i've posted a proposal in JIRA in short i propose to match * in a page view expression to a variable, for example named page and than alow EL expression in other elements. <page view-id="/up/admin/*.xhtml" conversation="%{page}Conversation" .. an alternative which is maybe cleaner is to have a context variabele "view" which is a seam generated object representing the view. <page view-id="/up/admin/*.xhtml" conversation="%{view.name}Conversation" .. view having properties like view.id (example /app/path/name.ext) view.fullPath ( example http://host/app/path/name.ext) view.name ( example name ) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4111635#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...