Submit values despite of immediate="true"

Question

Hi,
This is my first try to post a question. So please don't be angry with me if my post isn't perfekt. :-)
I have a JSP with serveral inputText-fields. Each field is required and has a lick to a special search-JSP. To release the link without having the input-fields validated at this moment I had to add the attibute immediate="true". If I fill the input-field while choosing a value from the search-JSP the value will be submitted to the bean. Now my Problem: If I fill the first field without searching with the Link an then try to fill the second field while releasing the link, the first value disappears. (because of the attribute immediate it is not going to be submitted). Is there a possibility to submit this value despite of immediate="true".
I tried to add <f:param> to the link. This seems a possibility. But it could be that I have up to six input-field like this. In this case I habe to sumbit 5 values and this six times. That seems too much. And I hope there is another way to do it.
To clarify my problem here is a reduced and simplified part of my code:
<h:panelGroup>
     <h:outputText value="Field1" />
     <h:commandLink value="Search" action="#{pc_Test.executeSearch1}" immediate="true" />
     <h:inputText id="field1" value="#{pc_Test.field1}" required="true" />
     <h:message for="field1" />
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup>
     <h:outputText value="Field2" />
     <h:commandLink value="Search" action="#{pc_Test.executeSearch2}" immediate="true" />
     <h:inputText id="field2" value="#{pc_Test.field2}" required="true" />
     <h:message for="field2" />
</h:panelGroup>At the end of the JSP is the submit-Button. If this is clickes the fields will be validated.
I hope you can help me.
Thanx in advance.
Steffi

Answer 1

The immediate="true" attribute in the UICommand will skip under each the update model values phase.
You may find this article useful to get some more insights in the JSF lifecycle:
http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/09/debug-jsf-lifecycle.html