look at opening the modal using the oncomplete event on the a:commandButton (or link). Cheers, Damian. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080285#4080285 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4080285