Thanks Sergey...

Can you see anything wrong with this as the queue param seems to have not changed anything.

<rich:inputNumberSpinner id="stableNumbers" immediate="true" enableManualInput="false" minValue="1" maxValue="25" step="1"
 rendered="#{eachResource == 'INDOOR_STABLE'}" value="#{bookingController.stableNumbers}">
 <a4j:support event="onchange" LimitToList="true" reRender="resourcesAddedTotal" eventsQueue="stableNumbersQueue"/>
</rich:inputNumberSpinner>

Humm RTFM .. I took out the requestDelay. Silly me!

Ok, I have to admit I am not sure what all that means.. you must have me mistaken with someone who really understands all this ;)

I think what it is saying is that since some server side vars don't get updated till one of the late stages of the JSF lifecycle then I ain't going to be able to use em as they wont be updated in time.

I think I just cheated and made them immediate=true to force the server side vars to be updated earlier in the phases. This works in all my problem cases so far ;)

This looks like the PROPER way to do things.. I think!

This is the code block and it all seems to work ok... I can't see any problems...

The 'XXXXX' is from an enum and its pretty cool that if I mis-spell it then I actually get an error as SOMETHING somehwere is actually mapping it to the ENUM within the El (I think)!.. VooDoo!

bookingResources is made available to the view by

@DataModel
private List<ResourceKind> bookingResources;

<rich:column colspan="3" breakBefore="true" rendered="#{eachResource == 'YARD' || eachResource == 'INDOOR_STABLE' || eachResource == 'CATERING_PER_HEAD'}">
 <rich:inputNumberSpinner id="yardNumbers" immediate="true" enableManualInput="false" minValue="1" maxValue="25" step="1" rendered="#{eachResource == 'YARD'}" value="#{bookingController.yardNumbers}">
 <a4j:support event="onchange" LimitToList="true" reRender="resourcesAddedTotal" eventsQueue="yardNumbersQueue" requestDelay="2000"/>
 </rich:inputNumberSpinner>
 <rich:inputNumberSpinner id="stableNumbers" immediate="true" enableManualInput="false" minValue="1" maxValue="25" step="1" rendered="#{eachResource == 'INDOOR_STABLE'}" value="#{bookingController.stableNumbers}">
 <a4j:support event="onchange" LimitToList="true" reRender="resourcesAddedTotal" eventsQueue="stableNumbersQueue" requestDelay="2000"/>
 </rich:inputNumberSpinner>
 <rich:inputNumberSpinner id="sittingsNumber" immediate="true" enableManualInput="false" minValue="1" maxValue="15" step="1" rendered="#{eachResource == 'CATERING_PER_HEAD'}" value="#{bookingController.cateringSittingsNumber}"><h:outputText value="#{messages.book_catering_sittings}"/>
 <a4j:support event="onchange" LimitToList="true" reRender="resourcesAddedTotal" eventsQueue="sittingsNumberQueue" requestDelay="2000"/>
 </rich:inputNumberSpinner>
 <rich:inputNumberSpinner id="mealsPerSittingNumber" immediate="true" enableManualInput="false" minValue="10" maxValue="100" step="1" rendered="#{eachResource == 'CATERING_PER_HEAD'}" value="#{bookingController.cateringMealsPerSittingNumber}"><h:outputText value="#{messages.book_catering_meals_per_sitting}"/>
 <a4j:support event="onchange" LimitToList="true" reRender="resourcesAddedTotal" eventsQueue="mealsPerSittingNumberQueue" requestDelay="2000"/>
 </rich:inputNumberSpinner>
</rich:column>

 public enum ResourceKind {
 RESIDENT_TRAINER ("resource_resident_trainer"),
 INDOOR_ARENA ("resource_indoor_arena"),
 DRESSAGE_ARENA ("resource_dressage_arena"),
 SJ_ARENA ("resource_sj_arena"),
 DRESSAGE_BOARDS_LETTER ("resource_dressage_boards_letters"),
 SHOWJUMPS ("resource_showjumps"),
 TIMING_EQUIPTMENT ("resource_timing_equiptment"),
 PA_SYSTEM ("resource_pa_system"),
 YARD ("resource_yard"),
 INDOOR_STABLE ("resource_indoor_stable"),
 CAFE ("resource_cafe"),
 CONF_ROOM ("resource_conf_room"),
 BOARDROOM ("resource_boardroom"),
 CATERING_PER_HEAD ("resource_catering_per_head"),
 EVENTS_MANAGEMENT_SOFTWARE ("resource_events_management_software");
 private final String inlLabel;
 ResourceKind(String inlLabel) {
 this.inlLabel = inlLabel;
 }
 public String getInlLabel() { return inlLabel; }
 }

I think the spinner is not even rendered anyhow so the event can't be raised anyhow.