Page data does not load with goButton? (new window of identical page)

Question

Hi guys. I ran into a problem. Essentially, I need to print a .jsff page but before I do, I have to alter its format a little bit. The solution I decided to use was to create a new .jspx page containing almost the exact same content. I even copied the data bindings and everything. Finally, I created a goButton on my original page like so:
<af:goButton text="Print as BOSSMON" destination="SubmitPrint.jspx?org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.agent.email=true"
                    targetFrame="_blank">
</af:goButton>This opens my page nicely in the format I want. But...there is no data on the page! It just opens a frame of the page. Can someone help me resolve this?
Otherwise, is there any other technique I could use to accomplish my goal?

Answer 1

Hi guys. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I finally got a working solution, something totally different from the suggestions.
My goal was to print a .jsff page nicely. But before I could do that, I needed to modify some data on the page. I also wanted to do this in as few clicks as possible. I tried the goButton technique but the binding data would not load. I couldnt figure out why.
Nonetheless, I finally managed to make my own version (albeit, not that neat!). I accomplished this by essentially making a template which automatically opens in showprintablebehavior format. I tried to follow a bunch of online tutorials/blogs but nothing worked for me. Here are the steps I used:
1) Creating a new .jspx page.
2) Copy the entire source of the .jsff page (the one which needs to be printed) into our new template .jspx page. (do have to modify the beginning parts by adding <af:document> <af:form> etc)
3) Create a pageDef for the template page and copy the entire pageDef as well (do have to change the name of the pagedef)
4) Modify your print template to your liking.
5) Add a taskflow rule that links the original .jsff page to the new template page
6) Add a commandButton on the original .jsff page which opens this printing page in a new window (remember to use "dialog:....."). Here is mine:
<af:commandButton text="Open Printer Friendly Version" id="printer_popup" action="dialog:edit_print" useWindow="true"
                              windowEmbedStyle="window" inlineStyle="display:block;"
                              windowHeight="100" windowWidth="100">
</af:commandButton>7) Now, in the printing template page, add a command button which simply has the showprintablebehaviour tag within it as well as a client listener to invoke some javascript. Here is what I used:
<af:commandButton text="Printer Page" id="sha_print">
    <af:clientListener method="do_loading" type="focus"/>
    <af:showPrintablePageBehavior/>
</af:commandButton>8) In the beginning of this page, you will have an <af:document> tag. Modify it so it sets focus to our print button above when the page loads. Like so:
<af:document id="d2" initialFocusId="sha_print">9) Now add a resource tag to your page which has the "do_loading" javascript method.
<f:facet name="metaContainer">
    <af:resource type="javascript">
          function do_loading(event) {
              var target = document.getElementById('sha_print');
              target.click();
              top.close();
              //alert("got focus sir!");
    </af:resource>
</f:facet>Thats it! What this does is when you click on the command button to open the printer template, our template page opens but as it opens, it automatically sets focus to the printer button using the document tag. The printer button has a listener which activates when it receives focus (in our case, as soon as the page loads). This listener invokes the javascript method, which progamatically clicks the printer button and closes this window. What your left with is a printer friendly page of your modified page!
All the data is present there too!
If anyone has any questions/comments, please do ask.