I have a favourites chart, on click on an item in the chart, I have to inlcude a page in rich:tab. The favourites chart is built using jQuery and on each leaf click event I do a ui:include with jstl check. Please find the below code.

<rich:tabPanel>
        <rich:tab label="#{mnOrdrMsgs.mainordr}" immediate="true"
            id="mainorderTab" styleClass="tabPanel">

            <c:if test="${favouritesBean.selectedNaviItem != null}">
                <ui:include src="#{favouritesBean.selectedPage}" />
            </c:if>

            </rich:tab>
        <rich:tab label="#{mnOrdrMsgs.archiv}" immediate="true"
            id="archivTab" styleClass="tabPanel">
        Archive
    </rich:tab>
    </rich:tabPanel>

The problem is the value of favouritesBean.selectedPage is always null. Can anyone please help in this case. I am really stuck since 2 days.

first I set the value in the backing bean from javascript(code below).

<a4j:form>

<a4j:jsFunction name="updateTab" reRender="mainorderTab">

<a4j:actionparam name="naviItemSelected" assignTo="# {favouritesBean.selectedNaviItem}" />

</a4j:jsFunction>

</a4j:form>

later in the bean the value is checked(code below)

public String getSelectedPage(){

if(this.selectedNaviItem.equals("Auftragstemplateladen")){

selectedPage="/protected/mainorder/auftragtemplate.xhtml"; }

return this.selectedPage; }

Is this the right way?