I already have an if navigation rule in my pages.xml file But this only seems to be evaluated after the login button is pressed.

    <page view-id="/home.xhtml">
        <navigation>
            <rule if="#{userSession.loggedIn}">
                <redirect view-id="/workspace.xhtml"/>
            </rule>
        </navigation>
    </page>

A page action itself may be executed at start, but how is possible to initiate a conversation, save some Data in this conversation and redirect to workspace.xhtml if the session is already open.

I tried a solution with a page action. But how can a page action create a new conversation only if the user already has a session and then perform a redirect?

My current solution is to include javascript that will click the login button on the first page if the user already logged in.

I was also wondering this myself. did you solve this. I actually tried to have my action throw an exception that should have been caught and redirected by my exception handler. Originally my login page worked and rendered fine...once I added the code to throw exception in redirect, the login page no longer works for someone not logged in. when it tries to render, I get @In attribute requires non-null value: login.user which is really funny because the action has nothing to do with the login component...ie. no changes to login component are made. I just remove the action and it works again, put back the action and the navigation component fails.

What version of Seam? This sounds like a bug in exception handling.