Finally i tried the following in pre.page.xhtml (replaced the button with action execute, which calls an empty action method): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <page xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-2.0.xsd"> | | <end-conversation /> | | <action execute="#{navigatior.openQueryCatalog}" /> | | <navigation from-action="#{navigatior.openQueryCatalog}"> | <begin-conversation flush-mode="manual" /> | <redirect view-id="/modules/queryCatalog/catalog/main.xhtml" /> | </navigation> | | </page> | It seems to work.. Is this the way to do it or does anyone know a better solution? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4100525#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...