Contextual event in reverse direction ( from child TF to parent view )

Question

Hi ,
It seems all example of Contextual events talk about mirroring input value from Parent page to Child TF running in a region and there are numerous examples out there.
What I wanted to accomplish was that an lov in a child TF triggers a contextual event and the parent TF takes the selected list of values. It needs to conduct a search based on these values and than mark the rows in a (tree)table.
What has succeeded is almost all aspects of this. I can fire the event and receive it successfully. But the problem is the the backingBean class that I create via EL is not binded to my parent pages components. The treetable component returns null.
My handler code (the handler code from the bean which you use to create the data control to listen to the cntxtual event) is almost 1:1 to as the code from the book "Oracle Fusion Developer Guide: Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and Oracle ADF Faces", Chapter 6, page 210.
public void receiveEvent(
DCBindingContainerValueChangeEvent incomingPayload){
FacesContext fctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ELContext elctx = fctx.getELContext();
Application app = fctx.getApplication();
ExpressionFactory exprFactory = app.getExpressionFactory();
ValueExpression valExpr = exprFactory.createValueExpression(
elctx,
//reference the managed bean that holds the mirror value
//property displayed in the input text field
"#{backingBeanScope.ConsumerBackingBean}",
Object.class);
ConsumerBackingBean consumer = null;
consumer = (ConsumerBackingBean)valExpr.getValue(elctx);
//get the changed attribute value from the contextual event
//payload
String newValue = (String)incomingPayload.getNewValue();
//set the new value to the backing bean property that is
//referenced by the input text field in View 3
consumer.setMirrorValue(newValue);
AdfFacesContext adffacesContext = null;
adffacesContext = AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
//partially update the text field to display the new value
adffacesContext.addPartialTarget(consumer.getMirrorTxt());
The #{backingBeanScope.ConsumerBackingBean} evaluates in my case to fine. But every component I should see as binding in the bean is null.
Since the handler is declared in the pageDef of this parent page Fragment, i assumed the last bit about it being able to get to the backing bean and hence to my components should also be possible.
If I cant refresh my components than I dont see the use of the contextual frameworks for me.

Answer 1

You should find this post useful: http://flexponential.com/2010/12/05/saving-scroll-position-between-views-in-a-mobile-flex- application/
It demonstrates one way of saving and restoring data when pushing and popping a view.