Hi All,

I am required to develop a jsf page which will allow me to search the database with multiple search criterias and display the list below with sorting and pagination capabilities.
I used my actionclass which extended from EntityQuery and declared my datamodel list.
on click of search i fire a method which performs a query and returns me the list in the rich:dataTable.
initially when the page loads I populate the list using default search criteria from a method marked @factory.
everything went fine till thtis point.
now when i added datascroller, everytime i click on the datascroller it fires the factory method and retrieves the default list and it doesnt retain the inputfields in the form as well.
and the same happens when i do sorting.

most of the forums spoke about extending datamodel or entityquery but i could not lay my hands on any complete code which would help me understand on what exactly do i need to do.

I am sure many of you must have come across this kind of scenario and were able to slove it so please help me in this regard.

I ave no issues loading the datamodel on the session and use it for pagination and sorting but i dont know how to do that as well.

Thanks in advance
Regards,
Prajwal