Looking in wrong location for Module views.

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Hello Guys,

I’ve been playing with Modules for the first time this afternoon. I’ve hit a stumbling block where it appears that the framework is looking in the parent application for the views, and not in the module, thus throwing an exception as they don’t exist:

Error Messages: Page //views/accounts/list.cfm [/Users/claudinelove/workspace/myapp/views/accounts/list.cfm] not found

The actualy path to the view for this event should be:

[/Users/claudinelove/workspace/myapp/modules/saas/views/accounts/list.cfm]

I’m sure this is just some misconfiguration on my part but I’d really appreciate some help.

If you need any more information then let me know.

Thanks,

Rob

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Rob,

What is your viewParentLookup setting set to?

Here is the order of discovery….

viewParentLookup = true

  1. Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myModule/myView.cfm)
  2. Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myView.cfm)
  3. Module view (e.g. /modules/myModule/views/myView.cfm)
  4. Default view discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/views/myView.cfm)

viewParentLookup = false

  1. Module view (e.g. /modules/myModule/views/myView.cfm)
  2. Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myModule/myView.cfm)
  3. Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myView.cfm)
  4. Default view discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/views/myView.cfm)

Also, if you setting a view using setView(), what are you setting?

Curt Gratz

Computer Know How

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Hi Curt,

Thanks for clarifying that. It helped me spot the problem.

Basically I had a typo in my directory name in /modules/saas/acounts/list.cfm which I hadn't spotted.

So the framework didn't find the view within the module, skipped up a level to look in the app and couldn't find one there either, so through the exception.

I wonder if it's possible for the framework to throw a more descriptive error which says it was unable to find the view in either of the places it looked, rather than just stating the last place it looked.

Robert

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You need to open up the moduleConfig.cfc and changed the lookup for views and layouts to false.

Regards,

Andrew Scott

http://www.andyscott.id.au/