JSF preRenderView not triggered when navigating to page without using Redirect

Question

I have created a preRender method to be called when the user navigate to that specific page, I use:

<f:metadata>
    <f:event listener="#{targetClass.prerender()}"
        type="preRenderView">
    </f:event>
</f:metadata>

but the problem is that this method is not being called when I navigate to this page, unless I use

<redirect />

in the faces-config.xml file. But, I don't want to use redirect, so the url always point to the login page.

Thank you.