This should work as expected so long as the buttons on the filterTable paginator are using partialSubmit=true.

The filterTable is using a standard ice:dataPaginator, for pagination, there is nothing unique to the filterTable in the usage of the links in the paginator. So, this is an ice:dataPaginator issue.

I tested putting partialSubmit="true" on the ice:form containing these elements and this will make the buttons in the paginator perform a partialSubmit, however it did not appear to make the number links perform a partialSubmit.

I'm assuming this issue hasn't come up before because a form used for input and a dataTable would typically be nested in separate ice:form tags, which would follow best practices.

I investigated to see if there was an issue with the dataPaginator component. I found that the issue was the same with this component but there is a quick and simple workaround. Setting the immediate=true attribute on the dataPaginator resolved the issue. Is this something that could/should be added to the dataPaginator in the filterTable example?