Separating show REQUEST from accept REQUEST

Question

I have some page components that are rendered conditionally upon REQUEST=FOO.
When this page is submitted, I would like some after-submit components (computations, branches, processes, etc) to be conditional upon that same REQUEST=FOO.
But, when the page is submitted, REQUEST is set to the page component (button or item) that submits the page.
My initial REQUEST=FOO from when the page was rendered is "lost".
Any way to keep track of the initial request used when rendering the page?
Thanks

Answer 1

Bill - The request value is available to after-submit elements on the page as a result of a button or standard tab submitting the page. During "show" processing, however, the request value is usually null. It has a value only if the URL used to request the page has a value in the request field e.g.,
...f?p=100:1:84356773300033228:DIST_SEARCH::NO::P1_ITEM:foo
You can make this happen by putting the request value in the branch definition if the branch type results in a URL redirect, as most do.
Scott