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- CommentAuthorasejua
Hello again :) this time an easy one.

It's possible to tell an action in a controller to use the same view another action uses? For example, when I call listing() in a controller, akelos loads listing.tpl and I'd like to tell filtering() to use the same listing.tpl instead of filtering.tpl

Thanks!
- CommentAuthormerindol
If I understand your problem you should use : $this->renderAction('listing');

regards.
- CommentAuthorasejua
Hello and thanks for your answer merindol.

renderAction doesn't do what I'm trying to, it calls another action inside the controller (at least that's what I think it does ^^) although after looking into AkActionController code, probably the solution is close to that.

I'll try to explain a bit better (sorry, my english it's a bit short sometimes *^^*)
I have two actions in a controller: listing() and filtering(), each one collects some (different) data but the code in both listing.tpl and filtering.tpl are the same.
I'm just curious to know if there's a way to define in filtering() that it must use listing.tpl instead the one it uses by default (filtering.tpl)

Thanks again.
- CommentAuthormerindol
Don't worry about your english, it's just fine.
renderAction is the thing you need, really.
The name "renderAction" doesn't maybe fit well with what is does : it calls the specified template to render the current action.

At the end of your filtering() action, just add : $this->renderAction('listing');

It will compute your filtering() and then use the listing.tpl.
It's not a redirection to another action. To redirect to listing() you would have to use : $this->redirectToAction('listing');

Come back here if that doesn't work.

Best regards.
- CommentAuthorasejua
I'm using this code to check, I've cleaned it up a bit tho

user_controller.php
```
class UserController extends ApplicationController
{
    var $layout = 'admin'; // I have layouts/admin.tpl with the HTML head, body, etc...
    function index()
    {
        $this->renderAction('listing');
    }
    function listing()
    {
        $this->content_title = "Listing loaded";
    }
    function filtering()
    {
        $this->content_title = "Filtering loaded";
        $this->renderAction('listing');
    }
}
```
listing.tpl
```
<div>{content_title}</div>
```
Notice that filtering.tpl exists and is empty (just has <?php ?> inside) and index.tpl doesn't exist.

When I load /user in the browser the index action takes place and "calls" listing, so I get "Listing loaded". The same happens if I load /user/listing. But when I load /user/filtering I get 'Listing loaded' too instead the expected "Filtering loaded".

So it's obvious it's always using listing.tpl, but also running the code inside listing(). That's why I thought renderAction did some kind of action redirection :) but I'm sure it's me doing something wrong, heheh...

Regards.

CommentAuthorasejua

Made it work using

$this->render(array('template'=>'listing'));

instead of

$this->renderAction('listing');

in filtering() function :)

- CommentAuthorKaste
see ticket #147

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