Skip validation while opening modal panel

[Shaiju scientia]

Hi,
I have a form where it got an icon to open an LOV(List Of Values) panel.The LOV panel is nothing but a modal panel.
The original form(the parent form ) got couple of inputText with required="true" validation. To open the LOV panel i.e the modal panel, I am using a h:commandLink

    
<h:commandButton title="Search" value="Search" action="#{accountGrpLovHandlerBean.processLov}"  image="/images/Search-32.png" >
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{accountGrpLovHandlerBean.backingBean}" value="accntHeadTemplateBean" />
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{accountGrpLovHandlerBean.backingBeanAttribute}" value="accountHeadTemplate.accntGrp" />
						<f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{accountGrpLovHandlerBean.lovVisible}" value="true" />

					</h:commandButton> 

Now the issue is , the moment I click on this button, the required="true" validation for the inputTextBox get fired and stays back in the page,with validation error messages.
If I enter some value in the text box , the modal panels shows up ,as the validation is passed this time.

I have tried using a4j:commanButton also , but without any luck.
Can anybody suggest ??

Thanks in advance.
Shaiju

[Max Katz]

This should help: http://java.dzone.com/news/richfaces-region-partial-jsf . You can probably also use immediate="true".

Max
http://mkblog.exadel.com

[Anand Ramesh]

Have you solved it yet ?
If not,
You may need to consider using PhaseListener to deactivate page validation on

public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent arg0)

with custom code

and the phase should be

public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
return PhaseId.APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES;
}