A page action is the right way to do it. If you don't want it to be reinvoked on subsequent partial submits, you have two options: (1) map the page action to a "fake" view id - yes, a page action is allowed to perform navigation and result in a different view id, just like struts! Perhaps thats not clear in the docs. (2) set a page scope variable in the action, and do I would say that (1) is most elegant. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057063#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...