calling a view-state from an html link <a> tag

[robinbajaj]

Hi there,
How can I call a view-state from with in a <a href="" ..> tag.
Essentially I want to open up a specific view-state from with in a SWF flow
when the user clicks an html link in the sidebar.
Please help,
Rob

[wolfman22]

it's just possible to call a Flow (where the first View-state will be showed/executed)
But it's not possible to enter in the middle of a flow - probably you have to split your workflow into flow parts and/or subflow parts

[robinbajaj]

I have PolicySearch page showing search Results in a datatable. When I click on a specific row
in this datatable,

<view-state id="reviewPolicies" view="policySearch.xhtml">
<transition on="selectPolicy" to="selectedPolicy">
			<set name="flowScope.aPolicy" value="searchResults.selectedRow" />
</transition>
		
</view-state>

I <transition on="selectPolicy"> to view-state "selectedPolicy"

<view-state id="selectedPolicy" view="selectedPolicy.xhtml">
		<transition on="driverSummary" to="driverSummary" />
</view-state>

On this "selectedPolicy" view-state I correctly show the policyDetails using the flowScope.aPolicy object.
This page has a sidebar containing the link to the "Drivers" on that policy.
I want to click on the Drivers link in the sidebar and start the DriverSummary subflow using the "policy" object that is in the flowScope.

So I have this subflow-state

<subflow-state id="driverSummary" subflow="driverSummary">
		<input name="policy" value="aPolicy" />

</subflow-state>

which goes to this driverSummary.xml flow which has <input> variable of policy which pulls the Drivers and shows them in the datatable.

<input name="policy" type="com.abc.model.Policy"/>

The problem is I always get a null "policy" input in the driverSummary.xml when I visit this flow using the sidebar link
that uses a <h:outputLink value="driverSummary"> Drivers </h:outputLink>

My flows are declared in webflow-config.xml as follows

<webflow:flow-location path="/WEB-INF/flows/policy/policySearch.xml" />
<webflow:flow-location path="/WEB-INF/flows/driver/driverSummary.xml" />

I have noticed when I hover my mouse over the Drivers link while i am on the policyDetails page (in policySearch flow)
the browser shows the link as
http://localhost.../spring/policy/driverSummary instead of http://localhost.../spring/driver/driverSummary
Could that be causing the issue.


Please help

[jeremyg484]

At the moment, you cannot signal an event to Web Flow using a JSF <h: outputLink>. You must use a commandLink, or some other component that is a JSF ActionSource.