Thanks, but the actions are Stateful which is not applicable/permitted in Page scope. A hidden field is probably not the best way to do things in any frameworks but unfortunately I think it's my best option. I have heaps of these glorified crud pages of which this example is a very simple one. Most of them have a more complex filter feature that allows the user to filter the list using anything up 5 or 6 fields. Unfortunately the idea of creating these as entity-queries in components.xml doesn't scale. Since all the queries differ (i.e. different order by and where clauses). If there is another way of doing this I am all ears!! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121693#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...