how to navigate through icefaces jsp portlet pages?

Question

I'm trying to navigate through pages in icefaces portlet(Liferay) but I can't get it to work.

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/AdmissionApplication/Application.iface</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>y</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/StudentPage/StudentMainPage.iface</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule> 

and here is the button action

public String button1_action() {
//return null means stay on the same page
return "y";
}

I tried to put .jsp extension and .iface and many options I found in the forums put I can't get them to work. Could any body help me?

Answer 1

The navigation paths ought to be relative to the webapplication context, not to the domain context. It look like that /AdmissionApplication and /StudentPage points to two physically different webapplications. You can't forward from one to other using JSF navigation. You should then use h:outputLink (or whatever equivalent in IceFaces) instead, like so:

<h:outputLink value="/StudentPage/StudentMainPage.iface">

Another advantage is that this is more SEO and User friendly than commandlinks/buttons (which should be avoided for "plain vanilla" page-to-page navigation).