnitField%3AbusinessUnit=2&recommendation%3AapplicationNameField%3AapplicationName=Project%20PX1%20Application%20Name&recommendation%3ApirReportOdmUrlField%3ApirReportOdmUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ftest-001.xyz.com.au%2Flivelink%2Fllisapi.dll%2FE6923_OBD_CRM_PIR_Report.doc%3Ffunc%3Ddoc.Fetch%26nodeId%3D15953380%26docTitle%3DE6923%2BOBD%2BCRM%2BPIR%2BReport%26viewType%3D1&recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3AprojectManager=Travis.De.Silva%40xyz.com.au&recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3AprojectManager_Suggestbox_selection=&recommendation%3AsponsorField%3Asponsor=Travis.De.Silva%40xyz.com.au&recommendation%3AsponsorField%3Asponsor_Suggestbox_selection=&recommendation%3AbusinessOwnerField%3AbusinessOwner=Travis.De.Silva%40xyz.com.au&recommendation%3AbusinessOwnerField%3AbusinessOwner_Suggestbox_selection=&recommendation%3AitDomainOwnerField%3AitDomainOwner=Travis.De.Silva%40xyz.com.au&recommendation%3AitDomainOwnerField%3AitDomainOwner_Suggestbox_selection=&recommendation%3AenterRecommendationsField%3AenterRecommendations=false&javax.faces.ViewState=j_id4&ajaxSingle=recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3AprojectManager_Suggestbox&recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3AprojectManager_Suggestbox=recommendation%3AprojectManagerField%3AprojectManager_Suggestbox&inputvalue=Travis.De.Silva%40xyz.com.au&AJAX%3AEVENTS_COUNT=1&
debug[9:32:13,054]: Reqest state : 1
debug[9:32:15,032]: Reqest state : 2
debug[9:32:15,035]: Reqest state : 3
debug[9:32:15,035]: Reqest state : 4
debug[9:32:15,036]: Reqest end with state 4
debug[9:32:15,036]: Response with content-type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
debug[9:32:15,036]: Full response content: <?xml version="1.0"?> Suggestion BoxEmailNamePositionStatusTravis.De.Silva@xyz.com.auTravis DE SILVASolution DeveloperActiveNo Records Found
debug[9:32:15,038]: Header Ajax-Expired not found, search in
debug[9:32:15,038]: search for elements by name 'meta' in element #document
debug[9:32:15,039]: Find
debug[9:32:15,039]: Find
debug[9:32:15,039]: Header Ajax-Update-Ids not found, search in
debug[9:32:15,040]: search for elements by name 'meta' in element #document
debug[9:32:15,040]: Find
debug[9:32:15,040]: Update page by list of rendered areas from response recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox:suggest
debug[9:32:15,041]: search for elements by name 'script' in element #document
debug[9:32:15,042]: search for elements by name 'link' in element #document
debug[9:32:15,043]: in response with src=/pirlessons/a4j/s/3_3_0.GAstylesheet/theme.xcss/DATB/eAGbo7-tNnT5DGkAEXoDrg__
debug[9:32:15,043]: Such element exist in document
debug[9:32:15,043]: in response with src=/pirlessons/stylesheet/theme.css
debug[9:32:15,044]: Such element exist in document
debug[9:32:15,044]: call getElementById for id= org.ajax4jsf.queue_script
debug[9:32:15,044]: Update page part from call parameter for ID recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox:suggest
debug[9:32:15,045]: call getElementById for id= recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox:suggest
debug[9:32:15,046]: Replace content of node by replaceChild()
debug[9:32:15,047]: search for elements by name 'script' in element table
debug[9:32:15,047]: Scripts in updated part count : 0
debug[9:32:15,047]: call getElementById for id= org.ajax4jsf.oncomplete
debug[9:32:15,048]: Call local oncomplete function after processing updates
debug[9:32:15,048]: After request: queue 'recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox'
debug[9:32:15,048]: There are 0 requests more in this queue
debug[9:32:15,049]: Queue is empty now
debug[9:32:15,049]: Update part of page for Id: recommendation:projectManagerField:projectManager_Suggestbox:suggest successful
debug[9:32:15,049]: call getElementById for id= ajax-view-state
debug[9:32:15,050]: Hidden JSF state fields: [object HTMLSpanElement]
debug[9:32:15,050]: Namespace for hidden view-state input fields is undefined
debug[9:32:15,050]: search for elements by name 'input' in element span
debug[9:32:15,051]: Replace value for inputs: 26 by new values: 1
debug[9:32:15,051]: Input in response: javax.faces.ViewState
debug[9:32:15,052]: Found same input on page with type: hidden
debug[9:32:15,053]: Found same input on page with type: hidden
debug[9:32:15,053]: search for elements by name 'INPUT' in element span
debug[9:32:15,054]: Replace value for inputs: 26 by new values: 0
debug[9:32:15,054]: call getElementById for id= _A4J.AJAX.focus
debug[9:32:15,054]: No focus information in response
debug[9:32:15,074]: call getElementById for id= _ajax:data
debug[9:32:15,075]: AJAX response complete - updateChoices
debug[9:32:15,094]: render for index 0 and old index -1