Affects: Release Notes
project_key: JBEPP

This issue was originally raised in the Portlet Bridge jira https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PBR-263.

The window state doesn't seem to be functioning correctly when using Richfaces strategy. The same issue doesn't occur if disable Richfaces by removing Richfaces jars and settings in the deployment descriptors.

You can find the test WARs that could demonstrate the issue from https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PBR-263. There are two WARs attached there.
The jsfWindowStateTest.war is a pure jsf application without Richfaces and works fine without issue. The RFPortletTest.war is a Richfaces application which runs into this issue. The java source codes are included in the WEB-INF/classes folders.

There are 3 pages(page1, page2 and page3) in the tests. If I go from page1 to page2 by setting the window state as MAXIMIZED, it works well to make it MAXIMIZED on the page2. Then I set the window state as NORMAL or MINIMIZED to navigate to page3. However, the page3 stays MAXIMIZED. This could be demonstrated more clearly by adding two or more portlets to the same page. The MAXIMIZED portlet will be showing on the page and the other pages are invisible. If you refresh the page it shows the expected window state, NORMAL or MINIMIZED.

I'm using the following code to set the window state.

javax.faces.context.FacesContext context = javax.faces.context.FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
javax.portlet.PortletResponse response = (javax.portlet.PortletResponse) context.getExternalContext().getResponse();
javax.portlet.ActionResponse actionResponse = (javax.portlet.ActionResponse) response;
try {
if("maxmized".equalsIgnoreCase(this.windowState)) { actionResponse.setWindowState(javax.portlet.WindowState.MAXIMIZED); }
else if("normal".equalsIgnoreCase(this.windowState)) { actionResponse.setWindowState(javax.portlet.WindowState.NORMAL); }
else if("minimized".equalsIgnoreCase(this.windowState)) { actionResponse.setWindowState(javax.portlet.WindowState.MINIMIZED); }

} catch (javax.portlet.WindowStateException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }

I also tried to append the parameter javax.portlet.faces.WindowState to the navigation url but got the same outcome.
for example:
<navigation-rule>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>page1</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/pages/page1.xhtml?javax.portlet.faces.WindowState=minimized</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>