Ooo! I know this one! I lean heavily on the Core JSF book by Geary & Horstmann, there is some good info on this in the page life cycle in Chapter 7. Specifically, the Immediate Components information on page 292. As you mentioned, the immediate attribute must be set to true for your components. The portion I tripped up on was adding "context.renderResponse();" at the end of my ValueChangeEvent code for the valueChangeListener. Then, the model maintained the previous state of my page without firing validation.
JR -----Original Message----- From: Richard Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:14 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Bypassing validation while still preserving values Hey everyone, I've got a form that has a couple of optional command links on it. They are basically "quick add" buttons so a user can quickly add things to drop downs if they aren't there. When these "quick add" buttons are clicked the user is sent to an add page, the user enters the new info and is then redirected back to the original page where the new entry is selected and all the other data is preserved from before they clicked the "quick add" button. The backing beans involved are request scoped and the values filled in before clicking the "quick add" button are preserved through the process using the <t:saveState> element. I'm trying to get the validation correct. I want all the form elements to be required when the user clicks the submit button, but when they hit the "quick add" link the validation should be bypassed. I thought of doing this with the immediate attribute set to true on the "quick add" command links but if I do that then any data the user entered on that page load (contact info type stuff) is lost. So I kind of need to bypass the validation but still update the model values if one of the command links are clicked, but have full validation done when the command button is pressed. I was looking at the new OptionalValidation Framework but I'm not sure exactly how to apply it in this case. I mean, what I really want is to have the validation type be none when command links are used and hard otherwise. Any ideas? Thanks, Rich
