"johnurban" wrote : anonymous wrote : anonymous wrote : 2) What does <h:messages /> give for the dropdown box. You've probably hit a conversion error. (You have <h:messages globalOnly="true" /> but none for the h:selectOneMenu) | | | | Fourth, if you say add an h:messages to the dropdown, what do I name the <h:message for="???? this name ????"/>. | | <h:selectOneMenu value="#{roomFinder.example}" converter="org.jboss.seam.EntityConverter" id="example"> | | <f:selectItems value="#{roomListByOrganization}" /> | | </h:selectOneMenu> | | <h:message for="example" /> | | anonymous wrote : anonymous wrote : 3)Try adding a public void setExample(Room example) {...} method - how else can the roomFinder.example get updated?! | | | | | | | When I click the create button, I simply need to add a new Person record, calling the PersonEditor.create() method with the roomID, take from the room dropdown. Why do I need to go update the RoomFinder bean with that value? | | Well JSF will try to set the value of any compnents on the page including roomFinder.example. Remember selectOneMenus are input components not output. | | anonymous wrote : 4) You don't want @Out and @SelectItems on the same outjection as @SelectItems does an outjection itself (having wrapped the list you provide in a list of SelectItem) | | If I remove the @Out, I get this: I'm concerned about the fact that you are outjecting the list of rooms into the session. Try removing the @Out, setting roomListByOrganisation as a List and but a breakpoint on the @Factory method and see when it is run and what the java variable roomListByOrganisation is set to after the Factory method has run - check that you aren't outjecting null! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3980292#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...