Skip checking on required fields

The validations occur on a page submit. Are you submitting the page on the submit or are you just redirecting to another url?

Otherwise to skip certain fields for validation - http://myfaces.apache.org/sandbox/subForm.html ( I however donot recommend doing this)

karanw:

When I say the flow gets followed when you press the cancel button, what I mean is that when the cancel button is pressed it calls an action that returns "cancel" which causes the page flow to navigate back to the previous page.

a_b:

How do I make a button just do a redirect without submitting?

http://www.winstonprakash.com/articles/jsf/jsf_url_dispatch.htm

OK I've seen that doc before.

I already have redirect in the navigation rule but the field checking still occurs.

So basically the only way I can skip the validation is to have the cancel button be a link to the page I want to navigate to, rather then use the navigation rules?

Here is someone who is trying to do the same thing - http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5348581

Yes tried immediate = "true". To be honest I don't get what this does, it seems really seems to be erratic in the way that it works. The only time i find this useful is if I am using a modal window and I want the action to run before the onshow. Apart form that it's hit and miss.

I'm puzzled as to why what I am doing is so unusual, how do people normally do this?

God I miss Stuts!

But did the immediate='true' work for you?

No still runs validation. The action that causes the page to flow to the configured page never gets run since it is blocked by the required field errors. Seems crazy I would have to write some custom validators to work around this

Typically we control navigation through the navigation rule
So in the button click we call a bean in which say we have

nextPage = "thankyou"; and in the faces-config file
 <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>thankyou</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/pages/thankyou.xhtml</to-view-id>
            <redirect/>
        </navigation-case>

Hope you are doing this

Yes that is what I am doing.  The issue is that the page I am starting at has some required fields,  the cancel button calls an action that returns "cancel". The navigation rule says that in the case of cancel being returned then go to page A. The problem is that the action is never called because the cancel button is a submit button which causes the page to be validated. Since not all of the required fields have been completed by the user (since they hit cancel because they don't want to complete the fields) so the validation failure prevents the action from being called.   I would have thought that setting immediate="true" on the button would have fixed it, but this property in my experience is flaky at best.

Ok I worked out the issue. I was using a4j commandButton but if I use standard command button then it works ok.