How to Fix Error duplicate Id for a component selectParent

This error appears in in some projects created with seam 2 when you try to create or edit a record in the web ui. It seems to be a bug.

You need to modify one line in either your seam-home/seam-gen/view/edit.page.xml.ftl or seam-home/seam-gen/view/edit.xhtml.ftl depending on your version of seam.

open up the file and change this line:

to

Then Re-Run ./seam generate and ./seam explode

Restart jboss and everything should be working

The final code chunk should look like this: