Hyperlink action not called from within table

Question

I have two pages. Page1 has a table bound to a database listing all of the records in a customer table. Page2 has controls on it to display the details of a single customer record.
On Page1 in the table I have made the record ID column a hyperlink. I want to save this selected ID for use on the page that the hyperlink points to. To accomplish this I added a property to my request bean. (Is this a good idea or does every page have its own request bean?) Anyway, I put code in my hyperlink1_action() method to save the current rowkey to my request bean.
On Page2 in my prerender() method I am planning to jump to the rowkey stored in my request bean.
It appears that my hyperlink1_action() method is never called. I have placed a breakpoint inside that method and the debugger never stops there. I have also placed a breakpoint within the prerender() method of Page2 and the debugger does stop there and I find that I have a null value stored in my request bean.
Any insights? Feel free to speak up if I'm going about this the wrong way. I am new to Java Studio Creator and web development (previous Java experience was standalone-non-web apps).
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Below is an excerpt from the JSP file defining the table that contains the column with a hyperlink:
<ui:tableRowGroup binding="#{Page1.tableRowGroup2}" id="tableRowGroup2" rows="5"
     sourceData="#{Page1.tblcustomerDataProvider}" sourceVar="currentRow">
     <ui:tableColumn binding="#{Page1.tcolCustomerId}" headerText="Id" id="tcolCustomerId" sort="tblcustomer.lngCustomerId">
          <ui:hyperlink action="#{Page1.hyperlink1_action}" binding="#{Page1.hyperlink1}" id="hyperlink1" immediate="true"
               text="#{currentRow.value['tblcustomer.lngCustomerId']}" url="/faces/Customer.jsp"/>
     </ui:tableColumn>Below is the definition of the hyperlink1_action() method that never seems to be called.
    public String hyperlink1_action() {
        // Find out what row was clicked
        RowKey rowkey = tblcustomerDataProvider.getCursorRow();
        // Save Customer Id so detail page knows what product to
        // provide detail info for
        getRequestBean1().setCurrentCustomer(rowkey);
        // Go to the detail page for that product's type
        return "case1";
    }I did not have the immediate property checked, so I tried checking it and saw no change. I have the url set to point at another page and clicking on a column with the URL appears to work fine, the specified page is opened.
I do not have any virtual forms defined.
Perhaps the function is called and I'm just not seeing any evidence of it. I have tried adding System.out.print statements but don't see my text in the out put window. I have tried adding break-points to the hyperlink funciton but the debugger does not stop.
As far as the code I have pasted above for the hyperlink, it very well could be flawed (or the wrong way to go about what I am trying to accomplish) but as far as I know it has never been executed.