Execute button on page from a seperate page

Question

I have a popup page with checkboxes and a submit button. When the user clicks submit, i need an execute button on the page that called the popup window to fire.. is this possible?

Answer 1

OK: since you want to run a method that is in the backing bean of another page you could do the following: create a managed session scope bean which you can call from the backing bean of the dialog page, or...
...you could create a common method in a class which both of your backing beans extend from... I have one or more backing bean bases that I extend from so that I can call the same method.
Here is a way you can get at another bean from a backing bean if you do not know how to do that:
So if your ActionListener property on the command button in the dialog windown for the Save button or whatever you are calling it called the following method in the local backing bean:
public void onSaveButtonPress(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
CommonMB lCommonMB = (CommonMB)EL.get("#{CommonMB}");
lCommonMB.theMethodYouWantedToCall();
If you defined CommonMB as a session managed bean that had your target method "theMethodYouWantedToCall()" then you could call this method from both the button in the dialog and the button on the calling page. Right? Would this work for you?
Where EL.get is defined as follows (this is more Steve Muench code BTW):
public class EL {
public static boolean test(String booleanExpr) {
return Boolean.TRUE.equals(get(booleanExpr));
public static String getAsString(String expr) {
return (String)get(expr);
public static Object get(String expr) {
FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ValueBinding vb = fc.getApplication().createValueBinding(expr);
Object lReturn;
lReturn = vb.getValue(fc);
return lReturn;
public static void set(String expr, Object value) {
FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ValueBinding vb = fc.getApplication().createValueBinding(expr);
vb.setValue(fc,value);
}