Hi,

I am buildina a simple research routine whith 2 date fields a selectOneMenu and a button:

<h:form id="pesquisaAbastecimentoForm">
<table>
     <tr>
          <td>
               <s:decorate id="dataInicialField" template="../layout/edit.xhtml">
                    <ui:define name="label" id="labelDataInicial">Data Inicial</ui:define>
                    <rich:calendar id="dataInicial" value="#{abastecimentoAction.dataInicialPesquisa}"
                         datePattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm" />
               </s:decorate>
               <s:decorate id="dataFinalField" template="../layout/edit.xhtml">
                    <ui:define name="label" id="labalDataFinal">Data Final</ui:define>
                    <rich:calendar id="dataFinal" value="#{abastecimentoAction.dataFinalPesquisa}"
                         datePattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm" />
               </s:decorate>                                   
          </td>
          <td>
               <s:decorate id="carroField" template="../layout/edit.xhtml">
                    <ui:define name="label">Carro</ui:define>
                    <h:selectOneMenu value="#{abastecimentoAction.idCarroPesquisa}" required="false">
                         <s:selectItems var="carro" value="#{carroList.resultList}" label="#{carro.nome}" itemValue="#{carro.id}" />
                    </h:selectOneMenu>
               </s:decorate>
               <s:div styleClass="actionButtons">
                    <s:button action="#{abastecimentoAction.pesquisaAbasatecimentos}" id="pesquisaAbastecimentos" value="Pesquisar Abastecimento">
                    </s:button>
               </s:div>
          </td>
     </tr>
</table>
</h:form>

And I have a seam component which should get the values and get the method pesquisaAbastecimentos executed.

@Name("abastecimentoAction")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class AbastecimentoAction implements Serializable {

     private static final long serialVersionUID = -2008939547568730028L;

     @Logger
     Log log;

     @In
     EntityManager entityManager;

     @In
     User user;
     
     //variáveis para pesquisa do abastecimento
     private Date dataInicialPesquisa;
     private Date dataFinalPesquisa;
     private int idCarroPesquisa;
     
     @DataModel
     List<AbastecimentoMensal> listaAbastecimentoMensal;

     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     @Create
     public void pesquisaAbasatecimentos() { ... }

public Date getDataInicialPesquisa() {
          return dataInicialPesquisa;
     }

     public void setDataInicialPesquisa(Date dataInicialPesquisa) {
          this.dataInicialPesquisa = dataInicialPesquisa;
     }

     public Date getDataFinalPesquisa() {
          return dataFinalPesquisa;
     }

     public void setDataFinalPesquisa(Date dataFinalPesquisa) {
          this.dataFinalPesquisa = dataFinalPesquisa;
     }

     public int getIdCarroPesquisa() {
          return idCarroPesquisa;
     }

     public void setIdCarroPesquisa(int idCarroPesquisa) {
          this.idCarroPesquisa = idCarroPesquisa;
     }

The method is correctly executed but the values for the fields are never populated. As I am relatively new to seam I could not find out why these fields are not being correctly filled by seam framework. The values are actually null and 0 when the button is pressed and the

#{abastecimentoAction.pesquisaAbasatecimentos}

method is executed. Any clues?

regards.