Setting the value of a hidden field in a Visual Web jsf page

Question

Hey All,
I am new to jsf and need some help with the following. I have written a method in the java portion of the jsf page that will get the selection(s) from a listbox and return them as a string. I need to assign the value of that string to a hidden field in the jsp portion of the page, so that I can pass the string as a parameter to a servlet. I have tried the following code in the "button_action", in the java portion of the jsf page, to assign the value of the string, returned from method, to the hidden field:
hiddenField.setValue(string);
This is not working. Any and all help on this matter is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here is the tag for the hidden field when the "hidden field" component is added from the pallette, I addded the "value" and "id". The name of the class is ReportStandard, which extends the AbstractPageBean.
<webuijsf:hiddenField binding="#{ReportStandard.utilSelHF}" id="utilSelHF" value="#{ReportStandard.utilParams}"/>This is how I am calling the hidden field in the servlet:
utils = request.getParameter("form1:utilSelHF_field");Here is the code for the button_action:
public String runReport_button_action() {
       this.utilParams = get_utilSelection();
       return "sRptrslts";
}