[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Dumb question: Links from a datatable

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This is a totally dumb question but I have been trying to figure this out all day and I'm not making progress.

I have a Seam application.  Like many applications, it displays a bunch of stuff in a DataTable.  I happen to be using the Tomahawk DataTable, but it shouldn't be that different from a plain JSF DataTable.

Anyway, this table holds a list of Books.  The last column is a link for Details, so you could click on that and get the details of the book.

The obvious way to do that is to have a Book as a DataTableModelSelected member.  The user clicks the link, that book is selected, and it navigates over to the book-details.jsf page.

But none of this is working.  I tried with a commandLink and commandButton, and they both correctly set the DataTableModelSelected member.  But, no matter what their action is, they just redisplay the page instead of navigating on to the book-details.jsf page.  I then tried to use a Seam s:link, and got the same behavior.

Surely there's a way to do this?  This is just basic stuff.  In PHP I would have used href="book-details.php?bookId=..." and that would have worked.  Why is this so much harder in Seam?


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