I think what you want to use is a nested conversation. This can be done either by annotating the method with @Begin(nested=true), by adding <s:conversationPropagation type="nested"/> to the <h:commandLink>, or by using <begin-conversation nested="true".....> in pages.xml. Conversations are stack based. I'd suggest you spend some time reading the docs about them as they are central to Seam. You can specify a no-conversation-view-id attribute in pages.xml to specify where the user will be directed to if a page that expects a conversation to exist is accessed without one. This should catch the back button issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035575#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...