NavigationMenu and active state across

[Safurudin Mahic]

I have a sample navigationmenu implemented on my page;
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               <t:panelNavigation2 id="nav1" layout="list" 
itemClass="mypage"
                   activeItemClass="selected" openItemClass="selected">
                   <t:navigationMenuItems 
value="#{navMenu.navigationItems}" />
               </t:panelNavigation2>

and the backing bean

   public NavigationMenu() {
       navigationItems = new ArrayList<NavigationMenuItem>();
       navigationItems.add(new NavigationMenuItem("Dashboard", 
"dashboard"));
       navigationItems.add(new NavigationMenuItem("Customers", 
"customers"));
       navigationItems.add(new NavigationMenuItem("Groups", "groups"));
       for (NavigationMenuItem n : navigationItems) {
           n.setActionListener("#{navMenu.actionListener}");
       }
   }

   public List getNavigationItems() {
       return navigationItems;
   }


   public void actionListener(ActionEvent event) {
       if (event.getComponent() instanceof HtmlCommandNavigationItem) {
           log.info("ActionListener: "
                   + ((HtmlCommandNavigationItem) event.getComponent())
                           .getValue());
           selectedItem = (HtmlCommandNavigationItem) event.getComponent();
           selectedItem.setActive(true);
       }
   }
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My problem is when I want to invoke some of the actions on the 
navigation menu -
If I define the navigationrule for the "dashboard" action without redirect,
   <navigation-rule>
       <navigation-case>
           <from-outcome>dashboard</from-outcome>
           <to-view-id>/dashboard.xhtml</to-view-id>
       </navigation-case>
   </navigation-rule>

the panelnavigation correctly renders the selected active item on the menu.

But if I put redirect in the navigationrules, the active item
is not rendered. How would I get the active navigation item to be 
rendered "active" across redirects? Is this the same problem
as the <h:message> not being able to render messages across redirects?

Thanks,
Safurudin