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Layout/View Discovery

The default order of overrides ColdBox offers is both viewParentLookup & layoutParentLookup to true. This means that if the layout or view requested to be rendered by a module exists in the overrides section of the host application, then the host application's layout or view will be rendered instead. Let's investigate the order of discover:
viewParentLookup = true
  1. 1.
    Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myModule/myView.cfm)
  2. 2.
    Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myView.cfm)
  3. 3.
    Module view (e.g. /modules/myModule/views/myView.cfm)
  4. 4.
    Default view discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/views/myView.cfm)
viewParentLookup = false
  1. 1.
    Module view (e.g. /modules/myModule/views/myView.cfm)
  2. 2.
    Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myModule/myView.cfm)
  3. 3.
    Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/views/modules/myView.cfm)
  4. 4.
    Default view discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/views/myView.cfm)
layoutParentLookup = true
  1. 1.
    Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/modules/myModule/myLayout.cfm)
  2. 2.
    Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/modules/myLayout.cfm)
  3. 3.
    Module layout (e.g. /modules/myModule/layouts/myLayout.cfm)
  4. 4.
    Default layout discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/Default.cfm)
layoutParentLookup = false 1. Module layout (e.g. /modules/myModule/layouts/myLayouts.cfm) 2. Host override module specific (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/modules/myModule/myLayout.cfm) 3. Host override common (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/modules/myLayout.cfm) 4. Default layout discovery from host (e.g. {HOST}/layouts/Default.cfm)
Let's do some real examples, I am building a simple module with 1 layout and 1 view. Here is my directory structure for them:
/simpleModule
+ layouts
+ main.cfm
+ views
+ simple
+ index.cfm
Now, in my handler code I just want to render the view by using our typical event.setView() method calls or implicit views.
// In a handler called simple.cfc
component{
function index(event){
// DO SOME CODE HERE
// Set the view to render with a layout
event.setView(view='simple/index',layout="main");
}
}