Firstly I was able to get the previous url using the client side javascript document.referrer. 

 

I then started to run into an issue where I could display this value in an alert box, but could not redirect to it using location.href. It turns out that because I had been switching between SSJS and CSJS in the same button trying different options (though not at the same time) I needed to set the event to No submission because it was still trying to run SSJS events, even though there were no actions specified, and this was overriding my CSJS redirect. 

 Rebecca,

 

I'm a huge fan of using multiple databases to seperate my data.  I'm not sure from your post if you are, but I don't recommend using multiple databases to house your xpages source code. If you can you should try and keep that in the same database.   

 

Just a thought. 

 I personally use navigation rules, based on sessionScope variables, and the breadcrumbs. For example:

 

previousStep = sessionScope.breadCrumbLevel - 1;

previousStep2 = sessionScope.breadCrumbLevel - 2;

previousStep3 = sessionScope.breadCrumbLevel - 3;

previousStep4 = sessionScope.breadCrumbLevel - 4;

sessionCommand = "breadCrumbLink" + previousStep.toString();

sessionCommand2 = "breadCrumbLink" + previousStep2.toString();

sessionCommand3 = "breadCrumbLink" + previousStep3.toString();

sessionCommand4 = "breadCrumbLink" + previousStep4.toString();

if (sessionScope.get(sessionCommand) != ""){

return sessionScope.get(sessionCommand)

} else if (sessionScope.get(sessionCommand2) != ""){

return sessionScope.get(sessionCommand2)

} else if (sessionScope.get(sessionCommand3) != ""){

return sessionScope.get(sessionCommand3)

} else if (sessionScope.get(sessionCommand4) != ""){

return sessionScope.get(sessionCommand4)

}

{

return "/XP_Home.xsp"

}