SEAM Howto - end conversation and go back to the previous page

In web application it is often desirable to provide a "Cancel" button in a function area which will redirect the user back to the page they come from.

In SEAM if the function area is wrapped by a conversation, then there are two ways to archive this navigation effect, depending on whether or not you need to do clean up when ending the conversion.

If there is no clean up to be done, you can use s:link or s:button as shown in the example below. The action is invoked first. The view attribute is rendered if redirect did not happen after the action invocation.
<br /><s:button value="Cancel" action="#{conversation.endAndRedirect}" view="/defaultPage.xhtml"></s:button><br />
If there is clean up to be done, you can archive this in pages.xml file with a navigation hack.

In your pages.xml:
<br /><navigation from-action="#{backingBean.cleanup}" evaluate="#{conversation.endAndRedirect}"><br /> <rule outcome="false"><br /> <redirect id="/defaultPage.xhtml"></redirect><br /> </rule><br /></navigation><br />