Menu XP:Link Issue

I’m new to the 8.5 XPage environment, so pardon my stupidity if there is a simple explanation for this behavior.

I have a series of XPages built through → “Learning XPages By Declan Lynch” (it’s been really helpful).

Here’s the scenario. I have a number of xp:links in placebar control that set a sessionScope variable to “Yes”.

I have a “left menu control” that loads different views in the main content area. The “left menu control” sets this specific sessionscope variable to “No”. In this same control I have a label field that reports what the sessionScope value is.

The problem. When I click the placebar link, I see the sessionScope field always get set to “Yes”. When I click the left menu control link, sometimes it works on the first click, sometimes it takes two clicks, and sometimes it takes three clicks to work.

I’m stumped and I don’t know how to debug this issue? Has anyone else seen this, or is this user error somewhere ?

thanks in advance…

Glenn

Subject: What page of Declan Lynch’s tutorial is this scenario on?