JSF never renders page without redirect rule

Question

We have two forms where we need to pass values from one to the other. We pass the parameters successfully, but the second page never renders in the browser. The browser just hangs and the request never completes. If we add the redirect rule to faces-config.xml, the page renders but the parameter value is reset to null.

Here's our navigation rule in faces-config:

   <navigation-rule>
    <from-view-id>/activeApps.xhtml</from-view-id>
        <from-outcome>viewApp</from-outcome>
        <to-view-id>/viewApplications.xhtml</to-view-id>
    </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

This is how we pass the parameter from the first form (activeApps.xhtml):

<rich:menuItem ajaxSingle="true" value="View Application Form" action="#{Form1.viewApp}">
 <a4j:actionparam name="selectedApplicationId"value="{applicationId}" assignTo="#{Form2.applicationIdString}"/>
</rich:menuItem>

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

If you want to change from destination page, you need to fire a real HTTP request, not an Ajax request.