Hi,

I'm using richfaces 3.3.3 with spring web flow.

I have a facelets component for a combobox that includes a special item (select item). After selecting the item, an action is invoked. Here is the code

<h:selectOneMenu id="#{id}" value="#{value}" required="#{required}">

            <f:selectItems value="#{selectItems.items}" />

            <c:if

                test="#{selectItems.action != 'none'>

                <f:selectItem itemLabel="#{msg.global_new_entry}" itemValue="" />

                <a4j:support id="new_entry_ajax_region_#{id}" event="onchange"

                    rendered="#{showNewElement}" status="commonstatus"

                    action="#{selectItems.newAction}" reRender="#{flowRenderFragments}"

                    ajaxSingle="true" process="#{process}"

                    onsubmit="if (#{rich:element(id)}.value != '') {change_#{id}(); return false;}">

                </a4j:support>

            </c:if>

    </h:selectOneMenu>

The problem is that I dont want the special item to be a valid value for the combo. When I select it, validation is performed so the action is not called. I cannot put immediate="true" because I want the model to be updated. This special item is used to create an entry and populate it back in the combo. This is the case if required="true".