I probably lack understanding of some detail abut how these panels work and the life cycle of an entity.  Could somebody help point me in the right direction?

I am having a problem when I return from a modalPanel.

I am using a commandButton on the panel to save updates.

When I return, I get an error during render saying that the id is the wrong type (String instead of Long).  I am reading the managed attribute on the EntityHome bean to determine rendering of the commandButton(s).

If I remove the rendered attribute it works fine but I have these panels in a number of places within the application and most have different buttons rendered depending on the entityHome state.

Here are some code snippets if they will help.

        <div class="association" id="commentsesChildren">
        
            <rich:dataTable value="#{esrsHome.topLevelEsrCommentses}" 
                           var="esrComments" 
                      rendered="#{not empty esrsHome.esrCommentses}" 
                    rowClasses="rvgRowOne,rvgRowTwo"
                            id="esrCommentsesTable">
                <h:column>
                    <f:facet name="header">Comment Thread</f:facet>
                    <rich:tree switchType="client">
                         <rich:treeNodesAdaptor id="cmt" var="cmt" nodes="#{esrComments}">
                    <rich:treeNode>
                         <b>
                         <a:commandLink id="rootCommentLinkA"
                              action="#{projectTrackingHelper.setTrackingAttributes(cmt.id,cmt.commentText)}"
                              oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('editCommentPanel');"
                              reRender="esrEditCommentsForm">
                                           #{cmt.commentText}
                         </a:commandLink>
                         </b>
                    </rich:treeNode>
                    <rich:recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor id="rply" var="rply"
                         roots="#{cmt.esrCommentses}" nodes="#{rply.esrCommentses}">
                         <rich:treeNode>
                              <a:commandLink 
                                   action="#{projectTrackingHelper.setTrackingAttributes(rply.id,rply.commentText)}"
                                   oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('editCommentPanel');"
                                   reRender="esrEditCommentsForm">
                                                #{rply.commentText}
                              </a:commandLink>
                         </rich:treeNode>
                    </rich:recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor>
               </rich:treeNodesAdaptor>
              </rich:tree>
                </h:column>
            </rich:dataTable>
        </div>



     <!-- Popup for editing Comments. -->
     <rich:modalPanel  id="editCommentPanel" minHeight="320" minWidth="530" 
                 height="320" width="530" zindex="2000">    

         <f:facet name="header"> ... </f:facet>
         <f:facet name="controls"> ... </f:facet>

         <h:form id="esrEditCommentsForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" styleClass="edit">
          <div id="editPanelStuff">  <!-- Put in to try different reRender locations  -->
               <s:decorate id="commentDecoration" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
                              <ui:define name="label">Comment Text</ui:define>
                    <h:inputTextarea id="commentText"
                         cols="80"
                         rows="8"
                         required="true"
                         value="#{esrCommentsHome.commentText}"/>
               </s:decorate>

               <br/>
               <div class="actionButtons" style="text-align: left">
                    <h:commandButton
                         id="update"
                         value="Update"
                         action="#{esrCommentsHelper.updateComment}"
                         rendered="#{esrCommentsHome.wired}"
                    />
                    <s:button
                         id="cancelModal"
                         value="Cancel"
                         onclick="#{rich:component('editCommentPanel')}.hide()" />
               </div>
          </div>
         </h:form>
     </rich:modalPanel>   

Bean:

@Stateless
@Name("esrCommentsHelper")
public class EsrCommentsHelperBean implements EsrCommentsHelper {
     
    @In
    EsrCommentsHome esrCommentsHome;
    public void esrCommentsHelper()
    {
    }
    
    public void updateComment() {
         String newText = esrCommentsHome.getCommentText();
         Long id = esrCommentsHome.getEsrCommentsId();
         esrCommentsHome.clearInstance();
         esrCommentsHome.setId(id);
         esrCommentsHome.find();
         esrCommentsHome.getInstance().setCommentText(newText);
         esrCommentsHome.update();
    }
}