Yes, here it is: It is a Seam generated application, with some modifications, so we have AbcList & AbcEdit for some of the entities. It was required that the AbcList be ordered when you open the page by the first column. So I have 3 way to open AbcList: 1) From the menu (s:link) 2) From the AbcEdit screen, by clicking the "back" button (also s:link) 3) From the AbcEdit screen, by clicking the "delete" button (which is a h:commandButton), this returns to the AbcList by using a navigation rule defined in AbcEdit.page.xml In cases 1) & 2) I can add this: <f:param name="order" value="name asc"/> And it works fine. For 3) I tried to use the same but it is ignored. Then I placed the parameter in the AbcEdit.page.xml as in the first post, with the static value and it doesn't work. So I defined a Java bean with an attribute to keep the defeult order and now it works. But, as I said, it is so damn complicated to do. Since there is no alternative I'll guess we'll stick with this solution. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055188#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...