El Expression for getting the substring example : rendered="#{fn:substring(pageFlowScope.Id,0,2) eq '01'}" following expression gives you the substring of variable Id(which is in pageflowscope) "#{ fn:substring(pageFlowScope.Id,0,2) eq '01'}" for this you need to import the following file in your .jsff page xmlns:fn=" http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions "
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