Component actions are great when your page has state. Almost anything that involves a form submission works much more simply and fluidly as a component action (links that look like 1.2.3.4). Component actions let you But 90% of the pages on your site are going to be read-only. For a read-only page, a direct action make much more sense.

Unless there was a <FORM> tag involved, you probably don’t need a component action.