needing h:outputLink and nodeSelectListener to work in sync, but now need to click link twice

[Matt Kohanek]

I have a tree, here is the first root node of it:

<rich:treeNodesAdaptor nodes="#{testNodesBean.projects}" var="projects">
                        <rich:treeNode nodeSelectListener="#{treeClickBean.projectSelection}" ajaxSubmitSelection="true"  
                          reRender="projectForm">
                            <h:outputLink value="/NI/explorer_click/project.jsf">
                            <h:outputText value="#{projects.projectName}" />
                            </h:outputLink>
                        </rich:treeNode>

As you can see, each node is also a command link that sends you to a new page, and this page uses whichever node has been selected to render the things you see.

It sends you to a page that has this:

<h:form id="projectForm >
                
                <h:outputText value="#{treeClickBean.projectId}"  />
                <br/>
                <h:outputText value="#{treeClickBean.name}" />
                
            </h:form>

SO the goal is, when a user clicks on the node, it first sends them to this new page that has the h:form from above. Then the outputtext is populated depending on the nodeSelectListener tag.

What happens now, is a user clicks on the node, he is sent to the new page, but the values are empty. Then once your on the page, if you click on the node a second time, it does render the data on the page like I want.

So essentially, what is happening is you have to click twice on a node to get the new page with all the necessary data. Once to get sent to the page, and a second time to actually render the data on this new page.

I need this to happen all in one click. One click sends you to the new page, and renders the data on the page, instead of two clicks. There must be a way for it to remember which node you clicked on to get sent to the new page.

Any ideas?