"norman.richards(a)jboss.com" wrote : Ok, UIDocument now has a sendRedirect flag. If this is set (either in the template or by the parent component reaching down) we will bypass the the generation and just keep the value locally. cool :) anonymous wrote : We needed some way to transfer the data. I noticed UIAttachment us using get/setValue. Assuming that it implemented ValueHolder, I thought I might reach up and set the values directly if I could. Unfortunately, I just realized you don't actually implement ValueHolder. I'm not sure this is proper use of ValueHolder anyway, so if you have a better idea, I'm all ears. http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.1_01/docs/api/javax/faces/co... - I think that implementing ValueHolder here is a correct (I just hadn't) - there might be some interesting ways of using JSF Converters (though as they *have* to return a String when converting from the model to the view perhaps not) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010510#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...