Partially update "myself"

I have a scenario where I would like to run some code on the click of a view column (this is set as a link) which will then refresh the view column itself so that the PageURL picks up a scoped variable and the link takes me to the correct document

This all works fine until my view is within a repeater. I select the viewcolumn as the element to partially refresh but at run time, I get an error saying “No element to submit with id view:_id1:…” where the id in the error message is the one I know I can get using getClientId(viewname)

My question is…can I somehow tell the partial refresh event to use the full id of the element at runtime?

Mike