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Sorry if this is obvious but I haven't figured it ...

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 6:32 PM

Sorry if this is obvious but I haven't figured it out. One our subsystem bubbles up to the default layout, in that layout a few views are called. The subsystem complain the views cannot be found, is this a bad design? Should the default layout not have views included? Also, is it possible to call a view from the main app in a subsystem? Thanks!

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 6:44 PM

Whether or not a layout should contain views, I think would depend on the situation. Is there conditional logic that determines whether or not the views are loaded/rendered? As for the error about the views not being found - you might need to specify the main subsystem as a prefix to the view name within the layout so that they can be found no matter the context. Could you share a snippet of the layout code where the views are called?

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 6:53 PM

Thanks for the replay! The layout is quite basic and works fine when in the main system.

<!--- START BODY CONTAINER --->

<div id="body_container">  <cfinclude template="mod_header.cfm"> #view('fragments/mod_header')#

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 6:55 PM

I keep sending premature, my apologies. What is considered the main subsystem? I just introduced the first subsystem, prior we did not use any so everything was at the root of the app. This subsystem view is the first that will use the default layout, and it worked before moving it into a subsystem

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 6:58 PM

I think that the

view('fragments/mod_header')

might just need a prefix on the relative path. Try

view('views/fragments/mod_header')

. If that doesn't work, maybe

view('main/views/fragments/mod_header')

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 6:58 PM

oops that cfinclude is commented out in the real code I accidently removed the comment when pasting

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 6:59 PM

Actually, before trying that, can you share what your application folder structure looks like?

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 7:02 PM

Sure...

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 7:03 PM

so is "fragments" a folder under the main app's "views" folder?

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 7:04 PM

Yes

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 7:05 PM

OK. Try the suggestions about adding some more path info I sent above.

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 7:10 PM

Tried with and without 'main' in the path. no luck

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 7:11 PM

so main is a folder in views, that messing with it maybe?

cfvonner

05/05/2023, 7:12 PM

yes, could be. I moved my application to ColdBox some time ago, but I'm going to dig back in and see how I handled this. Give me a few minutes.

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cfvonner

05/05/2023, 7:17 PM

Try this:

view(':fragments/mod_header')

. The colon prefix tells FW/1 that it needs to look in the main application, not in the current or other subsystem.

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cfvonner

05/05/2023, 7:19 PM

FYI, you can also load views from other subsystems that way too. So if you are in a

foo

subsystem and want to call a view in the

bar

subsystem, you can do

view('bar:myBarView')

Rich Symons

05/05/2023, 7:23 PM

That was it! Thanks so much!

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